In Japan, a scramble for new workers disrupts traditional hiring

TOKYO(Reuters) - It's a rite of spring in Japan: Major corporations hire fresh university graduates en masse every April, starting them all at the same salary with assurances of rising pay and lifetime employment.But lately, some companies, including Rakuten , SoftBank and Line Corp , are breaking with that tradition, signing up new employees with coveted technical skills months earlier - and paying them more than other new recruits.As competition for workers grows in Japan's shrinking labour..