The Atarashift Blog
Insights for working in Japan
Guides, interviews, and honest advice for international talent building a career in Japan.
The Atarashift Blog
Guides, interviews, and honest advice for international talent building a career in Japan.
The Atarashift Blog
Guides, interviews, and honest advice for international talent building a career in Japan.
29 articles
Allowances are 15.9% of the average Japanese pay packet, and most of them do not count toward your bonus or your overtime rate. How to read a Japanese offer.
Housing is where foreign residents report the most discrimination in Japan. What you pay upfront, how guarantor companies screen you, and how to get approved.
Japan caps overtime at 45 hours a month, backed by criminal penalties. Full-time workers average 13.2 hours, but transport runs three times manufacturing.
Only 6% of Coto Academy's students are on student visas. Evening and weekend Japanese classes for working professionals in Tokyo and Yokohama, from ¥20,000 a month.
Kyoto records 6.23 foreign guest-nights per resident, five times Japan's average. The full 47-prefecture ranking, plus which countries keep coming back.
Only 60% of Japanese workplaces still hold drinking parties, down from 75% in 2017. But 87.9% of invited staff attend. Here is which ones to go to.
