Japanese authorities found that nearly 9,000 companies breached overtime laws last year. Employees at these workplaces were working more than 80 hours of overtime a month. It's so common for Japanese ...

For workers who dream of quitting but dread the thought of having to confront their boss, Japanese company Exit offers a solution: It will resign on their behalf. The six-year-old company fills a ...

A recent analysis found that the percentage of women working as regular employees in Japan tends to be lower in occupations ...

How long is too long of a lunch break? For one company in Japan, it only takes starting your break three minutes early to get punished for being a habitually late worker. An unnamed 64-year-old ...

A Japanese city official has been docked half a day’s pay for repeatedly leaving his desk for a few minutes, sparking a heated debate on social media over the severity of the punishment. The ...

The insurer’s CFO Yanela Frias maintained that Prudential of Japan “will emerge as a stronger, more resilient business that ...

Prudential of Japan, Prudential Financial's Japanese unit, will suspend its sales for an additional 180 days as the company looks to revamp the unit following employee misconduct issues. The extension ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A survey conducted by a consulting company found that 49.2% of respondents at Japanese companies have “old guys who do not work.” ...

Airline operator ANA Holdings plans to offer around $60 million worth of shares to thousands of employees, the latest Japanese company to use employee share incentives as a tool to retain talent and ...