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Some agencies welcome foreigners, then bring a special box full of units available to outsiders. Ms. X speaks passionately about the TV drama Winter Sonata and Yon-sama (Bae Yong-Joon)…
A Japanese Game Developer working in Tokyo Japan. This is the programmer life in Japan. As a Japanese game programmer you'll see what it is like commuting to work in Tokyo and going to work at …
If you are searching for a new angle to represent yourself, can we interest you in some straight lines? There are plenty of ways to personalize your hanko (also known as an inkan), the official …
For more than 100 years, a town in Nara Prefecture has been using leftover, high-quality cypres wood from the home construction process to create disposable chopsticks. But even in this pro…
For a moment in 1999, Shenmue represented the future of all video games. As such, the game was filled with daily chores, repetitious part-time work, all the stuff that, ostensibly, people p…
KYODO NEWS - 1 hour ago - 17:11 | All, JapanJapanese monkeys in a botanical garden in a hot spring resort in Hokkaido, northern Japan, relaxed on Sunday in an open-air spa as the garde…
Young men show more satisfaction, but it plummets once they hit a certain age. Japanese customer service may be legendary, but that doesn’t mean every person working in Japan loves their job.…
In just about every major train station in Japan, you’ll find a stand selling boxed lunches called ekiben. Given that trains are terrestrial transportation, and that Japan is an island nation, u…
Nissan and Renault are jointly working on development of platforms and engines and purchasing of parts under the alliance at present. Nissan launched a new management team on Sunday led by newly…
The government is studying such a tax system as once foreigners leave the country, tax investigations will prove difficult, the sources said. Countries like the United States and South Korea alr…
