working in Japan

Universal Studios Japan looks to expand, diversify its workforce with new employee incentives

Amid a backdrop of recently expanding its workforce by 2,000 crew members, USJ raises the hourly wage and more for part-time workers.

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Number of foreigners working in Japan hits all-time high, 25 percent come from same country

Study shows often overlooked prefecture has second-highest number of working foreign residents in Japan.

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Moving to Japan as a foreigner to work as a taxi, bus or truck driver may be getting easier soon

Japanese government looking to open a path for immigration to Japan to work in transportation sector.

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Crazy busy overnight work experience event for Japanese kids gives them just four hours to sleep

Late to bed, early to rise.

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What’s it like to work as a hearse driver in Japan?【Interview】

Making a living from driving the dead around.

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Meet the Japanese salarymen who defy gravity in a Tokyo park during lunchtime

Salarymen with superhero strength band together to form a horizontal bar club.

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North Japan prefecture creates guide to help new foreign workers understand local language quirks

Yamagata dialect can be very different from the Japanese you learned in school, but this illustrated guide will have people telling you “Jondagodo!” in no time.

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Only one demographic in survey is happy about Japan’s workplace obligation Valentine’s chocolate

And no, it’s not old men.

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More than one in three Japanese working women in survey would rather be housewives

Survey also finds a surprising gap in housewife-life appeal depending on whether or not women have kids.

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New Japanese office furniture, lockers to stand and sleep in, baffles, depresses the Internet

For when your boss says you can take a nap, but there’s nowhere to lie down.

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Japanese company uses video game-style hit point badges to help employees know who needs a hand

Tokyo-based firm understands it can be hard for some people to speak up when they’re feeling run down.

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Tokyo government announces new name for maternity/paternity leave, hopes to change attitudes

Governor of Tokyo wants people to stop saying the old term because paternal leave is not a vacation.

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No more neckties! Japanese prefecture abolishes necktie dress code for government employees

Decision is a plus for workers and the environment.

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Pokémon video game developer will allow employees to choose four-day work week

Gotta catch ‘em all, but don’t gotta work five days a week.

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Video game maker Capcom promises to increase worker salaries by 30 percent

New hires to get paid more too following very profitable year.

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Bandai is raising all full-time employees’ salaries by roughly 30 percent

Giant robot toymaker gives workers giant raises to boost motivation, with one possible catch.

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Which jobs in Japan have the most and least overtime? Survey investigates

Results also show wide gap in amount of overtime done by men and women.

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Japan’s “all-you-can-quit” job-quitting service not what it seems, is also sneakily hard to quit

For a service that promises a clean break with a bad job, this taishoku daikou has a lot of strings attached.

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Survey reveals most Japanese workers want to work from home at least twice per week

Younger and older workers did have different ideas of what the ideal number is, though. 

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Support for coworker drinking parties dropping rapidly in Japan, even among older people【Survey】

Pandemic has more people thinking they don’t need to drink with people in order to work with them.

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