working in Japan (Page 9)
Employees show increased ability to eat lightning, crap thunder, and actually go home on time.
Japanese government to start fast-tracking select foreigner workers in “Cool Japan” professions.
Common sense will actually keep you pretty safe when navigating the “etiquette minefield” of a job interview in Japan.
No need to wait until the workday is done before knocking back a cold one, and it just might lead to a full-time position.
Corey Bunnell, the most unexpected and unintentional inspiration to aspiring game designers.
Those ropes don’t seem so innocent when you read what’s on either side of them.
The Japanese language’s lack of a definite article was definitely the cause of this cross-cultural convenience store misunderstanding.
Going to work for an anime company continues to be a terrible plan if your goal is to get rich.
Author found himself waiting on a subway platform, with the train aproaching, thinking “If I just take one little step forward, I won’t have to go to work tomorrow.”
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Japanese government to make first change to romanization spelling rules since the 1950s
Ghibli founders Toshio Suzuki and Hayao Miyazaki contribute to Japanese whisky Totoro label design
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Tokyo’s most famous Starbucks is closed
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