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Tokyo companies’ late-night overtime habits exposed in time-lapse YouTube video channel【Videos】

Casey Baseel
Jul 9, 2018
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In the busiest city in a country famous for working employees to death, Tokyo Workers hopes to help people find the work/life balance they desire.

Japan
(business • overtime • society • Tokyo • video • working in Japan)

New list of inappropriate Japanese job interview questions from prefectural labor department

Casey Baseel
Jul 3, 2018

Governmental organization says your potential boss shouldn’t ask if you want to get married, where you were born, or what kind of car you drive.

Japan
(discrimination • Kumamoto • marriage • society • working in Japan)

New cosplay job-hunting site opens, offers everything from one-day to full-time positions

Casey Baseel
Jul 3, 2018

Cosjob is here to help you go from just playing in an anime costume to working in one.

Japan
(anime • cosplay • jobs • otaku • working in Japan)

One in four surveyed Japanese workers admits to wanting to kill boss, Osaka quake helps show why

Katy Kelly
Jun 21, 2018

The results of a recent survey come with Twitter horror stories about power-hungry superiors pushing their staff around, even mid-crisis.

Japan
(black companies • earthquake • Osaka earthquake • power harassment • society • survey • working in Japan)

Japanese worker orders bento lunch, gets punished with televised apology and docked pay

Oona McGee
Jun 19, 2018

People are saying this is Japanese workplace culture gone mad.

Japan
(apology • bento • Japanese workplace • jobs • offices • scandals • society • working in Japan)

Japan’s second-largest convenience store chain changes service policy for sake of foreign workers

Casey Baseel
Jun 15, 2018

Family Mart relaxes customer service rules in recognition of clerks who aren’t native Japanese speakers, also allows dyed hair.

Japan
(convenience stores • customer service • foreigners in Japan • Japanese language • linguistics • working in Japan)

Japan now has over 40,000 foreign convenience store clerks as it continues to internationalize

Casey Baseel
Jun 7, 2018

Researcher says more than half of central Tokyo convenience stores have foreigners working the graveyard shift.

Japan
(conveience stores • foreigners in Japan • society • working in Japan)

Over 75 percent of Japanese women say they’ve slept with a male coworker in survey

Casey Baseel
Jun 5, 2018

Close to half say they weren’t in a relationship with the guy at the time.

Japan
(relationships • romance • society • survey • working in Japan)

Japanese woman fed up with being expected to serve male coworkers tea shatters corporate culture

Casey Baseel
Jun 2, 2018

Frustrated professional busts up her office’s outdated “tea squad” tradition with a perfectly salted comeback.

Japan
(business • COK • funny • sexism • society • tea • working in Japan)

Japanese school’s ethics text encourages kids to “work without reward,” gets slammed online

Casey Baseel
May 29, 2018

Exasperated mom says cute animal characters are showing young students exactly what not to do in life.

Japan
(education • funny • Japanese language • kids • linguists • Parenting • parents • schools • society • working in Japan)

Japan sees huge growth in jobs in the “cleaning up the homes of old people who die alone” field

Casey Baseel
May 17, 2018

Demand grows more than 10 times in size in just five years as Japanese family dynamics change.

Japan
(aging population • business • COK • death • elderly • seniors • society • working in Japan)

Foreigners welcomed to apply for jobs as designers on Nintendo’s new Legend of Zelda game

Casey Baseel
May 7, 2018

Why keep the job you have now when you could be creating Hyrule’s forests, dungeons, and monsters instead?

Japan
(jobs • Legend of Zelda • nintendo • video games • working in Japan)

Japanese company is so kind it mails out condolence gifts if it can’t give applicants a job

Casey Baseel
Apr 30, 2018

Getting turned down for a job hurts, but one company wants to do what it can to help job-hunters bounce back from a rejection.

Japan
(business • cool • job hunting • jobs • kagome • moving • society • touching • working in Japan)

Japanese advertising agency breaks tradition by recruiting people who got held back in school

Koh Ruide
Apr 10, 2018

When a company ensures that everyone deserves a second chance, it’s a company worth working for.

Japan
(business • COK • cool • economy • education • job hunting • moving • society • touching • working in Japan)

Cosplay talent agency launches in Japan, offers representation to foreign cosplayers too

Casey Baseel
Apr 10, 2018

Dwango, the operators of Japan’s Nico Nico Douga streaming service, want to connect passionate cosplayers with paying jobs.

Japan
(anime • cosplay • Dwango • otaku • video games • working in Japan)

Japanese salaryman fears backlash against attractive people due to company paternity leave system

Casey Baseel
Apr 5, 2018

If male employees can take time off for their child’s birth, there’s one simple way to keep them working, he says.

Japan
(COK • Parenting • parents • paternity leave • society • working in Japan)

Five magic Japanese phrases to know before starting a job in Japan

Casey Baseel
Apr 4, 2018

Gomen and kudasai are great for travelers and students, but if you’re going to be successful and happy working in Japan, you’ll want to know these.