While stories about mandatory heels and a ban on glasses are making the rounds in the media, the reality of working at a Japanese firm when you're a woman is not as bad as you may think.

Coming to a compromise, PowerPoint presentations and group consensus will help you get your way at work over an impressive oral argument.

Insults, physical violence, unreasonable demands — coming from a superior at work these and other types of similar behavior are definitely not allowed.

Back in the bubble period, I was able to get a job at a Japanese bank in Tokyo with language skills that were intermediate at best. With a lot of intensive effort (and classes kindly paid for by my employer) I was able to ...

What should you do when one of your Japanese colleagues makes a problematic comment? Sometimes it's best to keep things light.

When looking for a salary boost at your job it's important to remember that individual effort is appreciated but not necessarily rewarded.

The viral story of how a Japanese chemical company, Kaneka, reassigned an employee to the Western part of Japan immediately after he returned from paternity leave in Tokyo left netizens indignant last week. And the story has also caused many non-Japanese to scratch their ...

After I had spent over a year working at a Japanese bank in Tokyo, I felt like something was wrong but I couldn't quite put my finger on it. I knew I was doing a good job, and my work was going smoothly, but ...

What if you were doing something that drove your Japanese colleagues crazy, but you didn't realize it? Conducting seminars for Japanese businesspeople who work with people from other countries, I found a common theme that comes up every time I ask what behaviors of ...

Putting together the slide deck for the presentation had become a never-ending ordeal for Dave. Every time he turned a draft in to his Japanese boss, it would come back with yet another set of things to correct. "How many times do I have to ...