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COMMENTARY / World
Jul 21, 2013

Is the age of automation taking a toll on jobs?

American colleges aren't worse today, but the skills required for solving unstructured problems and working with new info have become more complex.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 5, 2012

Apple after Steve Jobs: separating fact and fiction

This fall, Apple chief executive Tim Cook formally apologized for the company's mistake-filled mobile map application, which became a national joke for its screwy geography. The misstep focused new attention on the legendary company and how it has fared since the death of Steve Jobs in October 2011....
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 5, 2007

Eastern challenge to West European jobs

MUNICH -- In January, the European Union expanded eastward once again. Following the "Big Bang" enlargement of 2004, which added 75 million new EU citizens, the accession of Romania and Bulgaria has added 30 million more. What does this mean for the labor markets of Western Europe?
EDITORIALS
May 4, 1999

A shrinking pool of jobs

The latest employment figures confirm that Japan's job market is continuing to contract. The number of unemployed hit a record 3.39 million in March, as the jobless rate rose 0.2 points to 4.8 percent. Both figures mark the worst-ever downturn since the government began keeping such records in 1953....
JAPAN
Sep 11, 1997

New Akashi bridge threatens ferry company jobs

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Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Jun 1, 2023

How remote work connected employees making $19 an hour and $80,000 a year

Corporate employees who don't want to return to the office face tensions over how their demands compare with those of others who could never work remotely.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal / EXPLAINER
May 19, 2023

What are the risks of 'dark' part-time jobs? A former detective explains.

Many young people are drawn in, mistakenly thinking that they won't be held responsible because of their age.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / ANALYSIS
May 1, 2023

Italy squandering economic lifeline as migrant talent goes to waste

The scant prospects in Italy for foreign-born workers, however qualified they are, raises red flags for a country with a chronically stagnant economy and a rapidly shrinking population.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 27, 2023

Jobless young Chinese seek solace in temples and tale of failed scholar

Despondent young worshippers crowd temples in China on weekends, as they pray to find jobs in an economy slowly clawing its way back from the coronavirus pandemic.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Feb 17, 2023

The extraordinary exit of the women of Silicon Valley

People leave senior jobs all the time. But because there are so few women in senior leadership it is more remarkable when that happens.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Regional voices: Chubu
Dec 26, 2022

Child care facilities struggle amid worker shortage and high staff turnover

In some cases, distressed child care centers have turned to private placement agencies, and have to pay high fees to secure workers.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society / Regional Voices: Kyushu
Dec 19, 2022

Spotlight being shone on gender issues from a male perspective

While women make some progress, the number of men in traditionally women's jobs has not increased.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 18, 2022

Rise of delivery robots leaves drivers fearful of job losses

Growing numbers of delivery robots — from pavement-driving pods to flying drones — are being rolled out in urban areas, boosted by a surge of interest during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 28, 2022

Japan to recommend that companies disclose side-job policies

The health ministry hopes to encourage companies to lift bans on side jobs, in order to help diversify ways workers can shape their careers and facilitate moves of workers to growth sectors.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 30, 2021

Singapore’s angst over expats forces simmering political debate

The government is under pressure to explain its approach right as the country is trying to stoke post-pandemic growth.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
Feb 24, 2021

As pandemic took hold, suicide rose among Japanese women

In Japan, 6,976 women took their lives last year, nearly 15% more than in 2019. It was the first year-over-year increase in more than a decade.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 4, 2021

The pandemic doesn’t have to hurt women most

Women make up a larger share of workers in industries that ground to a halt, and they typically shoulder more of the unpaid labor at home.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy / FOCUS
Jun 12, 2020

Women bear brunt of Japan's recession as pandemic unravels Abe's 'Womenomics'

Many women lack the job security of male workers, with more than half holding vulnerable part-time, contract or temporary jobs.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
May 29, 2019

France pledges to fight for plant where GE plans 1,044 job cuts

French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Tuesday he would fight to save jobs at a General Electric Co. (GE) factory in eastern France where more than 1,000 posts are threatened.
BUSINESS
Dec 3, 2018

Pot so hot in Canada that firms are importing workers

It was midsummer, less than three months before Canada legalized recreational marijuana, and Vic Neufeld had a problem.
People attend a job fair in China's southwestern city of Chongqing on April 11. China on Aug. 15 said it would suspend the release of youth unemployment data, fueling data transparency concerns and heightening worries about the country’s economic slowdown.
BUSINESS / Economy / ANALYSIS
Aug 25, 2023

China braces for wider youth unemployment problems

Last week, Beijing decided to halt the release of urban youth unemployment data, which has been soaring in recent years.
Hyundai Wia robotic arms on the production line at the Kia plant in Gwangmyeong, South Korea, on Jan. 3
BUSINESS
Jul 1, 2024

How one of the world's strongest car unions is dealing with EV job losses

Hyundai Motor and Kia’s moves toward electrification are provoking anxiety in South Korea’s highly active and organized labor movement.
A visitor holds a ¥1,000 banknote to offer a prayer on the first business day of the year at the Kanda Myojin shrine in Tokyo on Monday. The yen has declined against the dollar for four straight years amid a wide gap between interest rates in Japan and the United States.
BUSINESS / Markets
Jan 10, 2025

Yen intervention risk creeps higher as U.S. jobs report approaches

The yen is within reach of ¥160 per dollar, a breach of which would increase concern about the weak currency’s impact on business and consumers.
A Nucor steel factory in Blytheville, Arkansas. Foreign competition isn't the biggest challenge for steel companies — it's finding workers.
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 24, 2025

Steelmakers already short-staffed as Trump pushes for U.S. factory revival

The U.S. stopped training factory workers decades ago, and retirements and immigration crackdowns are draining the pool of labor available.
Federal workers shout chants during a rally across the street from the Internal Revenue Service headquarters in March.
WORLD / Politics
May 20, 2025

Trump's mass layoff threat drives U.S. government workers to resign

Mass layoffs at the largest agencies have yet to materialize and courts have slowed the process.
Women represent 26% of the AI workforce, according to a UNESCO report, and men hold 80% of tenured faculty positions at university AI departments globally.
BUSINESS / Tech
Jul 12, 2025

Tech's diversity crisis is baking bias into AI systems

Built-in viewpoints and bias, unintentionally imbued by its creators, can make the fast-growing digital tool risky to use.

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An illustration features the Japanese signs for "ganbare" (good luck) and the Deaflympics, which will be held between Nov. 15 and 26.
A century of Deaf sport finds its moment in Tokyo