
What’s going on in Japanese HR? Online seminar in English July 3 2025 (3pm – 4:30pm BST, 4pm to 5:30pm CEST, 10:00am to 11:30am East Coast)
Human resource management in Japan has changed radically over the past decade. What does this mean if your company has employees in Japan, or your parent company is Japanese?
Japanese HR buzzwords explained:
- The JTC – Japanese Traditional Company – lifetime employment, seniority based promotion and the company union
- The twice yearly bonus season
- The Ice Age generation and the Yutori generation
- Job gata/job-based hiring, job type system
- Haizoku gacha – random assignments
- Re-skilling
- Black company, overtime and karoshi (death from overwork)
- Hara hara – harassing about harassment
- The end of the nomikai (after work drinks party)?
- Taishoku daiko – proxy quitting
- Remote work and hybrid working in Japan
- Purpose
- Q&A
Facilitator: Pernille Rudlin
Further details, registration and payment on – Ticket Tailor
Note: Direct competitors of Japan Intercultural Consulting and their employees are not allowed to enroll in this seminar.
Participant numbers will be limited to 25 to ensure interactivity
We reserve the right to postpone or cancel the seminar should there not be sufficient participant numbers