A survey of foreign students in Japan found that two in three had at least one part-time job. Some of the most popular kinds of jobs were in hotels, restaurants, or conveniences stores. According to a ...

Each year, fewer and fewer university students in Japan succeed in finding a full-time job before graduation. Because of low graduate employment rates, many former university students are forced to ...

Recently, there’s been a lot of talk in Japan about yami baito, or “dark part-time jobs.” The general scenario goes something like this: a help-wanted posting appears, usually online, for some sort of ...

What Japan’s increasing number of foreign workers in part-time jobs at convenience stores, fast food restaurants, and other work environments struggle with or find puzzling. A recent survey conducted ...

If a job posting looks too good to be true, it just may be. Shady part-time jobs — which have been linked to a series of home burglaries in recent months — have even been listed on reputable job sites ...

Japan has been hit by a wave of robberies committed by people who were recruited online for so-called "shady part-time jobs" promising good pay. NHK explores how crime gangs are recruiting individuals ...

Two high school students, aged 18 and 16, and a 15-year-old junior high school student were arrested in October in a city in Yamaguchi Prefecture. They were detained after walking around a residential ...

Japan lifted COVID-19 restrictions in October, so restaurants can now serve alcohol and stay open later. But eateries are finding it hard to get help and have few options but to hike wages. Part-time ...