ETJ Expos for English teachers in Japan
From October to early December, English teachers from all kinds of teaching environments will gather at the ETJ (English Teachers in Japan) ....
28 Sep 11:37 am  from  Unknown   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Foreigners in business: Exporting fresh Japanese food by air
We often take a look at foreign residents who have started their own businesses in Japan, branching out on their own. This story is of an I....
28 Sep 9:22 am  from  Unknown   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Tales from the Eikaiwa: Teaching a lesson he won’t forget
If you teach private English lessons in Japan, then you have would perhaps fit into two categories. Some teachers find and build great rapp....
27 Sep 1:52 pm  from  Unknown   [Profile]  [Recent] 
cheese cake cheese cake
breakfast: coffee & “petit four” lunch: ganmodoki & rice topped with colorful veggie curry from muji (149kcal) dessert: lefto....
24 Sep 10:55 pm  from  it will stop raining*   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Upper Intermediate Lesson #20 – Karoushi – Working to Death 4
Do you feel overworked? Think you might be working yourself to death? In Japan, people really do, quite literally, work themselves to death ....
23 Sep 6:30 pm  from  JapanesePod101   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Foreigners in business: Leading a digital ‘evilution’
Ask Enrique Bonansea what his company emonster does and he is likely to say they build the unbuildable, what others say cannot be done or do....
22 Sep 1:28 pm  from  Unknown   [Profile]  [Recent] 
New Text Books for Japan’s teachers next year
Alarmed that its students are falling behind those in rival nations such as South Korea and Hong Kong, Japan is adding about 1,200 pages to ....
21 Sep 1:45 pm  from  Unknown   [Profile]  [Recent] 
september 18 2010: birthday cake
breakfast: coffee & maple-syrup flavored english muffin. went to bed around one only to wake up before five and be told the phoners got....
20 Sep 9:48 pm  from  it will stop raining*   [Profile]  [Recent] 
san francisco
breakfast: coffee & some potato chips that i found at work. i was gonna get a box of caloriemate at the vending machine on my way to wo....
16 Sep 9:53 pm  from  it will stop raining*   [Profile]  [Recent] 
eavesdropping
breakfast: coffee & soyjoy strawberry (133kcal) x2 lunch: rice topped with szechuan sesame hot soup from muji (163kcal), daikon salad,....
15 Sep 9:19 pm  from  it will stop raining*   [Profile]  [Recent] 
oshiruko
breakfast: coffee & all osatsu cookies (396kcal) lunch: somen in chicken ball soup & leftover hijiki and carrot with mashed tofu ....
14 Sep 9:57 pm  from  it will stop raining*   [Profile]  [Recent] 
The 10 most popular businesses for foreigners to start up in Japan
The website Kigyojapan.com (Entrepreneur Japan) has listed the top 10 businesses that are most popular with foreigners who start their own c....
14 Sep 2:56 pm  from  Unknown   [Profile]  [Recent] 
doc pomus
breakfast: coffee, chame (which i did not finish as it wasn’t remotely sweet), & shiruko sand biscuits (biscuits with a thin layer of....
13 Sep 11:03 pm  from  it will stop raining*   [Profile]  [Recent] 
In the Office on a Sunday
This is certainly a rare case: It’s Sunday, and I’m sitting in the office!  This is the second time I’ve worked on a Sunday for a com....
12 Sep 9:00 am  from  Unknown   [Profile]  [Recent] 
flash!
breakfast: coffee, epi, & cranberry and cashew nuts bagel from polka lunch: olive and cheese rustique with pesto and miso-marinated eg....
11 Sep 11:55 pm  from  it will stop raining*   [Profile]  [Recent] 
the orchard
breakfast: coffee & apple with peanut butter lunch: instant miso ramen with a few drops of sesame oil and miso-marinated egg, edamame,....
10 Sep 9:08 pm  from  it will stop raining*   [Profile]  [Recent] 
january and february
breakfast: coffee & more bread from polka that’s olive ciabatta and fig and cashew nut rustique. lunch: veggie juice & leftover ....
7 Sep 8:10 pm  from  it will stop raining*   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Paul Taylor: The ultimate serviced office
For many companies looking to set up shop in Japan, it is usually not worth the investment early on to rent an office. Serviced offices pres....
7 Sep 11:06 am  from  Unknown   [Profile]  [Recent] 
JPCP Report August 2010
JPCP has been really great so far and it’s time to write up its first full monthly report. JPCP (The Japan Photo Compens....
7 Sep 1:08 am  from  Yonasu   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Back – again, for real
The three day conference in Kobe is over. It was just on the heels of the Paris conference, so I've really had no time to sort out the ....
6 Sep 11:05 am  from  Janne In Osaka   [Profile]  [Recent] 
John Williams: A foreign movie producer in Japan
John Williams has been making films since he was 14. Growing up in Wales, Williams had little idea where his passion for filmmaking would ta....
3 Sep 9:55 am  from  Unknown   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Japanese women stand low on the corporate ladder
Twenty five years have passed since Japan passed the Equal Employment Opportunity Law for Men and Women in order to fight gender inequality ....
30 Aug 11:57 am  from  Unknown   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Remaining upbeat in a down economy
Although the economy in Japan is slowly jugging along, it certainly isn’t back to the full health of recent years and the strong yen is pr....
30 Aug 11:43 am  from  Unknown   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Geek guide to life
This excellent – and useful in a practical sense – infographic popped up on Geekolgie over the weekend. For both the hard-up job seeker....
30 Aug 11:21 am  from  Unknown   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Google Top IT Brand in Japan
We covered a while ago how Google has become the number one choice of where to work for graduates in Japan and now comes this; PCWorld is re....
27 Aug 12:00 pm  from  Unknown   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Everybody Wants To Be a CEO
The Wall Street Journal, via its Japan Real Time blog, has an interesting post that looks at both the effect that newspapers still have in J....
26 Aug 10:51 am  from  Unknown   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Soaring yen could threaten disaster for jobs, but profits for some
Sections of the Japanese press have been warning that Prime Minister Naoto Kan’s “economic tone deafness,” demonstrated by his failure....
25 Aug 12:23 pm  from  Unknown   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Companies struggle to deal with workers’ Twitter addiction
Users of Twitter in Japan are said to be up to 10 million and rising. Unfortunately, its convenience and accessibility have spilled over int....
25 Aug 9:40 am  from  Unknown   [Profile]  [Recent] 
When things go tits-up
It’s a shame when one can’t be as effective as one would like to be. I was giving a presentation today for one of committees of the Ame....
24 Aug 8:06 pm  from  Tame Goes Wild   [Profile]  [Recent] 
The end of the JET program?
As part of the cuts being driven by Renho, the government minister in charge of reigning in Japan’s huge public spending, there is a possi....
23 Aug 9:15 am  from  Unknown   [Profile]  [Recent] 
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