When you’re leaving the office before your coworkers, you don’t tell them “Sayonara,” you tell them “I’m being rude.”
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Ministry of Justice proposal aims to let foreign students stay in Japan after they finish school and work their way up the professional ladder.
Shining Monday initiative sounds great for anyone who likes to party on Sunday night, or just would rather not be working on Monday morning.
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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.
The results of a recent survey come with Twitter horror stories about power-hungry superiors pushing their staff around, even mid-crisis.
Family Mart relaxes customer service rules in recognition of clerks who aren’t native Japanese speakers, also allows dyed hair.
Researcher says more than half of central Tokyo convenience stores have foreigners working the graveyard shift.
Close to half say they weren’t in a relationship with the guy at the time.
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Exasperated mom says cute animal characters are showing young students exactly what not to do in life.
Demand grows more than 10 times in size in just five years as Japanese family dynamics change.
Why keep the job you have now when you could be creating Hyrule’s forests, dungeons, and monsters instead?
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.
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