TT-779 -- Labor Law Changes to Create New Underclass? E-biz news from Japan.

Japan is undergoing a massive labor sea-change, and is creating two classes of workers -- the privileged and the rest of irregular workers.

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TT-746 -- T'attitude Needs Change, E-biz news from Japan

In 2012 the mayor of Osaka, Toru Hashimoto, came out "full blast" with a policy that outlawed tattoos -- in the Osaka government at least. Specifically, he ordered a stop to city employees getting inked.

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TT-743 -- Things Not Looking Good for Abenomics, Ebiz news from Japan

Economists and businesspeople will be speculating about what will happen to the Japanese economy after the consumption tax increases from 5% to 8%, and therefore what will happen to Abenomics.

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TT-740 -- Nine New Trends for 2014, ebiz news from Japan

The first edition of Terrie's Take for 2014. We take a peek into the future and ask ourselves what trends or macro developments might happen and what impact they will have on doing business in Japan.

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TT-739 -- Nine Events in 2013 That Will Change Us, ebiz news from Japan

This year's summary of key events revolves in around the role of government intervention and the trends that such politically-driven activity will have on our businesses in 2014.

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TT-737 -- Defense as a Service (DaaS), ebiz news from Japan

Instead changing the Constitution and the U.N. Security Council an interim solution could be to employ private military companies, working on the behalf of the Japanese government to get "sticky" stuff done.

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TT-735 -- Vested Interests and Abenomics, ebiz news from Japan

Rakuten CEO Mikitani is voicing what many other Japanese businesspeople think, that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Abenomics could be doomed by his government's inability to deal with vested interest groups.

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TT-729 -- Can Abe Get Companies to Increase Salaries? E-biz news from Japan

The Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry (METI) announced that their officials will be visiting companies and asking them (read, arm-twisting) to increase wages, a part of PM Shinzo Abe's stimulus package.

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TT-714 -- Employees: Breaking Up is Hard to Do. E-biz news from Japan

Economists reckon that 10% of employees (about 4.5m people) in Japanese companies are redundant, and if they could, companies would let that many go in order to increase productivity.

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TT-712 -- JA is the Problem, Not Farmers. Ebiz news from Japan

There are a number of lobby groups in Japan that have been trying to hold back TPP, among them the medical, education, insurance, and legal sectors, but the one group with the greatest sway over TPP is the farming lobby.

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