Japan was the country of lifetime employment, scrupulous employee loyalty and conformity, and relatively closed borders for non-Japanese professionals, right? Well, times are changing. Not fast, but ...

From Oct. 1, a new tax regulation decades in the making will go into effect — and hundreds of thousands of workers in Japan are angry. The Qualified Invoicing System, which requires taxable businesses ...

In his column this month, freelancer Ben Tallon looks at how design-led Japanese retailers can be an inspiration to freelancers who he believes would benefit from considering how their own identity as ...