The ruling coalition and government are discussing the possibility of allowing part-timers who work for an […]
Three Chinese women working in a training program fled their workplace in Aomori Prefecture early Monday […]
The government plans to make it mandatory, and no longer voluntary, that all companies in Japan […]
Sixteen Hello Work job-placement offices under the jurisdiction of the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry’s Osaka […]
… Japan granted refugee status to 46 asylum- seekers in 2005, a record high since 1983. Although […]
The labor ministry kicked off studies at an expert panel Wednesday to review a job training […]
A black American man won a partial victory Wednesday in a discrimination suit against a shopkeeper […]
The ratio of dispatched workers to regular corporate employees in Japan came to 12.4% last year, […]
An investigation last year by the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry on companies using the trainees […]
Fundamentally, [Hidenori] Sakanaka [former head of the Tokyo Immigration Bureau] argues, the issue before Japan is what […]