We continue our visa questions with Marc Bergman of Strata Works, a local company consisting of accountants, judicial scriveners, immigration specialists and patent attorneys that offer a variety of services to allow clients to concentrate on their core businesses...

The upheaval in the telecommunications industry that started in 2000 with the meltdown of many leading data centers is still going on. From the data centers, the data carriers were affected, then the telco's owning the infrastructure, and now the wired providers versus the wireless ones. Japan passed the point of having more wireless customers than wired ones about a year ago, and the ensuing shakeout of both sectors has been happening ever since. One of the biggest movers and shakers is of course...

With the general grinding down of the Japanese economy, more and more senior foreign managers, particularly expats, are getting their pink slips and wondering what to do next. Of course, the natural first reaction is to get back out there in the market and find another position. But things really are getting tight at the...

This last week a small but high-profile English school called Lado International College of Japan declared bankruptcy in the Tokyo District Court and has subsequently shut down. Surprisingly, there has been very little coverage by the foreign press, possibly because of the sketchy details. The Asahi newspaper quoted Teikoku Databank as saying that Lado has left debts of...