The most popular type of MBA in Japan is a part-time one, whereby you can continue working. This means attending school in the weekends with the occasional block course. While the rest of the tertiary education world is going back to school in April, one school, McGill, starts its 2004 classes in June. This gives you...

Something that many people back home consider in order to get an edge in the job market is an MBA. So it may surprise some people to know that education-obsessed Japan has very few MBA courses and less than 10,000 people studying for an MBA nationwide - just a fraction of those doing the same thing in the USA and elsewhere. So where do you go about getting one? If I assume that you are already located and working here...

For Westerners coming to Japan for the first time, the biggest concerns are usually finding a job and accommodation, and getting a visa. But once you're here, a myriad of smaller concerns start to pop up, one of the most important of which is food. If you don't get the right energy source, you'll...

Yes, you read that title right, today's topic is not politically correct, but it is a reality... Japan is known as a nation of workaholics. Regardless of what you think about their productivity, the fact is that most people are expected to stay in the office from 9am to around 8pm, and even after that they are often arm-twisted in to going drinking with colleagues and/or the boss. This means that there isn't...