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		<title>Otsukare sama deshita &#8211; Leaving your company</title>
		<link>http://work.3yen.com/2006-09-23/otsukare-sama-deshita-leaving-your-company/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Sep 2006 04:36:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yves</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[People usually only talk about the bad parts of working in a Japanese company. The hours, the hierarchy, and the intrusiveness of being part of a group. Ptyx was working in a design firm and he had his last day on Wednesday. His coworkers threw him a wakarekai, a &#8220;good bye&#8221; party:
Unless you’ve worked in [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://work.3yen.com/2005-03-21/how-do-i-get-a-job-in-japan/#comments</comments>
		<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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