Tag: employment

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.

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 the company abandoned.

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 work”.