Family Mart relaxes customer service rules in recognition of clerks who aren’t native Japanese speakers, also allows dyed hair.
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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.
Frustrated professional busts up her office’s outdated “tea squad” tradition with a perfectly salted comeback.
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.
When a company ensures that everyone deserves a second chance, it’s a company worth working for.
Dwango, the operators of Japan’s Nico Nico Douga streaming service, want to connect passionate cosplayers with paying jobs.
If male employees can take time off for their child’s birth, there’s one simple way to keep them working, he says.
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.
Think Japanese businessmen don’t care about their wives? This one does, and he’s got no time for anyone keeping him from taking care of her.
Program aims to help new college graduates get ready for the start of grown-up working life, with voices ranging from anime-style to husky.
Our veteran salaryman-turned-reporter gives his idea for the one thing that has to change before Japan will stop working itself to death.
Managers in Japan often use the phrase “Imadoki no wakai mono ha…” to gripe about young people, but this time there’s a twist.
Majority of participants who don’t live with Mom and Dad are losing money while they work in the anime industry.
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