For the last 2 months, Web chat rooms in India have been buzzing with speculation about jobs in Japan that sound too good to be true. A company called Saturn Jobs in Dubai (as of writing, the web site is still running at www.saturnjobs.com) was offering a range of positions in Shibuya, including those for accounts clerks and...

If you're living outside of Tokyo, your best bet of getting a job as an "uninvited guest" is going to be with a smaller firm wanting to export/import. In 2004, there are many mid-to-large sized firms reevaluating their foreign strategies and deciding to develop overseas markets for themselves. If you're lucky, you might wind up in a company that is...

At the start of 2003, DaiJob Inc., created a fully licensed recruiting joint venture in Hong Kong, with a partner there. The new company in Hong Kong is called DaiJob International and the joint venture with this company enables DaiJob here in Tokyo to take client requests for positions outside Japan, now meeting...

I frequently get e-mail from people who have recently decided with their Japanese spouse to return to Japan to live. Given that only 25% of Japanese live in and around Tokyo, there is a good chance that the spouse is from somewhere else. And given that the motivation of many returning Japanese is to be near their family again, the decision is...