Business

Mitigation of disparities between regular and non-regular employees and “Equal Pa ...

Recently, the mass media has widely reported about court cases in which fixed-term employees seek mitigation of disparities between the work ...

Tips on increasing the satisfaction of older working people

Revision of the Law Concerning Stabilization of Employment of Older Persons in 2013 introduced a continuous employment system where people c ...

“The distribution crisis is a new business opportunity” from a logistics perspective

The distribution crisis has now become a social problem. The number of packages for home delivery in FY2015 was approx. 3.7 billion and that ...

Regional companies are making great advances by burnishing their self-awareness a ...

The trend towards the hollowing-out of Japan’s manufacturing industry has dealt a major blow to local regions. As such, regional companies a ...

“Black companies” don’t recognize that they don’t regard their employees as fully ...

Incidents in which employees die from overwork or commit suicide due to illegal overtime work are continuing to occur. In recent years, the ...

Thinking about the merits and demerits of sports business makes the future of a s ...

Some feared that the Rio 2016 Olympics couldn’t be held without any problems, since various issues were pointed out prior to the opening. Ho ...

Panama Papers: Breaking the Veil of Secrecy Surrounding Tax Havens

In April of this year (2016), a report came out that confidential documents listing corporate and transaction information of tax havens were ...

Taking another look at governance in light of Toshiba accounting scandal

At a general meeting of its stockholders in June 2015, Toshiba Corporation admitted “accounting improprieties.” Thereafter, it became clear ...

The Meaning of the Shift to a Service Economy -The structural transition needed t ...

People have long spoken of the shift from products to services. While at first glance these words may seem to describe only the shift to a s ...