The government-backed "Premium Friday" campaign kicked off on Friday with around 130 participating firms across the country encouraging employees to leave work early on the last Friday of each month. The government launched the initiative to boost weak consumer spending as it struggles to halt ...
The Abe administration must ensure that a new regulation on overtime work will be effective enough to protect the health of company workers.
Overwork is such an issue in Japan that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has vowed to fix it. He wants companies to reward productivity rather than long hours, and to create workplaces that allow men and women to finish on time and share the burden ...
A government panel called Thursday for rethinking regulations on working hours to boost industrial competitiveness. In an interim report, a subpanel of the government's industrial competitiveness council urged the introduction of a new system that requires businesses to increase flexibility in the way employees work ...
Perhaps only in Japan could a young man be arrested for the crime of "obstructing university operations by fraudulent means." For weeks, the nation's headlines have been jammed with the story about a student who cheated on the entrance exam for four prestigious universities, ...
