Expedia Japan recently released the results of an annual survey that corroborates the stereotype many folks […]
The Tokyo District Court handed down its verdict in the Fujibi case last February, with the […]
Venerable site: Students taking part in an anti-war rally file out through the gates of Tohoku University in Sendai in 1950. The storied university recently revealed that it plans not to renew the fixed-term contracts of up to 3,200 employees, thereby ensuring that they will not be able to become regular staff according to a recent revision to the Labor Contract Law. | KYODO
I have discussed the “five-year rule” several times before in this column — the revision of […]
A 24-year-old pressured to work long, hard hours beyond what she could tolerate at the largest […]
Let me apologize up front for tackling an issue that is not purely about labor per se. […]
Pop quiz: Which of these types of government worker has the right to strike — tax inspectors, schoolteachers, firefighters or public health workers? Answer: None of the above, thanks to an Occupation-era law designed to tamp down the influence of communism. | KYODO
I research labor law and teach it to university students. In the first class, I break […]
On May 4, a tiny cafe in Tokyo’s Koenji neighborhood was transformed into an informal meeting […]
Eleven years ago, baseball players walked off the field in protest for the first time in […]
By Justine Underhill At 3 a.m. on Monday morning, Eriko Fujita leaves the IBM offices in Tokyo. She rushes home […]
執行委員長奥貫妃文が、フランスのリベラシオン誌Arnaud Vaulerin記者より、マタハラの件で取材を受けました。記事のメインはマタハラネット代表の小酒部さやかさん。奥貫は、マタハラが起こる背景や法規定との関連についてコメントしました。 Executive president Hifumi Okunuki got interviewed by Liberation in the French press journalist  Arnaud Vaulerin  about Japanese matahara […]

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