Recruit Japan

27/11/2020

https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2020/11/43444e071690-japan-univ-job-office-to-help-foreign-students-find-employment.html

A Japanese university and a public job placement office in Tokyo sign accord to support foreign students seeking jobs in Japan -- the first such agreement concluded in the country.

27/11/2020

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/18/hello-work-or-job-centre-language-experts-japan-english

Group of language experts is taking local governments and organisations to task for their over-reliance on machine translation

11/07/2018

https://asia.nikkei.com/Economy/Japan-s-job-availability-ratio-hits-highest-in-44-years-in-May

Unemployment rate falls to 2.2% as companies grapple with labor shortage

11/07/2018

https://japantoday.com/category/features/lifestyle/kumamoto-prefectural-labor-department-issues-list-of-inappropriate-job-interview-questions

Japanese society is world-famous for valuing for harmony within groups, but what aren’t quite as well-known are Japanese companies’ penchant for on-the-job-training and flexible definitions of work responsibilities. Combined, these elements mean that even more so than in other countries, hiring ...

31/12/2017

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/12/26/commentary/japan-commentary/smes-fear-megabank-restructure/ #.Wkg2DTeWTmE

The massive restructuring being planned at major Japanese banks may result not just in job cuts for the highly-paid bank employees but a much broader, serious consequences for the economy.

31/12/2017

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/05/business/corporate-business/tokyo-startup-matches-non-college-grads-including-delinquent-youths-jobs/ #.Wkg17DeWTmE

A Tokyo startup is generating a buzz with a new job internship program that connects people who didn't graduate from college with companies hit by the deep

27/12/2016

http://www.news.com.au/finance/business/breaking-news/japan-grapples-with-stubborn-deflation/news-story/bff83716783b2f450fa971777452443f

27/12/2016

https://globalnation.inquirer.net/151068/foreign-nursing-care-workers-face-language-barrier-japan

“I would like to hear a song in Japanese.” The request was made by Marliezl Toledo, a certified care worker, who spoke kindly to a female resident of a nursing home early last month. When the woman, in her 70s, sang a children’s song, Toledo smiled and applauded.

02/01/2015

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/12a9a540-8124-11e4-896c-00144feabdc0.html

Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe promised further economic stimulus measures after winning a new four-year term this month, but for many of Japan’s biggest companies, the challenge is not so much finding new businesses in which to invest, as

23/06/2014

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2014/06/14/lifestyle/happy-ending-foreigners-working-japans-film-industry/ #.U6fGgvmSxaY

Film is supposed to be a universal language, but the film business in any given country is usually run by the locals for the locals. The one great exceptio