Japan’s tradition of lifetime employment, or “full-time” employment, is crumbling. “Part-time” positions have ballooned to create an underclass of 20 million temporary workers, including an increasing ...

There is a so-called "Yami Baito (闇バイト·Yamibaito)," a new type of crime method that has recently emerged as the biggest problem in Japanese society. It refers to a group of young people who commit ...

On a sunny morning in June, a middle-aged lawyer named Yoshimasa Obayashi heard his telephone ring once, and nearly ring again, before he rushed to snatch the phone’s receiver from its cradle. It was ...

Japan Display Inc., or JDI, said Thursday that it will cut about 1,500 jobs in Japan — or nearly 60% of its domestic workforce — as it has remained in the red for 11 consecutive years. The same day, ...

The doors open only once. That’s how people often describe Japan’s hidebound hiring system, in which college students have their best shot at landing a coveted salaried position in the year ...

Kawata Yasutoshi was never cut out for traditional Japanese corporate life. As a former guitarist in a heavy-metal band, he found working at a large electronics firm frustrating: particularly the ...

Dentsu Australia is asking its Japan parent for $300 million so it can reset local finances as it continues restructuring, ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Kazuhiro Hasegawa has been driving a taxi in Tokyo for three years. It's a job he enjoys, despite 18-hour shifts. But recently, he said, it has not been enough to make ends meet. The ...