Unveiling the Real Japan: An American Expat's Inside Look | Hot takes, commentary, and unfiltered insights on life as a foreigner in Japan.
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Japan’s Minimum Wage Push Is Backfiring. Here Is Why.
Clinical nursing assistant job candidates checking help wanted ads in Osaka (original AI-generated image by author Mark Kennedy)
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- Japan’s Central Minimum Wage Council projects an average increase of 55 yen ($0.34) for fiscal...
Japan Is Quietly Killing the Mandatory Retirement Age
Some of Japan’s leading companies are effectively abolishing the practice of mandatory retirement (original AI-generated image by author Mark Kennedy)
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- Major Japanese firms, such as the pharmaceutical leader Shionogi & Co.,...
🍺 Introducing: “Beers with Real Gaijin” -- Let’s Talk Japan (S-01, E-01)
Once a month, I’ll open a beer, turn on the camera, and we’ll chat about recent Real Gaijin1 articles, Japan-related news, and anything else you’d like to discuss. There’s no formal agenda. No presentation. It’s just a chance to interact di...
Japan's 2040 Labor Shortage Is Already in the Crib
Believe it or not, scenes like this have become relatively commonplace in Japanese maternity wards which used to have many more babies (original AI-generated image by author Mark Kennedy)
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- Japan’s population of children unde...
Japan Overtime Rules Shift: What the September MHLW Guidance Change Means
This change marks a shift from a simple numerical rule toward company-level compliance, health safeguards, and management judgment (original AI-generated image by author Mark Kennedy)
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- In September, Japan’s Ministry of Healt...
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Mark, a Chicago native, spent nearly three decades navigating the corporate world of Tokyo. But in a bold move, he ditched the suit and tie in his early fifties, seeking a simpler life in the heart of Japan's countryside on the island of Kyushu.
Australian-Kiwi serial entrepreneur based in Tokyo, Japan for 44 years
I'm a historian with a lifelong fascination for the smaller stories of world history. How did ordinary people experience the great (and small) events of history? In this feed, I focus on Japanese history from the bottom up.
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