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 ...

Recently, there’s been a lot of talk in Japan about yami baito, or “dark part-time jobs.” The general scenario goes something like this: a help-wanted posting appears, usually online, for some sort of ...

Attendees listen to a company's recruiter at a job fair for foreign students, in Tokyo's Minato Ward in this photo provided by Vein Global Inc. TOKYO -- Numerous foreign students in Japan want to work ...

Japan’s labor market remained largely tight in March, supporting momentum for wage hikes, while uncertainties over the global trade war continue to darken the outlook. The jobless rate ticked up to ...

TOKYO, March 10 (Reuters) - Japan may see corporate bankruptcy cases hit an 11-year high in the fiscal year to March as some firms go under due to a lack of workers, a think tank survey showed, a sign ...

CHIBA--Students descended on a job fair organized by the Chiba prefectural authorities at the Makuhari Messe convention hall here in December. “Do you have a five-day workweek?” one of the students ...