Foreigners in Japan sound off on the top four quirks of the Japanese job-hunting system soranews24.com

Japanese research organization Disco, which conducts surveys on job-hunting foreign students in Japan every year, recently polled them on what the biggest oddity of the Japanese job-hunting system was.
Such a serious approach to work and perhaps the lack of fun in general probably irked some foreign students.
The Japanese government aims to accept 300,000 foreign students by 2020, placing great emphasis on their smooth transition into Japanese companies to boost the current aging workforce.
There has been a recent surge of newly graduated job-hunting foreign students in Japan.
The reality, however, is that only about 50 percent of job-seeking foreign students manage to find jobs here.