BUSINESS AND ECONOMY
The Company NEET: Japan’s Employee Who’s Hardly Working
Not everyone is working hard in Japan. Meet the company NEET, a new species of employee who's flying under the radar.
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ENTERTAINMENT
Want Better Localization? Blame Corporate Greed
The entertainment industry’s unwillingness to pay skilled language professionals to produce high-quality localizations is a matter of choice.
BUSINESS AND ECONOMY
Time to Pay Up: Campaign Puts Japan’s Uniqlo on Blast
UJ talks with the organizer of a campaign that seeks to make Uniqlo pay back wages to Indonesian workers whom they say…
JAPANESE LANGUAGE
JLPT Exam: Should You Cram for It?
Should you cram for the JLPT exam? A guide on when to cram, when not to cram, and how to do it…
WOMEN
Karoshi of Love: Job Satisfaction Exploitation and “Women’s Work” in Japan
A recent case of bakers working karoshi (death by overwork) hours leads our author to see ties between labor exploitation and "woman's…
HISTORY
The Sacred Peaks: An Introduction to the Dewa Sanzan
Learn about the Dewa Sanzan, the three mountains that are the pride of Japan's north - and a deeply spiritual site for…
FEATURED
Coffee in Japan: A Short, Tasty History
Did you know canned coffee is a Japanese invention? Learn how coffee went from foreign luxury to everyday staple in Japan.
HISTORY
Mercenaries of Global Terror: Shigenobu Fusako and the Japanese Red Army
Shigenobu Fusako vowed to take the Japanese Red Army global. Her mission ended with dozens of innocent deaths.