JAL New Employee Welcoming Ceremony

Japan Airlines Co. (JAL) group companies’ new employees pose for photographs while holding paper planes during a welcoming ceremony at the company’s hangar near Haneda Airport in Tokyo, Japan, on Monday, April 1, 2013. Japan’s jobless rate dropped to 4.2 percent in January from 4.3 percent in December in an indication that newly elected Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s drive to boost the economy with anti-deflation policies may be paying off. Photographer: Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg