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 (close to 1700, according to news stories in Japan) managers all over Japan. That’s a lotta cheeseburgers!
Some people on the internet have been reporting that while people with Chinese flags were allowed to enter the goal area for the Olympic torch relay in Nagano, people with the Tibetan flag were not. According to this report, about 200 Tibet supporters were led to the back side of the park and told that…
CNN reports that American Poet and University of Wyoming Professor Craig Arnold is missing after setting out alone to climb a volcano known as Kuchinoerabujima. The CNN article above mentions that Arnold was on a fellowship in Japan doing research for a book on volcanoes. Not much is mentioned about Kuchinoerabujima (or Kuchinoerabu Island). The…
22 Year-Old Japanese Student Believed World’s Youngest to Clone a Mouse(article in Mainichi Daily News) Hey! I don’t want any more young people cloning any more things! It’s bad enough when they have kids and then bleach their hair! What’s next, the guys going to create a bunch of pocket monsters and we’ll have a…
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…
I’m just going to post some of my thoughts on IKEA Japan as seen through the eyes of someone who’s been to IKEA in both the U.S. and Japan. Things they are doing right: Paid to have a station named after them on the Port-Liner train (which takes people from downtown Kobe to Kobe Airport)….
I know, I know, I love these top 10 lists that come out. Even if they don’t mean anything they sure put a little spotlight on Japan for us. This poll is especially fun because if you’ve been here going on fifteen years like some newzjapan bloggers I know, you learned Japanese watching some of…