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Trump's next $100 billion tariff dilemma: Hit Walmart or Apple?
U.S. consumers may be about to feel directly the effects of the trade fight started by U.S. President Donald Trump with China and other countries this year, when a new list of Chinese imports to be taxed is announced in coming days. After imposing import ...
'Men only' job ads highlight ongoing discrimination in China, rights group says
A human rights group says gender discrimination is widespread in the Chinese work force, with many hiring advertisements openly calling only for male applicants and using the attractiveness of female co-workers as a draw. Human Rights Watch released the report Monday after looking at more ...
Some cafes are offering college students simulated experiences of everyday life at work in a company, using virtual reality technology. The simulation takes the user through a day in the life of a company employee, moving beyond the explanations given at company information sessions. The content ...
University students in Japan getting luckier with early job offers, survey finds
Nearly 20 percent of the nation's job-hunting university students had secured informal offers for next spring as of April 1, a private survey shows. The 19.9 percent figure is 5.4 points higher than a year ago, according to the survey by job data provider Recruit ...
Trump signs executive order strengthening work requirements for welfare
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday that aims to add and strengthen work requirements for public assistance and other welfare programs. The order, signed in private, promotes "common-sense reforms" that policy adviser Andrew Bremberg said would reduce dependence on government programs. "Part of President ...
How do you start your introduction: firm, school or you?
Is the entrenched practice of organizational identification discouraging many Japanese from seeking their own identity and purpose?
Vietnamese trainee in Japan sent home after asking for paid leave
A Vietnamese man working in Japan under the foreign trainee program was forced to return home after asking to take time off to get married, according to the man and his support group. The 27-year-old Vietnamese, who declined to be named, had been working at ...
Trump trade moves rattle Republican voters in rural, red state America
Gary Bailey is certain China is trying to rattle Donald Trump voters with its threat to slap tariffs on soybeans and other agriculture staples grown in rural America. The wheat farmer in eastern Washington, a state that exports $4 billion a year in farm ...
Japan's goal-oriented college grad athletes stand out from the crowd when it comes to job hunting
As competition heats up for new university graduates vying for jobs this spring, student athletes are drawing the attention of companies for having goal-minded qualities that could potentially make them superior candidates. Although students with athletic backgrounds might find it difficult to compete for jobs ...
A company freshman's sharp learning curve
The first Monday in April — April 2 this year — sees tens of thousands of 生き生きして元気な新入社員 (ikiiki shite genki na shinnyū shain, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed newly hired company employees) — also referred to as フレシュマン (fureshuman, freshmen) — decked out in their new ...
Too much of an education could be bad for your future
While school rucksacks in Japan may be getting heavier, the prospects for the over-educated may be getting bleaker.
As wild weather worsens, Philippine migration takes on a female face
When the rains failed in 2015 and drought gripped southern Mindanao in the Philippines, Corazon Vegafria knew what she had to do: move to the city of Koronadal, about an hour away by bus, and find work as a domestic helper to support her ...
