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Japan's factory output declines due to natural disasters and slowing exports, raising growth worries
The country's industrial output fell for a third straight month in July, as factory activity struggled to pick up due to slowing exports and flooding that disrupted production. This was compounded by global trade tensions that cloud the export-reliant economy's outlook. Trade ministry data, released ...
With more low-skilled workers coming in from overseas, Japan must improve their work and living conditions.
Pro-growth education for Japan
It is time for Japan to unleash the third "arrow" of Abenomics: a long-term growth strategy underpinned by structural reforms.
Ports across U.S. fear Trump's tariffs could reduce ship traffic and jobs
Ports and ground terminals in nearly every state handle goods that are now or will likely soon be covered by import tariffs. Port executives worry that this could mean a slowdown in shipping that would have ripple effects on truckers and others whose jobs ...
Startup takes stress out of fed-up workers' exit plans
There was the 24-year-old insurance saleswoman who got sick of being yelled at when she couldn't reach her quota. Then there's the exhausted designer who clocked 160 hours of monthly overtime. And the ramen noodle shop employee who suffered stress to the point of ...
Jobs, competition, prices, even 5G debut may be threatened if T-Mobile buys Sprint: union
T-Mobile US Inc.'s proposed $26.5 billion purchase of Sprint Corp. would cost jobs, threaten competition and may not speed the arrival of advanced 5G networks, the Communications Workers of America said in a filing. T-Mobile and Sprint, the third- and fourth-largest U.S. wireless providers, have ...
Looking beyond work-style reform
Rising workforce mobility will have many unintended consequences.
The revelation of government malpractice in the mandatory employment of people with disabilities should trigger more discussions on what's needed to promote hiring of these people so they can give full play to their potential in the nation's workforce.
Smile as you study:/ Sharp salaryman senryu/ satirize the slog
Highlights from the 31st Senryu for Salaried Workers Contest riff on the situations employees encounter at the office, home or both.
China's student activists cast rare light on brewing labor unrest
When Shen Mengyu graduated with a master's degree from a top Chinese university in 2015, she could have landed a comfortable job in government or at one of China's internet giants. Instead, she went to work at a car parts factory in the southern city ...
Sarah Sanders claim of more black jobs during Trump era than in Obama's is dead wrong
White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders falsely claimed that President Donald Trump has created three times as many jobs for black workers as his predecessor, Barack Obama, did during his entire time in office. Sanders asserted at a White House press briefing Tuesday that Trump ...
Support for working women growing in Japan, but smaller companies lag behind
Programs to support women in the workforce are expanding in Japan, nearly three years after the enactment of a new law aimed at making the country's business environment more female-friendly. The law took partial effect in September 2015 and came into full force in April ...
