Terrie's Job Tips -- Starting Your Own Company - Part Five: Hiring Rules

As I have said previously, hiring people can be a tedious process for the new company owner or country manager, not just from the point of view of management but also for the administration work required by the government. Most of this administration is spent assisting the authorities to track and pay levies relating to health, unemployment, pension, accidents, and similar employee benefits.

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TT-445 -- Fingerprinting 101, ebiz news from Japan

Even if you live permanently in Japan, own property, have chidren at Japanese schools, own a company and pay taxes to the Japanese government, changes to immigration procedures at Narita airport will require you to go through new rigourous checks and balances including eye-scanning and finger printing. Aside from the inconvenice, what messages is the Japanese government sending to potential foreign investors and business people? Read Terrie's Take Now

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Nov/Dec 2007 Issue

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On the cover: IT Special Feature

 

Software Solutions for J-SOX
Virtualization
Industry Analysis
IT Services Directory

 

Medical Breakthrough: A New Treatment for Cancer

 

Nov/Dec 2007
No. 74


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GW-281 -- The Hottest Gizmos and Gadgets from Japan

This week's gadget watch looks at the new Toshiba Gigabeat with the bonus of some good quality headphones, Fujitu's launch into Second Life and Buffalo's new DVD super-multi drives.

Message from the Publisher

Terrie LloydTerrie Lloyd

An interesting new trend is emerging in the wealth management sector in Japan. Not only are there around 7 million baby boomers retiring on fat retirement bonuses between this year and 2010, bringing an estimated ¥40 trillion to ¥50 trillion in to the economy, but also after four bumper years of corporate profits on the back of soaring exports, there is a swathe of newly rich—directors, shareholders, traders, bankers, and professionals supplying high-end services— who are hitting the market as well...So how rich is “rich” in Japan?

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Message from the Editor

Peter HarrisPeter HarrisJ@pan Inc started life as an IT magazine, Computing Japan. After a couple of years it broadened focus to become the wider business publication that it is today. This issue sees us return to our IT roots in the IT special feature, while our new lifestyle section, Culture & Context, breaks into new territory for us.

With the Japanese version of Sarbanes- Oxley (J-SOX) only six months away from being a reality that all listed companies in Japan will have to deal with, our cover story focuses on how the right software solution can provide the necessary visibility for top level executives to assess their internal controls.

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Letters to the Editor

Letters to the EditorRecently, Nova has been in the press yet again for all the wrong reasons, and across the land schools have been closing, students have been issued with documentation promising reimbursement of their school fees at a later date, and staff were paid late for the previous month prompting many to walk out ...

I always look forward to receiving my copy of your magazine and I greatly enjoyed the interesting interview in the last issue with international intellectual property law expert Yukio Nagasawa. In particular, I was surprised to hear of the systemic differences between the US and Japan in regard to trademark and patent application processes ...

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The Complexities of Compliance

Derek TitteringtonDerek TitteringtonBy Peter Harris

“It’s not that I’m deliberately trying to shock people all the time. I’m just doing things that are obvious to me. It’s because the public doesn’t understand my way of thinking that they get surprised.” These are the words of Livedoor’s infamous CEO Takafumi Horie, spoken during a CNN interview back in November 2005. Although there is a fair case to be made that compared to other Japanese scandal-tainted business people such as Murakami, Horie was no worse, clearly Japanese consumers need more protection from ‘surprises’ in the future.

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Virtualization

Windows XP running in a VMware virtual machine on LinuxBy Travis Cardwell

When virtualization leader Vmware went public on August 14, it was the biggest IPO since Google listed in 2004. The company is valued at US$20 billion and the forecasted sales for this year alone are over US$1 billion. Their customers include 100% of Fortune 100 companies and 84% of Fortune 1000 companies. Virtualization is currently revolutionizing the computer industry, but what is it?

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IT Services Directory

J@pan Inc's comprehensive directory of IT services in Japan that have capabilities to deal with foreign clients.

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