Many Japanese companies such as Hitachi and Fujitsu are introducing a “job-type” (job-gata in Japanese) system. The term “job-type” will not be familiar to Europeans, so we will draw on a series in the Nikkei Business to explain the …
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March has always been a stressful, uncertain month in Japan. Most companies, schools and universities start their new year around April 1st and this is also when corporate promotions and restructurings are announced.
Prime Minister Abe has been adding to …
Read MoreSince the suicide of a young female employee at advertising giant Dentsu in December 2015 was deemed to be due to overwork, there has been a rash of articles in the Japanese media asking whether it’s time to change Japan’s …
Read MoreMy first essay on Japan, a thesis for my Modern History & Economics degree, was on the day labourers in post-war Japan and the so-called dual labour market. It’s with a sinking heart, nearly 30 years’ on, that I have …
Read MoreI was discussing with a client recently the way accepted terminology keeps changing in the UK business world. Apparently “flexible working” is now being renamed “agile working”. “Agile” working is meant to have a wider definition than flexible working – …
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