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JOBS

Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / LABOR PAINS
Jul 23, 2014
A democratically elected rep is every worker's legal right
The lack of a freely and fairly elected workers' rep could cost employees dearly in the long run.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jul 10, 2014
Public workers strike across U.K. over austerity pay cuts
Public-sector workers in the United Kingdom walked out Thursday to protest pay, pensions and job cuts, closing schools, courts and libraries across the country.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 8, 2014
Crimea euphoria fading for Russians
When she was asked to give up a day's pay to help Crimea, Russian hospital therapist Tatyana could not hide her anger. Why should she subsidize others when struggling to make ends meet herself?
COMMUNITY / Voices / COMMUNITY CHEST
Jul 7, 2014
Letters: adoption from Japan, book bores, returnees, workers' rights and fleeing U.S. guns
Some letters in response to recent articles in the Community section about a wide range of subjects.
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Jul 7, 2014
Foreign women also face 'maternity harassment'
Non-Japanese women discuss their experiences of mata-hara, or 'maternity harassment' — discrimination in the workplace against women who are pregnant, on child-care leave or have returned to work after giving birth.
BUSINESS
Jun 23, 2014
Foreign maids the talk of Kansai zone
Discussions began in Osaka on Monday on a proposed special economic zone in the Kansai region that will include an experimental program to attract foreign maids to the region.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / How-tos / LIFELINES
Jun 22, 2014
In Japan's courts, even verbal job offers count
An employer needs a very good reason to legally retract a job offer they have already submitted, whether it be written or verbal.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Jun 16, 2014
Harassers exploit Gaba's 'man-to-man' lesson format
The first sign that Olivia's Gaba lesson would be anything but ordinary came when her student insisted during the warmup that he didn't like wearing clothes.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / LABOR PAINS
Jun 9, 2014
AKB48 members deserve to get workers’ comp for saw attack
Are members of girl group AKB48 'workers' under the law and therefore eligible for industrial accident insurance? The evidence suggests so.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 5, 2014
Top retailers reach crossroads in labor shortage shakeout
Don Quijote and Uniqlo, two of the nation's best-known mass-market retailers, aren't waiting for the government's new growth policies due later this month before implementing their own labor reforms.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 2, 2014
SMBC Nikko to boost overseas staff by 25%
Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc.'s securities arm plans to increase the number of employees abroad by 25 percent in the next three years to expand in areas including securitization, trading and investment banking.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 1, 2014
Managers in China stoking labor activism
Behind China's biggest strike in decades last month was a new player in Chinese labor activism: management.
EDITORIALS
May 24, 2014
Giving the disabled a chance to work
For the fourth straight year, a record high number of people with mental or physical disabilities find employment through public job placement offices in Japan.
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
May 17, 2014
'Japan is back' but small business isn't
The old Japan is dying. Is a new Japan being born?
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
May 7, 2014
Economic divide fueling surge in Xinjiang unrest
Hundreds of migrant workers from distant corners of China pour daily into the Urumqi South railway station, their first waypoint on a journey carrying them to lucrative work in other parts of the far western Xinjiang region.
COMMUNITY / Issues / LABOR PAINS
May 7, 2014
Japanese firms have much to lose in battles over bogus outsourcing
The biggest reason companies sign outsourcing contracts with regular workers is to avoid all the obligations employers have to regular employees according to labor law.
Japan Times
WORLD
May 4, 2014
Polish immigrants find their footing in Britain
Ten years after Tomasz Dyl left his small hometown near Krakow as a 13-year-old to start a new life in Southampton on England's south coast, his personal trajectory has become emblematic of the story of Polish migration to the U.K.
COMMUNITY / How-tos / LIFELINES
May 4, 2014
A cut-out-and-keep guide to getting legal advice in Japan
With the new school and fiscal year bringing plenty of new arrivals to Japan, here are some basic tips on how to use various legal services in Japan.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
May 3, 2014
April's U.S. job growth surprises
U.S. employers hired workers at the fastest clip in more than two years in April, pointing to a rebound in economic growth after a dreadful winter and keeping the Federal Reserve on track to end bond purchases this year.
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 26, 2014
U.S. expands probe into banks' hiring
U.S. government agencies that have been probing banks' hiring of the children of powerful Chinese officials are expanding existing investigations in other industries across Asia to include hiring practices, four people familiar with the matter said.

Longform

Once smoky, male-dominated spaces, today's net cafes, like Kaikatsu Club, are working to make their operations more attractive to women customers.
The second life of Japan's net cafes