[00:00.10]Unemployment in Japan rose to 5.7% in July,
[00:05.54]the highest figure since the Second World War.
[00:08.07]The raise came as companies laid off workers because of the world recession.
[00:12.05]The new figures come early days before the general election in Japan.
[00:16.01]Our correspondent Roland Buerk reports from Tokyo.
[00:19.04]The state of Japan’s economy is the key issue inthe election campaign.
[00:23.94]So use of the unemployment rates has risen to the 5.7% is ablow for the Prime Minister Taro Aso.
[00:30.76]Opinion poll shows his liberal democratic party was already on course for defeat on Sunday foronly these condtime in more than 50 years.
[00:39.08]3,590,000 Japanese were out of working in July,，
[00:44.25]over a million more than a year ago.
[00:46.61]Japan’s crossing recession is officially over
[00:49.64]but the benefits yet to be felt by families andworkers