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Japanese convenience store praised for low-tech anti-coronavirus system
- Oona McGee
Apr 8, 2020 - Tweet
Unusual idea to protect staff and customers during a state of emergency might just work.
- Japan
- (combini • convenience stores • coronavirus • COVID-19 • customers • kombini • konbini • shopping • working in Japan)
The customers Japanese convenience store clerks hate the most
- Oona McGee
Apr 7, 2020
How to avoid being that customer staff can’t stand.
- Japan
- (combini • convenience stores • customers • kombini • konbini • shopping • working in Japan)
How is Japan coping with telecommuting? Survey asks for the good and bad of working from home
- Casey Baseel
Mar 30, 2020
The coronavirus outbreak is shaking up how Japan works, but is the shaking too hard?
- Japan
- (COK • coronavirus • coronavirus outbreak • society • telecommuting • teleworking • working from home • working in Japan)
No gender, photo, or first name – Japanese company makes major shakeup to job application forms
- Casey Baseel
Mar 12, 2020
In Japan, looking for a job usually means snapping a photo, but not at this company.
- Japan
- (gender • job hunting • Lux • society • Unilever Japan • working in Japan)
Awesome Japanese company wins Internet’s heart with its special coronavirus bonus for employees
- Casey Baseel
Mar 8, 2020
Management finds 30,000 ways to say thank-you.
- Japan
- (awesome • COK • coronavirus • coronavirus outbreak • moving • touching • working in Japan)
Japanese company tells worker he probably doesn’t have coronavirus, to come to work with a fever
- Casey Baseel
Mar 5, 2020
Missing the point this badly is enough to get any worker hot under the collar.
- Japan
- (COK • coronavirus • coronavirus outbreak • health • sickness • working in Japan)
What are the worst things about the first year working in a Japanese company? Survey investigates
- Katie Pask
Mar 3, 2020
New members of the Japanese workforce share their thoughts.
- Japan
- (black companies • COK • overtime • society • survey • working in Japan)
Majority of surveyed Japanese workers have dated a coworker, over 20 percent their boss or senpai
- Casey Baseel
Feb 24, 2020
Office romance most likely to bloom for younger workers in survey.
- Japan
- (COK • relationships • romance • society • survey • working in Japan)
Soba restaurant in Japan struggles to find new employee, rewords job ad and offers flood in
- Oona McGee
Feb 21, 2020
There’s one surprising aspect of working at a 120-year-old Japanese restaurant that has everyone wanting to work there.
- Japan
- (employment • food • jobs • marketing • Noodles • Recruitment • restaurants • soba • work • work in Japan • working in Japan)
Foreign workers respond to survey about changes they’d like to see in the Japanese workplace
- Krista Rogers
Feb 19, 2020
The top requests for implementation would benefit not only foreign workers, but Japanese workers as well.
- Japan
- (foreign workers • JapanWork • overtime • reform • survey • working in Japan • workplace)
Wage hell — Japanese office worker reveals soul-crushing past paycheck for 171 hours of overtime
- Eli Pang
Feb 18, 2020
No matter the era, it never feels like you can make enough.
- Japan
- (black companies • COK • crazy • overtime • society • working in Japan)
After eight years as a NEET, our reporter shares the one thing that helped him escape that life
- Casey Baseel
Feb 11, 2020
How to turn that blank in your resume into the inspiring story of your life so far.
- Japan
- (COK • Daiki Nishimoto • moving • NEET • NEETs • SNJO • society • touching • working in Japan)
Japan’s “workstyle reforms” are actually making managers’ jobs a lot harder【Survey】
- Casey Baseel
Feb 10, 2020
Less overtime for some workers means more for others if no one’s changing how much total work needs to be done.
Japanese politeness is a myth: One person’s tale strikes a chord with people around the country
- Oona McGee
Jan 20, 2020
There’s one place in particular where Japanese people aren’t just not polite, they’re downright rude.
- Japan
- (COK • culture • omotenashi • politeness • shopping • society • supermarkets • working in Japan)
Survey says more than 70 percent of Japanese people think gender inequality exists in Japan
- Dale Roll
Jan 18, 2020
But it’s not just women who feel that way; a majority of men think so, too.
- Japan
- (gender inequality • gender roles • men and women. • society • survey • working in Japan • workplace)
Nintendo’s employee recruiting pamphlet is a full-color Super Mario storybook【Photos】
- Casey Baseel
Jan 14, 2020
No boring charts or dull text for video gaming’s most playful AAA publisher.
- Japan
- (awesome • clever • cool • illustration • nintendo • Super Mario • video games • working in Japan)
Japanese company that will quit your job for you sees rush of clients to start 2020
- Casey Baseel
Jan 9, 2020
A lot of Japanese people said hello to the new year by saying goodbye to their old job, with a team of lawyers ready to handle the awkward situation for them.
- Japan
- (COK • society • taishoku daiko • working in Japan)
Is work more important to Japanese salarymen than their girlfriends? Survey investigates
- Casey Baseel
Dec 30, 2019
”Which is more important, your job, or me?”
- Japan
- (COK • relationships • romance • salarymen • society • survey • working in Japan)
How much money do you need to raise a family with a “normal life” in Kyoto? Study investigates
- Casey Baseel
Dec 21, 2019
Living with your spouse and two kids in Japan’s former capital sounds nice, but is it affordable?
- Japan
- (COK • family • kids • Kyoto • Living in Japan • society • working in Japan)
Over 30 percent of surveyed Japanese managers feel intense stress from working with foreigners
- Casey Baseel
Dec 17, 2019
Personality issues and skill deficiencies cited as problem areas with almost one in five saying the pressure is making them want to quit their jobs as soon as possible.
- Japan
- (COK • foreigners in Japan • society • survey • working in Japan)
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Starbucks Japan unveils new Christmas goods for 2026, with exclusive holiday surprises
Family Mart releases 47 convenience store socks and stickers, one for every prefecture in Japan
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New Studio Ghibli anime gets extended run at the only cinema in Japan where it’s being shown
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Osaka’s famous Glico Running Man will be removed and replaced with a new-look sign
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Japan announces sudden 400-percent increase in visa fees for foreigners entering the country
Japan’s human washing machines will go on sale to general public, demos to be held in Tokyo
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Tokyo subway installing new ticket gates that don’t accept payment through Suica or other IC cards
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