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FREELANCE

Miho Koshiba started her career in finance before she founded the Mirai Institute, a think tank that operates the Midori.so coworking space with an ever-growing cosmopolitan community across seven locations in Tokyo.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
Jun 28, 2025
Miho Koshiba: ¡®Wouldn¡¯t it be nice if people looked forward to Mondays?¡¯
The cofounder of the Midori.so coworking space shares her inspirations and aspirations for career and community.
Shogakukan's office in Tokyo. The Fair Trade Commission issued a warning to Shogakukan and Kobunsha for failing to clearly indicate terms and conditions for freelancers they outsource work to.
JAPAN
Jun 18, 2025
Â鶹´«Ã½ FTC gives first warning over freelance law breaches
Shogakukan and Kobunsha, both based in Tokyo, were urged to take preventive measures under the law, which came into effect in November 2024.
The government plans to make it easier for urban workers to get side jobs in regional areas.
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 2, 2025
Government to help regional firms hire urban workers for side jobs
The subsidies are part of a program that matches corporate workers with struggling small and midsize companies in regional areas.
According to The Japan Fair Trade Commission, Kadokawa notified 26 subcontractors in January 2023 that it would unilaterally cut compensation rates for content slated for Lettuce Club from its April 2023 issue and beyond.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 13, 2024
Kadokawa warned over unfair payment practices
In a joint statement issued Tuesday, Kadokawa and its subsidiary pledged to pay the outstanding amounts once calculations are complete.
One shortcoming of the Freelance Act ¡ª a new law designed to improve the working conditions of freelancers ¡ª is that freelancers and clients don't know much about it.
JAPAN / Explainer
Oct 31, 2024
What is the Freelance Act, Â鶹´«Ã½ first-ever law to help freelancers?
The law introduces new measures to help self-employed workers. However, some shortcomings remain, experts say.
BUSINESS
Nov 22, 2023
Manga artists and taxi drivers hit as tax frustrations mount
About 4.6 million businesses that were previously exempt from paying sales tax have been impacted by a new invoice system.
The labor ministry is planning to review the workers' accident compensation program to cover all freelancers commissioned to work for companies.
BUSINESS
Nov 20, 2023
Japan to expand workers¡¯ accident compensation for freelancers
The measure is aimed at creating an environment in which freelancers can work with a sense of security.
The new invoice system, which goes into effect Oct. 1, is forcing many freelancers in Japan to choose between raising their prices or suffer a 10% loss in revenue.
COMMUNITY / How-tos
Sep 25, 2023
Freelancers aren¡¯t happy with Â鶹´«Ã½ new invoice system
For many freelancers and small businesses, the result will amount to a 10% increase in taxes.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Jun 1, 2023
How remote work connected employees making $19 an hour and $80,000 a year
Corporate employees who don¡¯t want to return to the office face tensions over how their demands compare with those of others who could never work remotely.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jan 30, 2023
Japan aims to create new law to better protect freelancers
Freelancers in Japan cover a wide range of job categories, including system engineers, designers, instructors and writers.
JAPAN
Jan 11, 2023
Japan considers new child-rearing allowance for nonregular workers
The envisioned allowance is aimed at reducing economic burdens on workers not covered by the country¡¯s child care leave system.
BUSINESS
Dec 9, 2022
Japan looks to boost protections for freelancers with new law
With business usually agreed on verbally, many freelancers experience issues with payment and disagreements over the expected work.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 16, 2022
Women and people of color can¡¯t afford to ¡®quiet quit¡¯
Staying within one¡¯s job description sounds like a solution for burnout. But the TikTok trend can have long-term repercussions, especially for certain groups.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 30, 2022
Digital nomads seek sun, sea and sustainability as remote work booms
Remote and flexible working has boomed since coronavirus lockdowns lifted, backed by a rising number of nations issuing digital nomad visas.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 6, 2022
Elon Musk¡¯s office mandate and recession fears complicate new work era
For the past few years, many white-collar workers have grown accustomed to greater flexibility in where and when they work, but today¡¯s recession fears may change that.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 30, 2021
Having a ¡®side hustle¡¯ can transform your career
Creating a product or service based around a personal experience makes it a lot easier to tell a compelling brand story and connect with prospective customers and clients.
BUSINESS
Dec 19, 2019
Â鶹´«Ã½ government to discuss ways to promote freelance work
A panel chaired by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Thursday that the government would discuss ways of promoting freelance work to create more options for people to work without being tied to an organization.
EDITORIALS
Aug 28, 2019
Protecting the interests of freelancers
Measures need to be implemented to ensure that freelancers are treated fairly by their corporate clients.
Japan Times
JAPAN
May 14, 2017
Can Japan, land of lifetime employment, handle the rise of freelancers?
For public relations specialist Mari Hirata, the perks that drew her into the world of freelancing were the flexible working hours and the opportunity to work for various companies.
Forty-five meters down, a diver races to record a fleeting moment of WWII history
Kingo Wakasa photographs the kamikaze plane wing section he discovered at the USS Emmons wreck site.
New ¡®Katsu Curry Index¡¯ aims to show how weak the yen really is
A CoCo Ichibanya curry house in Tokyo.
Mexican man arrested over attempt to smuggle some 200 lizards into Japan
Mexican alligator lizards seized by Tokyo Customs from a Mexican man who attempted to smuggle them into Japan on Saturday through Haneda Airport
Gut bacteria may be behind many of Â鶹´«Ã½ colorectal cancer cases
A Japanese research team found that a toxin produced by certain E. coli strains, colibactin, caused genetic mutations in nearly half of colorectal cancer cases studied
She is Russia¡¯s richest woman. Her business empire is going up in flames.
Tatyana Kim, the head and co-founder of Wildberries, speaks about Ukrainian drone attacks on the company's warehouses in the course of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, at an unidentified location, in this still image from a handout video released on July 31.
Forty-five meters down, a diver races to record a fleeting moment of WWII history
Kingo Wakasa photographs the kamikaze plane wing section he discovered at the USS Emmons wreck site.
Ikarigata closer to emulating older brother Fujinokawa than many think
The future Fujinokawa (third from left) and Ikarigata (right) compete against each other at ages 5 and 3, respectively.
Where do foreign residents in Japan want to die?
The Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery is one of the few cemeteries in Japan that allows burials, albeit with conditions for the deceased, including foreign nationality and permanent residency in Kanagawa Prefecture.
¡®Total whiplash¡¯: Foreign residents react to Â鶹´«Ã½ changing permanent residency rules
The entrance to the Tokyo Immigration Bureau in Minato Ward, Tokyo, in March. For some foreign residents of Japan, tightening measures for permanent residency have become one factor in a broader calculation over whether remaining in the country makes financial sense over the long term.
As Â鶹´«Ã½ concrete jungles sizzle, urban forestry offers an all-natural fix
People and birds find relief from the sun in Tokyo's Nakano Ward earlier this month. While experts agree that urban greening is crucial to mitigating the impact of climate change, trees are becoming even more scarce in Japanese cities.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo¡¯s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo¡¯s ¡®stadium of desire¡¯

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Disaster relief workers Taichi Kato (left) and Seiji Yoshimura enter the collapsed living quarters at Kyuganji temple in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto Prefecture.
What Kumamoto revealed about Â鶹´«Ã½ earthquake readiness
By Alex K.T. Martin

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