For Kisaku Seno's latest contributions to The Japan Times, see below:
In a quiet corner of the National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo, a small group of elderly dementia patients accompanied by relatives and caregivers gathered in December in front of a work by French avant-garde painter Pierre Bonnard. Yoko Hayashi, representative director of Arts ...
Facing fierce competition to attract top university graduates, many Japanese firms are using internship programs as a way to entice students before the official start of the recruiting season, which was recently shifted to March from December. Students in their junior year aiming for the ...
Amid an acute labor shortage, well-trained nurses from several Asian countries are bringing favorable changes to hospitals here. "They gave us the power to tackle our sense of stagnation," Sayaka Fujita, a 41-year-old nurse at Sodegaura Satsukidai Hospital in Sodegaura, Chiba Prefecture, said of the ...
Japanese television networks are scrambling into Asia, seeing it as a new frontier of business opportunities as they struggle with dwindling advertising revenue at home. Fuji Media Holdings. is pushing into the Asian market with its "Asia Versus" program, a competition for amateur musicians. While ...
A book released nearly 80 years ago and considered a representative piece of proletarian literature is apparently striking a chord with young part-time workers amid growing income disparities and poverty in Japan. "Kanikosen" ("Crab-Canning Boat") by Takiji Kobayashi (1903-1933) debuted in 1929. Kobayashi was tortured ...
