This article provides an overview of Japanese labor studies conducted since the 2000s; it particularly focuses on studies dealing with women’s work and non-standard employment. By reviewing these studies, the article aims to show how the Japanese employment system creates and maintains economic disparities between men and women and between different employment statuses. First, a review of the literature on women’s labor indicates that the Japanese employment system is discriminatory toward women. Specifically, the article finds that Japan’s long-term employment and seniority-based systems are preventing women from developing their careers. Next, the article reviews research on non-standard employment with a focus on disparities between standard and non-standard workers and explains how differences in human resource development policies have created and maintained large discrepancies between employment statuses. Therefore, the study concludes that the established Japanese employment system causes large disparities between men and women, and in employment statuses.

本文概述了自2000年代以来进行的日本劳工研究。它特别侧重于处理妇女工作和非正规就业的研究。通过回顾这些研究，本文旨在说明日本的就业体系如何造成并维持男女之间以及不同就业状况之间的经济差异。首先，对有关妇女劳动的文献的回顾表明，日本的就业制度对妇女具有歧视性。具体而言，该文章发现，日本的长期就业和基于资历的体系正在阻止女性发展职业。下一个，本文回顾了有关非标准就业的研究，重点是标准工人与非标准工人之间的差异，并解释了人力资源开发政策的差异如何造成并维持就业状况之间的巨大差异。因此，该研究得出的结论是，已建立的日本就业制度导致男女之间以及就业状况方面的巨大差异。