I was glancing at some of the clothes for sale on the Yahoo! Japan’s auction service today when I came across a jacket which was advertised as Abercrombie & Fitch. The genius seller of the auction was kind enough to offer proof of the authenticity of the jacket by providing a close-up photo of the…
Generally in Japan, kids graduate from college in early Spring and then start working on April first. They generally need a lot of training in order to learn the right way to work. It’s not as crazy as people see on tv (like the scene in the first season of Heroes in which Hiro is…
McDonald’s Japan is in trouble now. After having lost a previous lawsuit for overtime pay from a manager, more are coming now from past and present managers who also found themselves effectively being paid less and worked more after promotion. This article out today shows that McDonald’s Japan is going to have to start trying…
A very interesting case because of the TYPE of data that was being kept. Things like “Her husband is Indian, the worst.” I think this is a bad translation of “saitei” meaning that she (or he) is just the lowest. Just a big put down. Another example that was in the Japanese news was listing…
As of this writing the tainted gyoza (chinese dumpling) is unsolved. It’s not known whether the chemicals were put into the gyoza in China or Japan. Needless to say that when the story first broke, it was all about China. I blame the reactionary, business-minded media… luckily Japanese and Chinese officials are talking about the…
Obviously McDonald’s decided to appeal the ruling that said a McDonald’s manager doesn’t have enough autonomy over his own hours and the people under him to be exempt from the laws that require overtime payment. I say “obviously” because if they take this ruling, they’ll end up paying tons of yen to over a thousand…
Companies always find creative ways around paying overtime to employees. Apparently America based companies are no different… though to be fair, because of Japanese economic policies it’s hard for foreign companies to enter Japan without some kind of Japanese base. (Hence pepsi is put out by Suntory, Walmart bought into Seiyu…). Anyway, teachers are among…