The UQ Communications booth, center, is seen at Wireless Japan 2009. (Mainichi) "My company is in its second year of work-style reform. But I opposed the changes to our working culture proposed by Ms.

A package of work-style reform bills that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe saw as one of the greatest highlights of the ongoing Diet session has passed both chambers of the legislature. The systemic reforms ...

Economist Tsuru Kōtarō assesses the virtues, failings, and implications of the government’s action plan for “work-style reform” in a political and economic context and discusses the challenges that ...

The Nihon Keizai Shimbun Group has promoted the Nikkei Smart Work project since 2017, with the aim of encouraging corporations to improve their productivity by implementing more diverse and flexible ...

To attract and retain personnel, prefectural governments across Japan are increasingly shifting to a flexible work-style system that allows employees to take three days off a week. According to a ...

A package of work-style reforms, which Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says is at the top of his agenda for this legislative session, will soon be on the way to the Diet for deliberations. It will feature ...

Japan is too convenient: Does that prevent it from achieving work style reform? Most Japanese people including myself who have had the experience of living in North America or Europe probably feel ...

One of the biggest buzzwords in Japanese business these days is hatarakikata kaikaku, or “work style reforms.” After generations of grinding down rank-and-file workers, Japanese companies and ...