Unemployment rates in the US and Japan between March 1993 and March 1999

Question

The line graph illustrates the percentage of the work force that is unemployed in the US and Japan during 7 years from March 93.It is obvious that the highest unemployment rate was in the US , at the same time the lowest one was in the Japan.

First and foremost, there was a gradual decrease in unemployment rate in the US of 2% at the begining of the survey  period to March 98. After that, this figure fluctuated trivially around 5% until March 99.

Moving on to Japan, starting increase gradually from 2.5% to 4% till the end of 95.Then it varied insignificantly between 4% to 4.5% throughout more than 2 years later. The percentage which was unemployed rose a little by 0.5% in one year from March 98.

In conclusion, there were clear trends and continuosly vast changes in unemployment rate in 2 countries that were researched in the survey for over a half decade : a rise trend in the US and a drop trend in Japan.