In today's troubled economy, one type of employee that has borne the brunt of all the head-cutting at most major Japanese corporations over the last 3 months is those people over 50 years old. Here at DaiJob.com, we are being inundated with resumes from highly skilled and highly experienced people who are on the wrong side of 50 and have already been fired or soon will be...

If you were asked, "Which period between 1940 and now led to the largest loss of male workers from Japan's economy?" You probably would answer World War II, since during the period 1939 through to the surrender in August of 1945, around 2,000,000 soldiers, over 3% of the population, perished in the pursuit of Emperor and empire. However, in fact the period of greatest loss (but not necessarily loss of life) of males from the Japanese workforce is...

I had never seen a 'kubariya,' but I knew they existed. For me the kubariya was an unidentified mysterious animal (UMA) in which I fervidly believed, just as some Japanese believe in the existence of the 'kappa,' a mischievous water sprite with a saucerlike object on its head. It was perhaps 10 years ago...

The nurse filling out the prescription said that they would give our daughter Tamiflu. We were concerned at hearing that, since we'd heard the media reports about the drug and didn't want to take any chances. But the nurse told us that the alternative drug was "sold out" because everyone was looking to switch from Tamiflu. So it was either the Roche drug...