How-tos

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.

A big part of retirement is spent organizing your home and your affairs, but tidying experts advise decluttering well beforehand.

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 ...

An interesting query came to Lifelines from LS, a reader in the United States who was born in Tokyo and lived here until her teens. She writes: I received vaccination shots as a baby and child through the Japanese hospital. I no longer have my ...

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 ...