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BUSINESS
Sep 19, 2018
75% of firms in Japan not planning to allow side jobs: survey
About three-quarters of companies in Japan have no plans to allow their employees to have side jobs despite government efforts to promote such a practice, a survey has shown.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 17, 2018
Education in the age of automation
The outcome of the race between technology and education will determine whether the opportunities presented by major innovations are seized, and whether the benefits of progress are widely shared.
LIFE / Language / NEWS IN NIHONGO
Sep 17, 2018
'Avatar robot' cafe opens up new job opportunities to ALS patients
This November, a cafe will open in Akasaka, Tokyo, where customers will be served by 'avatar robots' controlled remotely by severely handicapped employees.
Japan Times
LIFE / Language / WELL SAID
Sep 17, 2018
Living and working — choosing the right verb in Japanese
Introducing the differences between the verbs 'sumu' and 'kurasu,' as well as 'tsutomeru' and 'hataraku'
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / How-tos / LIFELINES
Sep 16, 2018
Bilingual project aims to be a springboard to women's empowerment in Japan
A new bilingual program aims to cross language and cultural barriers and help all women move ahead in their professional and personal lives — sharing with and learning from each other in the process.
EDITORIALS
Sep 15, 2018
End guidelines for hiring new grads?
Many uniquely Japanese employment practices that lie behind recruiting guidelines are changing at a dizzying pace.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Sep 14, 2018
Despite government push of AI and robots, Japanese fear tech to lead to inequality and job losses: survey
Japan is among the biggest users of robots in the world, with 303 per 10,000 employees in 2016 — the fourth-highest globally — according to the International Federation of Robotics. But despite such adoption — or perhaps because of it — belief in the displacement of human workers due to technology...
BUSINESS
Sep 14, 2018
French restaurants look to asylum seekers to fill jobs but face bureaucratic delays
Restaurateurs in France want the government to speed up its asylum process and make it easier to identify suitable staff to help them fill thousands of jobs they say are increasingly snubbed by French workers.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Sep 5, 2018
Views From Tokyo: What do you think about Mio Sugita's remark that LGBT people are 'unproductive'?
People in the Japanese capital were asked for their thoughts on the position of the LGBT community in Japnese society, in the wake of a ruling party politician's contentious comments.
BUSINESS / Economy
Aug 31, 2018
Japan's factory output declines due to natural disasters and slowing exports, raising growth worries
The country's industrial output fell for a third straight month in July, as factory activity struggled to pick up due to slowing exports and flooding that disrupted production. This was compounded by global trade tensions that cloud the export-reliant economy's outlook.
EDITORIALS
Aug 30, 2018
Secure proper conditions for foreign workers
With more low-skilled workers coming in from overseas, Japan must improve their work and living conditions.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 30, 2018
Pro-growth education for Japan
It is time for Japan to unleash the third 'arrow' of Abenomics: a long-term growth strategy underpinned by structural reforms.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 28, 2018
Startup takes stress out of fed-up workers' exit plans
There was the 24-year-old insurance saleswoman who got sick of being yelled at when she couldn't reach her quota. Then there's the exhausted designer who clocked 160 hours of monthly overtime. And the ramen noodle shop employee who suffered stress to the point of developing depression.
BUSINESS
Aug 28, 2018
Jobs, competition, prices, even 5G debut may be threatened if T-Mobile buys Sprint: union
T-Mobile US Inc.'s proposed $26.5 billion purchase of Sprint Corp. would cost jobs, threaten competition and may not speed the arrival of advanced 5G networks, the Communications Workers of America said in a filing.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 24, 2018
Looking beyond work-style reform
Rising workforce mobility will have many unintended consequences.
EDITORIALS
Aug 21, 2018
Padding the data on hiring people with disabilities
The revelation of government malpractice in the mandatory employment of people with disabilities should trigger more discussions on what's needed to promote hiring of these people so they can give full play to their potential in the nation's workforce.
Japan Times
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Aug 20, 2018
Smile as you study:/ Sharp salaryman senryu/ satirize the slog
Highlights from the 31st Senryu for Salaried Workers Contest riff on the situations employees encounter at the office, home or both.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / FOCUS
Aug 17, 2018
China's student activists cast rare light on brewing labor unrest
When Shen Mengyu graduated with a master's degree from a top Chinese university in 2015, she could have landed a comfortable job in government or at one of China's internet giants.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 15, 2018
Sarah Sanders claim of more black jobs during Trump era than in Obama's is dead wrong
White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders falsely claimed that President Donald Trump has created three times as many jobs for black workers as his predecessor, Barack Obama, did during his entire time in office.
Social media helps fuel growing 'sex tourism' in Japan
People walk down a street in the red-light entertainment area of Kabukicho in the Shinjuku district of Tokyo on March 31.
Japan buys first South Korean rice in over two decades as prices surge
Bags of rice at a warehouse in Pyeongtaek, South Korea. Japan imported South Korean rice for the first time since 1999 this month amid soaring domestic prices for the staple grain.
Nvidia CEO lobbies Japan to generate more power to fuel AI
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang answers questions from reporters after his meeting with Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba at the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo on Monday.
Nvidia CEO urges LDP to build up Japan’s AI infrastructure
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba receives a gift from Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang at the start of their meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo on Monday.
Yen on the march as Plaza Accord 2.0 debate grows
The yen strengthened dramatically this month — hitting ¥139.9 to the dollar on Tuesday — and could become a topic of conversation in trade talks between the United States and Japan.
Is Japan’s parliament ready to welcome more youth to its ranks?
Lower House lawmaker Kai Odake in his Tokyo office on Wednesday
The floor is art: Takuro Tamayama transforms mundanity
Takuro Tamayama’s sculpture “Models (Pair, 6 sets, 12 rings)” comes with a mathematical formation that scales it for different spaces.
Nothing sells like Shohei Ohtani, MLB’s marketing megastar
People walk past an advertisement featuring Los Angeles Dodgers two-way star Shohei Ohtani outside Tokyo Dome on March 18.
Calling all Potterheads: ‘The Goblet of Fire’ comes to Tokyo
The Tokyo version of the globe-trotting exhibition features a Ministry of Magic set, which includes an imposing replica of the Magic Is Might monument representing magical fascism.
Tokyo stock picker advises Trump-proofing portfolios with Godzilla creator Toho
The head of Godzilla, a Japanese monster movie character, is seen on a building of Toho Cinema in Tokyo. Toho is one tariff-defensive stock being recommended by brokers.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

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Visitors walk past Sou Fujimoto's Grand Ring, which has been recognized as the largest wooden structure in the world.
Can a World Expo still matter? Japan is about to find out.
By Tomoko Otake

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