A wave of voluntary and early retirement programs in Japan is on track to hit a four-year high, as companies from Panasonic ...

Japan’s minister in charge of promoting its cultural exports pledged to improve working conditions for content creators as ...

Japan is hoping to tackle a worsening manpower shortage in its transportation industry by licensing up to 24,500 foreign taxi, bus, and truck drivers by fiscal year 2028. While public acceptance of ...

In Japan’s labour market, an increase in people changing jobs is occurring in the middle of a growing labour shortage, and changing traditional features of Japanese corporate culture such as lifetime ...

More job-hunting university students in Japan secured informal job offers as of Oct. 1 than a year before amid a continued ...

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 ...

The country’s traditional job-for-life model is eroding, with pressure now coming from workers who want more flexibility, autonomy and control over their careers. By Malcolm Foster TOKYO — Japan is in ...