job seekers attend orientation sessions at company booths during a job fair held for fresh graduates in tokyo japan march 20 2016 reutersyuya shino tokyo may 31 reuters  japans jobless rate fell to 25 in april while the availability of jobs increased government data showed on tuesday the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was lower than the 26 reported for march which was also the median forecast for april in a reuters poll of economists the jobstoapplicants ratio was 123 in april labour ministry data showed in line with a reuters poll forecast and rising 001 point from the previous months 122 for a table on the data go to the internal affairs ministrys website httpwwwstatgojpenglishdataroudouindexhtm reporting by kentaro sugiyama writing by kantaro komiya editing by muralikumar anantharaman