by carterjmrn | Sep 9, 2019 | Changing World of Work
5 Lessons on business in Japan Japan’s entertainment scene was shaken last month when Yoshimoto Kogyo Co. said it terminated its management contract with 49-year-old Hiroyuki Miyasako. Yoshimoto is Japan’s largest entertainment agency, with several...
by carterjmrn | Jul 18, 2019 | Carter Group Viewpoints, Changing World of Work
In 2007, JMRN pointed out that young Japanese dads were starting to take a much more proactive role in parenting, and young moms were becoming much more independent with a deep-seated need to be recognized as autonomous individuals beyond the label Okaasan. The rising...
by carterjmrn | Jul 11, 2019 | Changing World of Work, Women Power
Following close on the heels of this blog’s recent May 21 post about Japan’s ongoing gender gap and workplace sexism, let’s get into how women’s footwear may inspire both males and females in the country to step up and give the #MeToo movement in this country some...
by carterjmrn | Jul 5, 2019 | Changing World of Work, Women Power
In spite of the well-publicized push by the government to get women to return to work after having children, the fact remains that there are barriers for women that make returning to work extremely difficult. The disparity between the idea and reality is a vice that...
by carterjmrn | Jul 2, 2019 | Changing World of Work
by Suzanne Leigh In April 2019, the new labor laws went into effect for large companies. Small companies will follow suit in April 2020. The lead-up to the eventual passing of these laws was rife with controversy. And rightly so. Potential Impacts of New Overtime Laws...
by carterjmrn | Jun 27, 2019 | Changing World of Work
What’s life like for the average worker in Japan? First, endure a stressful, claustrophobic commute on one or more vacuum-packed trains. Next, sit at desks in an open-plan workspace—the cube farms of Dilbert’s world are rare here—and unless they’re...
by carterjmrn | Jun 18, 2019 | Changing World of Work, Women Power
Before 1985, you could hardly find a Japanese woman in business doing anything more than “office lady” activities: tea serving, copy making, paper filing, etc. As a foreign manager back in the day, I was told not to give them anything outside of that, since they were...