I never thought of it as a trend, but over the last year, more and more skilled non-Japanese executives have been coming to me asking for help to find a new job after being laid off. Despite the improving economy, these people are getting laid off either because they are aged over 45 - an age over which companies are openly saying they don't want to employ otherwise suitable candidates – or because there is an anti-...

I received an interesting question from a reader in Germany the other day, who is a software developer, and asked me whether he could get business from clients in Japan, but work remotely in Germany. This method of working is commonly called off-shoring in the software industry and as a...

One marked difference about working for a foreign firm in Japan versus the home country is that most of the technology jobs are support and implementation roles than design and solutions oriented. This is because, simply, most foreign firms have their IT standards and requirements mandated by headquarters. Thus, the demand for engineers and PC/networking experience...

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