Careful reading of laws suggests that a 10-year exception to the new rule that makes irregular workers permanent doesn't apply to college teachers.

The government has been pushing job-juggling lately, but I have reason to believe that its interests lie not with workers' health and security.

It's midnight at the convenience store I often patronize near my home in Tokyo's central Shinjuku district. The store's open all day and night, 365 days a year. There is one man I've seen quite a bit of lately — behind the counter, stocking shelves, ...

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, long the champion of labor law deregulation, last year announced it was time to place a legally binding upper limit on overtime hours.

Perhaps managers need to channel the spooky kid from "The Sixth Sense" and start seeing shareholders everywhere, because that is probably closest to social reality in Japan.

A recent survey corroborates the stereotype many folks have of the Japanese worker: In short, their work is endless and breaks are few and far between.

An increasing number of major Japanese companies are strengthening their efforts to reduce overtime work on a voluntary basis, in a break with the culture of long hours at workplaces. More companies have introduced a system of fixed-time intervals between the end of a workday ...

Workers sued for millions of yen over protests outside the company that fired them take their case to the Supreme Court.