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Unemployment in Japan rose to 5.7% in July, |
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the highest figure since the Second World War. |
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The raise came as companies laid off workers because of the world recession. |
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The new figures come early days before the general election in Japan. |
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Our correspondent Roland Buerk reports from Tokyo. |
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The state of Japan’s economy is the key issue inthe election campaign. |
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So use of the unemployment rates has risen to the 5.7% is ablow for the Prime Minister Taro Aso. |
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Opinion poll shows his liberal democratic party was already on course for defeat on Sunday foronly these condtime in more than 50 years. |
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3,590,000 Japanese were out of working in July,， |
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over a million more than a year ago. |
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Japan’s crossing recession is officially over |
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but the benefits yet to be felt by families andworkers |
