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- Japan's Takaichi makes history, but women ask: What changes now?Japan has a new prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, the nation's first woman in the top job. However, her cabinet features few women, sparking ...22 Oct, 2025, 08.43 AM IST
- Workplace harassment: Employee's family gets Rs 9 crore after woman ends life following boss’s verbal abuseA Japanese court ordered cosmetics maker D-UP and its president, Sakai Mitsuru, to pay 150 million yen to the parents of an employee who di...15 Sep, 2025, 04.06 PM IST
- Japan has 100 billion reasons to welcome more visitorsJapan's booming tourism, projected to reach 60 million visitors by 2025, brings economic benefits but also public inconvenience. The rapid ...23 Jan, 2025, 06.06 PM IST
- Japan plans to give three weekly offs to everybody from next year to grow youngerThe Tokyo Metropolitan Government is set to implement a four-day workweek for its employees starting in April 2025, aiming to address Japan...13 Dec, 2024, 05.19 PM IST
- Japan plans automated cargo transport system to relieve shortage of drivers and cut emissionsThe project, expected to begin trial runs in the next few years and become fully operational by the mid-2030s, will include unmanned and au...03 Nov, 2024, 10.20 AM IST
- To change job-centric culture, 'workaholic' Japan wants its citizens to work for just four days a weekJapan is working to address labor shortages by promoting four-day workweeks. Though the government supports this initiative, it has been sl...31 Aug, 2024, 10.45 AM IST
- Doctor condemns Karnataka's 14-hr workday bill, says it can increase risk of heart attack, premature deaths, IT companies are asking for their proposal to be included in the revision of the Karnataka Shops and Commercial Establishments Act, 1961....22 Jul, 2024, 05.19 PM IST
- Amazon faces Black Friday protests, strikes in 40 countriesEmployees in the US, UK, India, Japan, Australia, South Africa and across Europe are demanding better wages and working conditions as the c...25 Nov, 2022, 08.26 AM IST
- Coming soon: Nap boxes for overworking employees in JapanIt will be a vertical box, so the user will have to sleep standing up. But the box will provide enough support to the head, knees and rear.21 Jul, 2022, 11.01 AM IST
- ''Like hell'': As Olympics loom, Japan health care in turmoilHospitals in Osaka, Japan's third-biggest city and only 2 1/2 hours by bullet train from Summer Olympics host Tokyo, are overflowing with c...21 May, 2021, 02.35 PM IST
- Japan's PM Shinzo Abe sets mark for days in office amid concerns about his healthAbe marked his 2,799th consecutive day in office since bouncing back to leadership in late 2012 for a second term, surpassing the previous ...24 Aug, 2020, 11.19 AM IST
- Sleeping rooms, snooze incentives: How Japanese firms are dealing with insomniaJapan has a term for death brought on by overworking or sleep deprivation: Karoshi.27 Jun, 2019, 07.55 AM IST
- Why this Japanese company is paying its employees $570 to get a full night's sleepIt is in fact true that well-rested workers are good for business.23 Oct, 2018, 12.04 PM IST
- Thousands of Japanese workers are 'Evaporating'. Read whyTormented by the shame of a lost job, failed marriage, or mounting debt, thousands of Japaneses have reportedly started leaving behind thei...02 May, 2017, 10.16 AM IST
- Not taking vacation could soon be illegal in JapanPrime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan is of the belief that Japanese people are working too hard. And he has good reason to believe so.14 Feb, 2015, 02.57 PM IST
- After Honda & Maruti Suzuki, Toyota faces labour unrest in India; are Japanese cos insensitive?After Honda, Maruti, Toyota is facing labour unrest. Is it something to do with Japanese way of pushing workers, insularity to local nuance...27 Mar, 2014, 09.08 AM IST
- Questions rise about temps, overwork at ToyotaToyota Motor Corp. has long boasted a stellar reputation for super-efficient production that has become the lore of countless business succ...10 Sep, 2008, 10.49 AM IST
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