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		<title>The Gender Issue continued</title>
		<link>http://work.3yen.com/2005-11-21/women-in-the-workforce/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2005 02:10:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Victor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Japan, with its falling population, plans to toughen its gender equality laws, making it easier for women to resume working after having children. &#8220;The Health and Welfare Ministry will propose an amendment to the 1986 law that would ban employers from treating women unfavourably because they are pregnant or have young children. Employers would also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>So, am I redundant, or what? Part I</title>
		<link>http://work.3yen.com/2005-11-13/so-emamem-i-redundant-or-what-part-one/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2005 04:06:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Victor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our company has just been through a re-structuring, a Company Renaissance &#8212; seems our boss had a brainfart late one night. The office has been divided into &#8220;teams&#8221;, with the suits, sorry, salespeople renamed &#8220;Producers&#8221; and team members renamed &#8220;Team Leader&#8221;, &#8220;Meh&#8221; or &#8220;Assistant Newdude&#8221;, according to time served. This, after we were already comfortable [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Morning stretch</title>
		<link>http://work.3yen.com/2005-11-12/morning-stretch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2005 00:05:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Victor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[These guys are at it every morning the sun is out, perhaps inside when it&#8217;s not. Nothing like doing your morning exercises together to build team spirit while keeping fit &#8230;

I only wish I could give you the background music &#8212; they&#8217;re stretching to the theme of Rocky!
There is also this phenomenon, more common among [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Time?</title>
		<link>http://work.3yen.com/2005-10-27/no-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2005 06:16:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Victor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No time to brush your teeth in the morning? No problem! Grab a pack of NoTime chewing gum.

Listed under &#8216;Gourmet Foods&#8217; at Amazon.
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		<title>The Gender Issue</title>
		<link>http://work.3yen.com/2005-08-30/the-gender-issue/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2005 03:46:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Victor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;As a woman, I can rise much higher at a foreign company than at a Japanese one,&#8221; says Yuka Tanimoto. &#8220;The Japanese business culture is not changing quickly enough for people like me.&#8221; TIME Asia&#8217;s August 29 cover story provides disquieting insight into the current situation for modern Japanese women in the workplace and at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Man up, Nancy</title>
		<link>http://work.3yen.com/2005-07-14/man-up-nancy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2005 00:56:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Victor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In response to Taro&#8217;s rather sardonic words of wisdom (see: &#8220;Getting a job in Japan, the hard way&#8221;) you gotta be a little harder than that.
True: it&#8217;s not easy starting off in a foreign country. You don&#8217;t know the people, the culture, the language or the lay of the land. You need to establish food, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s in a name?</title>
		<link>http://work.3yen.com/2005-06-14/whats-in-a-name/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2005 13:15:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Victor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Monday morning, I&#8217;m not quite feeling on top of my game just yet. Still, regretfully, I automatically open my email upon starting up my mac. The last thing I can be arsed dealing with at the first is a slew of emails demanding activity of my brain right off the bat or reminders of inferior [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paradigm Shift</title>
		<link>http://work.3yen.com/2005-05-01/paradigm-shift/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2005 04:27:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Victor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been away from this post for a few weeks as I&#8217;ve simply been too busy working to be thinking about writing about it.
I&#8217;d like to take this belated opportunity to share with those of you not already wise to a most convenient word of the Japanese language. This word, like so many other Japanese [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How do I get a job in Japan?</title>
		<link>http://work.3yen.com/2005-03-21/how-do-i-get-a-job-in-japan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2005 05:47:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Victor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are fortunate enough to be coming to Japan with a transfer within your current company, riding on a rather sweet Ex-Pat package, power to you. If not, chances are you&#8217;re coming armed with little more than what you already know of the place and an interest in finding out more. Two important questions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ah, the hours&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://work.3yen.com/2005-02-27/ah-the-hours/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Feb 2005 01:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Victor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, it&#8217;s true &#8212; the average Japanese worker clocks a quixotic number of hours at the workplace in their lifetime, enough to cause your average Non-Japanese to heave in disbelief and breathe a sigh of relief with the knowledge that they work elsewhere. The proverbial hard slog is quite possibly nowhere more apparent in the [...]]]></description>
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