A Japanese lawyer told me: "To Westerners, marriage means 1+1=2. But in Japan it equals 1." This made perfect sense to me, but perhaps I should explain.
At the heart of the Sulejman Brkic case is the issue of what, in legal terms, the nature of his employment status was while he worked for language school ICC: Was he an employee or a contractor?
My first Labor Pains column of the new fiscal year will look at the government’s recent proposal for bringing in foreign workers. Various proposals on easing immigration restrictions for foreign workers have been bandied about in recent years, but they were inevitably scrapped because ...
Tokyoites pick out one way to make the capital's usually reliable subway system just that little bit better.
Otawara — yes, that’s spelled with a “t” — is one of those places few people know and most confuse with somewhere else (in this case with Odawara, Kanagawa Prefecture). However, travel about 165 km north of Tokyo and you’ll find it, tucked away ...
Regular viewers of Japanese TV may remember young Haruka Christine’s first appearances on the variety-show circuit in early 2010, when she had her fellow entertainers and audiences in stitches. Here was a girl of 18, often dressed in traditional Swiss garb and every inch ...
In the past decade or so, certain claims about Japan's housing market have come to be accepted as facts. One is that Japanese houses are only meant to last 30 years.
