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Women in Japan are often required to wear heels for job hunting and office work, but the #KuToo movement wants to squash that part of the dress code.

Japan
(#KuToo • blood • dress code • gross • high heels • job hunting • pumps.society • scary • shoes • working in Japan)

Four pieces of important advice for foreigners in Japan moving from the countryside to Tokyo

Koh Ruide
Mar 15, 2019

These tips will prepare you for a smooth transition from rural to urban living.

Japan
(advice • countryside • foreigners in Japan • Lifehacks • moving • rural life • SNO • Tokyo • urban living • working in Japan)

There’s no need to care about our staff, because they’re foreigners, says Japanese maid service

Casey Baseel
Jan 12, 2019

Vague phrasing and fuzzy logic leads to swift backlash.

Japan
(ads • culture • foreigners in Japan • housekeeping • internationalism • Japanese language • linguistics • maids • Philippines • scandal • soceity • working in Japan)

Nearly half of young Japanese women say they “hate” the company they work for in survey

Casey Baseel
Jan 8, 2019

Young men show more satisfaction, but it plummets once they hit a certain age.

Japan
(COK • society • survey • working in Japan)

Workers’ mental health more important than 2 million yen as ramen chain closes for New Year’s

Casey Baseel
Dec 31, 2018

500-restaurant chain closes all branches to give employees’ time to spend with families at New Year’s.

Japan
(culture • food • moving • New Year's • overwork • ramen • restaurants • society • touching • working in Japan)

Five lies to help you get out of Japan’s dreaded end-of-the-year office parties

Casey Baseel
Dec 15, 2018

Attending the company’s “forget the year party” is all but required in Japan, but there are ways out, say the people who came up with these five fibs.

Japan
(alcohol • bonenkai • COK • end of year parties • forget the year parties • society • working in Japan)

Japanese company trips – Workers “absolutely hate” them, so why do they still happen?

Casey Baseel
Nov 16, 2018

Your company is paying for you to take a pleasure trip! Awesome! You’ll be spending all weekend with your boss and coworkers! Not so awesome.

Japan
(COK • company trips • overtime • society • survey • travel • working in Japan)

Spend a shift working in a terrible, soul-crushing Japanese company at this “special” Tokyo event

Casey Baseel
Nov 4, 2018

And for extra authenticity, they’ll even make you work on a national holiday!

Japan
(black companies • black kigyo • crazy • events • society • weird • working in Japan)

Is this common Japanese phrase for “goodbye” the reason for Japan’s crazy overtime hours?

Casey Baseel
Oct 18, 2018

When you’re leaving the office before your coworkers, you don’t tell them “Sayonara,” you tell them “I’m being rude.”

Japan
(COK • culture • Japanese language • linguistics • overtime • soceity • working in Japan)

Japanese company will tell your boss you’re quitting for you, sees high demand for its services

Casey Baseel
Sep 28, 2018

In work-till-you-drop Japan, company is coming to the aid of distraught employees who say “I want to die.”

Japan
(COK • society • weird • working in Japan)

Japanese Twitter users are jealous of Christopher Robin’s soul-suckingly busy work schedule

Casey Baseel
Sep 19, 2018

The life of the stressed-out main character in the live-action Winnie the Pooh film is one of leisure compared to many Japanese adults’.

Japan, USA
(Christopher Robin • Disney • movies • overtime • society • video • Winnie the Pooh • working in Japan)

Japanese politicians want to make it easier for foreigners to get anime assistant work visas

Casey Baseel
Sep 12, 2018

Ministry of Justice proposal aims to let foreign students stay in Japan after they finish school and work their way up the professional ladder.