Nikkei Newspaper on June 17, 2019 Japanese universities including Tohoku University have been challenging to increase female faculties and now the challenge is starting to bearing fruit. They set up large day-care centers within the campus, and try to hire women only to encourage women to stay in their study or their schools. More women […]
Continue reading
Is it true that more Japanese young people are becoming serious about giving back to society?
Continue reading
Microsoft Japan is going to start a new project this summer called “Work Life Choice” which encourages employees to take 3 days off a week for better work efficiency. https://news.microsoft.com/ja-jp/2019/04/22/20190422-ms-worklifechoice2019/
Continue reading
Keidanren and universities agreed to change the rules on hiring new grads. Many Japanese companies start to “book” good students to hire as early as June and they are trying to move it even earlier. This is causing problems because students are too preoccupied with securing their jobs to focus on studying. Keidanren decided to […]
Continue reading
Interesting article from Nikkei. More people who are over 50 years old are changing jobs than before. The number doubled in the last three years. It used to be believed that the age limit for changing jobs was 35, but it is obviously not true now due to the serious shortage in the workforce. These skilled people […]
Continue reading
President Annie Chang was featured on the video clip for the ACCJ Women in Business Summit 2019!
Continue reading
Annie Chang appeared as a panelist for Google Techmaker event for International Women’s Day. They discussed how to help more women enter into the technology field and be successful. In conclusion, Community support is equally important as mentorship and sponsorship
Continue reading
On February 28, 2019 at ANA Intercontinental Tokyo, Annie Chang moderated the panel session at “Women Entrepreneurs: Opportunities, Obstacles and Successes” in the ACCJ Women in Business Summit 2019. The four amazing panelists were female business leaders with various backgrounds and their stories were so inspiring. Attendees asked many questions in the Q & A session. […]
Continue reading
President Annie Chang was invited to join as a panelist at Holland High Tech Seminar on Jan. 30 (within Nano Tech 2019 at Tokyo Big Sight). From a female entrepreneur’s point of view, she talked about startup ecosystem, current situations of startups established by women and joined by women, and differences between Japan and other […]
Continue reading
Everything about employment in Japan is changing. Lifetime employment is gone. Skilled workers are discovering that they have job mobility and large Japanese companies are increasingly confused by the fact that many new graduates don’t want to work for them. https://disruptingjapan.us9.list-manage.com/track/click…
Continue reading