In this city that radiates in the harsh glare of multicolored neon signs, it`s the plain white lights, glowing in checkerboard patterns through office windows, that stand out. It`s after 9 p.m., an… ...

Official figures show that Japanese workers are 40% less efficient than Americans. They are also significantly less productive than the French or the Germans. But Hitoshi Miura, director of finance at ...

Anime characters often face challenges that connect to long-standing Buddhist and Shintō teachings. In this course, students ...

Daisuke Nakajima and Jeffrey Korzenik’s “How America Can Bring the Japanese Economic Miracle Stateside” (op-ed, June 6) doesn’t take into account work ethic. The U.S. has embraced ...

TOKYO — Death from too much work is so commonplace in Japan that there is a word for it — karoshi. There is a national karoshi hotline, a karoshi self-help book and a law that funnels m… ...

How Japan's youth are slowly changing the country's work ethic A dwindling pool of labor is quietly trying to reshape office culture into something more flexible — and uncertain ...

Japan's work ethic is renowned world-wide, but it's not all bowing and long hours. There are some really lovely ideas that any workplace could steal to increase teamwork and happiness. The ...

Japanese people have a strong work ethic. Uh no they don't! They have a strong love of staying in the office for inordinate amounts of time and being incredibly inefficient. The idea that Japanese ...