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COMMUNITY / How-tos / LIFELINES
Jul 31, 2012

How would changing jobs affect my visa?

S.E. has been working at the same English school for 16 years but is thinking of leaving her job and moving to another part of Japan.
BUSINESS
Apr 20, 2012

Sony to cut 326 EMI jobs within two years

Sony Corp. plans to cut 326 jobs at EMI Publishing within two years after U.S. and European regulators approve its $2.2 billion acquisition of the U.K. music company.
BUSINESS
Dec 8, 2011

Deutsche Bank cuts 20 jobs in Tokyo

Deutsche Bank AG's head of corporate finance coverage in Japan, Koichiro Yasuda, resigned as the German bank cut about 20 jobs in Tokyo, two sources said.
Reader Mail
Nov 20, 2011

Creating domestic energy jobs

Regarding the Nov. 11 editorial "Nuclear export policy misguided": It would be interesting to get a list of countries to which Japan's nuclear know-how has been, and will be, exported. Vietnam and India are mentioned in the editorial as was Jordan before. From a European news source, I learned that Turkey...
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 11, 2011

Internet apps won't close jobs gap

America today is akin to the Ottoman Empire at the end of its days. Immensely important, commanding huge global influence, badly run and under mounting debt, it is not the leader of the world, but the sick man of it.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 13, 2011

'Jobs factor' made Apple's closed strategy work

Normally, you need a distinctive first name not to need a last name, but in this — as in everything that he did — Steve Jobs was different. He was always just "Steve."
JAPAN
Apr 6, 2011

Mayors near nuke plant torn between threat, jobs

Mayors of towns and villages around the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant were torn Tuesday between two facts: the facility has brought economic benefits to their communities but is now posing a threat to the lives of their residents.
JAPAN
Feb 26, 2011

Refugee families' dads land jobs in farming

The fathers of five refugee families from Myanmar who have been undergoing language training and living orientation after arriving in Japan under the U.N.-sponsored third-country resettlement program have landed jobs on farms, Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara said Friday.
EDITORIALS
Jul 18, 2010

A Japanese Steve Jobs?

Why, asks a Japanese magazine, wasn't the iPad invented in Japan? The short answer would be that Steve Jobs isn't Japanese. Japan does, however, have a similarly hard-driving perfectionist manager in Mr. Tadashi Yanai, head of Fast Retailing, who is rapidly turning his chain of clothing stores, Uniqlo,...
BUSINESS
Mar 2, 2010

Desperate for jobs, U.S. town awaits Toyota plant

BLUE SPRINGS, Miss. — Terry McShan isn't thinking about car sales analyses or excess capacity when he drives by the idle Toyota plant in northeast Mississippi. He's thinking about his little girl.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 13, 2009

China's growth won't be high enough to sustain jobs: scholar

China's economy will grow at modest rates, but not strong enough to tame unemployment for an extended time without a radical change in macroeconomic policy, a Chinese scholar told a recent seminar in Tokyo.
BUSINESS
Feb 5, 2009

Panasonic terminating 15,000 jobs worldwide

Panasonic Corp. said Wednesday it is reducing 15,000 jobs worldwide, about 5 percent of its workforce, by the end of March 2010 as it expects to lose ¥380 billion in the business year ending in March.
BUSINESS
Feb 5, 2009

MMC to lose ¥60 billion; Mazda ¥13 billion in red

Mazda Motor Corp. and Mitsubishi Motors Corp. forecast losses for this business year as the global recession dampens demand for cars.

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