Entries Tagged as 'Government'

Sunday, October 28th, 2007

Hello work

I am looking for a job at the moment and a Japanese friend suggested I go to “Hello Work”. Hello work is a government run place to help people find work in Japan.
My experience with Hello Work is that no one in the office could speak English and there are little or […]

Saturday, October 27th, 2007

Japan to require all foreigners to be fingerprinted

From next month all foreigners entering Japan and those already living there will need to be fingerprinted. The move is to prevent terrorism in the country even though to date there has never been a terrorist act committed in Japan by a foreigner.
“It certainly doesn’t make people who’ve been here for 30 […]