As the chart also shows, excluding migrants, the urban unemployment rate fell from 11.1% to 6.7%.

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This confirmed that the urban unemployment rate, including migrant workers, had indeed fallen from 7.3% in 2002 to 4.4% in 2005 (see chart).

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Japan has always had an unusually low unemployment rate, never hitting over 5.3% partly because of its policy of guaranteed employment in urban areas that forces workers to share jobs to keep more people employed.

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