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7-Eleven showcases its newest robots for cleaning, stocking, and customer service
- Master Blaster
Sep 12, 2025 - Tweet
Can going robotic ease convenience stores’ profitability blues?
- Japan
- (7-Eleven • business • convenience stores • employment • Family mart • labor shortage • Lawson • robots)
As shorts are increasingly allowed in the Japanese workplace, could hairy legs be harassment?
- Master Blaster
Aug 26, 2025
It’s a hairy situation to say the least.
- Japan
- (business • employment • harassment • law • leg hair • power harassment • shorts • society • summer • working in Japan)
Japanese guitar maker Fernandes declares bankruptcy due to plummeting sales
- Master Blaster
Jul 19, 2025
The patch cable has been pulled.
- Japan
- (bankruptcy • bass • Burny • business • Fernandes • guitars • music • musical instruments)
Game of Jenga filled with high-grade whiskey goes on sale in Japan for nearly 2 million yen
- Master Blaster
Jul 9, 2025
You take a shot from the bottom and put it on top.
- Japan
- (alcohol • bottlers • business • Janga • Jenga • Whiskey • Zeus Janga Japanese Whiskey 25 Years)
Fuji TV president to lean heavily into anime production to revive beleaguered network
- Master Blaster
Jun 26, 2025
Is anime the answer or just the only answer he knows?
- Japan
- (anime • business • Dalton Investment • Fuji TV • Kenji Shimizu • Masahiro Nakai • scandals • television • variety shows)
Motorized kick scooter violations nearly double the number of motorized kick scooters in Japan
- Master Blaster
Jun 20, 2025
Everyone seems to be scooting themselves right into trouble.
- Japan
- (business • kick scooters • law • roads • scooters • traffic • traffic violations • transportation • vehicles)
Why you should be worried if someone calls you “Uehara-san” in the Japanese workplace
- Master Blaster
Jun 12, 2025
You got a lot of nerve calling me Mr. Uehara!
- Japan
- (business • culture • employment • harassment • Japanese language • Japanese names • slang • society • work)
“Matcha crisis” emerges as the world falls in love with powdered green tea
- Master Blaster
Jun 3, 2025
A matcha crisis isn’t fun and games like Time Crisis. It’s hard and grueling like Dino Crisis.
- Japan
- (business • exports • food • food production • green tea • international trade • matcha)
Mr. Sato helps his colleague with a serious work performance issue
- Master Blaster
Apr 27, 2025
When it comes to humor, Mr. Sato is deadly serious.
- Japan
- (business • comedy • employee evaluation • funny faces • Masanuki Sunakoma • Mr. Sato • senbero)
Yakuza member arrested for renting a car once in 2022
- Master Blaster
Apr 21, 2025
Crime does pay but gets arrested for it.
- Japan
- (business • car rental • contracts • crime • fraud • Organized Crime Exclusion Ordinances • police • Saitama • yakuza)
Bontan Ame: the candy that survived 100 years of leaks, bombings, censorship, and floods
- Master Blaster
Feb 15, 2025
You can’t keep a good candy down.
- Japan
- (Bontan Ame • business • candy • food • history • Hyoroku Mochi • Kagoshima • Seika Foods)
Why are there so many Hokkaido food fairs in Japanese department stores these days?
- Master Blaster
Dec 31, 2024
Holy cow, Hokkaido!
Furikake rice seasoning sales are soaring, which is bad news for Japan as a whole
- Master Blaster
Dec 2, 2024
Bad news for everyone over 10 in Japan at least.
Japan’s workplace drinking party communication is unnecessary, says majority of workers in survey
- Casey Baseel
Nov 27, 2024
A long-standing part of Japanese work culture may have passed the tipping/tipple point, especially in women’s eyes.
- Japan
- (business • COK • drinking parties • nominication • society • survey • working in Japan)
Japanese job-hunters reportedly dismayed by requests for “photos showing who you are as a person”
- Master Blaster
Oct 30, 2024
Anything’s OK, just nothing too natural, or unnatural, or unflattering, or revealing, or stodgy… but, you know, anything is OK.
- Japan
- (anatarashii shashin • business • job hunting • photographs • resumes • society • weird)
Japanese clothing companies adopt fifth “Intense Heat” season because summer is too long
- Master Blaster
Sep 16, 2024
There are five seasons in Japan.
- Japan
- (business • clothing • fashion • five seasons • four seasons • Intense Heat • summer • weather)
What happens when you freeze your boss’s glasses in a block of ice?
- Master Blaster
Aug 12, 2024
Results may vary.
- Japan
- (business • friendship • glasses • ice • Seiji Nakazawa • summer • Toyotomi Hideyoshi • Yoshio)
Studio Ghibli releases My Neighbour Totoro neckties in Japan
- Oona McGee
Jun 16, 2024
Business up top, anime secrets down bottom.
- Japan
- (accessories • anime • business • business wear • clothes • cute • Donguri Kyowakoku • fashion • Hayao Miyazaki • My Neighbor Totoro • neckties • shop • Studio Ghibli • ties • Totoro • working in Japan)
Japanese ramen restaurants under pressure from new yen banknotes
- Master Blaster
Apr 23, 2024
Times are tougher than undercooked noodles.
- Japan
- (banknotes • bills • business • currency • food • ramen • restaurants • vending machines)
Japanese burger chain Mos Burger starting record label for musician fast food workers
- Master Blaster
Apr 6, 2024
Would you like some funk with that?
- Japan
- (business • fast food • food • hamburgers • Mos Burger • Mos Records • music • weird)
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