GaijinPot is an online community for foreigners living in Japan, providing information on everything you need to know about enjoying life here, from finding a job and accommodation to having fun.
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- Japan Tech: Insight from Akihabara News
- March 2nd, 2011Category: Uncategorized
- GaijinPot is working with Akihabara News to bring the latest headlines from Japan’s huge and varied tech scene to people on the lookout for new professional opportunities. Tech is also one of the biggest employers on GaijinPot and its an area that you can expect to se ... » Continue Reading
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- Reining in Japan’s Bureaucracy
- March 2nd, 2011Category: Uncategorized
- Eighteen months ago, the Democratic Party of Japan won a landslide victory under the leadership of then-party leader Yukio Hatoyama, ousting the LDP from power after nearly fifty four years of rule. After botching talks with the United States in an attempt to relocate ... » Continue Reading
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- GameWave – A new social network to launch in English
- March 2nd, 2011Category: Arts & Entertainment
- A couple of weeks ago GaijinPot visited the officies of DeNA to get some inside info on how it is expanding overseas by hiring folks from amongst Japan's foreign community (find their jobs here). With over 20 million users in Japan, it has gone about as far as it can ... » Continue Reading
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- JAL revives the glory days with classic logo
- March 1st, 2011Category: Work Tips
- We looked at the troubled history of Japan Airlines not too long ago and in that piece, covered the problems facing its rebirth as the company tries to get past its huge debts, money-losing roots, oversized legacy business and union troubles. It also has an image pro ... » Continue Reading
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- Work in Japan – Hospitality and service industry jobs on GaijinPot
- February 28th, 2011Category: Work Tips
- GaijinPot Jobs is a place for companies in Japan looking to find the best people to fill their positions, and every week we like to bring awareness to a field of work that you might not have thought about before. In this week’s edition, we are featuring three positio ... » Continue Reading
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- Foreigners in business: The recruiting industry
- February 28th, 2011Category: Work Tips
- When the recession hit Japan in 2008, it also hit many executive recruitment companies whose clients stopped hiring. But some recruiters have managed to not only survive but grow by positioning themselves and adapting to the changing business environment. One of thos ... » Continue Reading
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- Learning Japanese – the quick, easy and fun way
- February 28th, 2011Category: Uncategorized
- Kumon's correspondence course is a Japanese learning course, including audio, video and written materials together with online review lessons, that has been designed for learners of Japanese by Kumon, one of Japan's leading education providers. The course allows Japane ... » Continue Reading
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- New Zealand earthquake – donations and support
- February 25th, 2011Category: Uncategorized
- Disaster-relief teams from many countries including Japan have been dispatched to New Zealand to help local authorities there deal with the immediate impact of this week's earthquake. Work has continued around centers such as the collapsed CTV building housing the King ... » Continue Reading
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- Tokyo’s flying girl
- February 24th, 2011Category: Uncategorized
- Every felt constrained by the tight, high-pressured life of inner-city Japan? Natsumi Hayashi was one person who did until she found a way out. In a photographic series entitled Yowa Yowa Camera Woman Diary, she has captured a number of fresh, startling and beautiful ... » Continue Reading
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- Fast Retailing to boost support for refugees in Japan
- February 24th, 2011Category: Work Tips
- Fast Retailing Co, operator of the thriving Uniqlo clothing chain, said Wednesday it will go beyond just ensuring it broadens its standard recruiting to expand support for refugees in the world under a global partnership agreement with the U.N. refugee agency — the fi ... » Continue Reading
