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Tech tip: Your next job interview could be with an AI bot
3+ hour, 20+ min ago (1076+ words) Have you applied for a new job? If you've been shortlisted, get ready to be interviewed by artificial intelligence. Deluged by a flood of AI-generated job applications from easy-apply job boards, recruiters are turning to AI to cope. Companies are…...
Young and unemployed? Remote work, not AI, may be the problem, study finds
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (475+ words) The rise of remote work since the pandemic has made businesses more reluctant to hire young, inexperienced workers and is the key driver of higher unemployment rates for recent college graduates, a study released Monday has found. Yet for older…...
The education ministry says a record-high 84, 759 students at public schools needed Japanese-language lessons in the last academic year through March. What do you think about this?
2+ day, 3+ hour ago (253+ words) Japan Today The education ministry says a record-high 84, 759 students at public schools needed Japanese-language lessons in the last academic year through March. What do you think about this? From a bit of googling, the numbers are partly due to a…...
Foreign exchange students in Japan hit record high at over 400, 000
3+ day, 3+ hour ago (245+ words) The number of foreign exchange students in Japan as of May 2025 hit a record high of 408, 069, ahead of a government goal to reach the level by 2033 and outpacing their Japanese counterparts, data from the Japan Student Services Organization showed. The…...
Jimizo Today 12: 20 am JST
4+ day, 8+ hour ago (643+ words) Hiroshi Moriya's book is a collection of ancient Chinese maxims that encapsulate some of the Far East's most cunning tactics for battle and deception " and as such offer invaluable insights into facets of the Oriental mind. Each of these strategies…...
'My job is going': UK workers squeezed out by AI
6+ day, 3+ hour ago (1062+ words) When a client asked her a year ago to design a glossary to train an artificial intelligence system, translator Jessica Spengler realized she was going to train her own replacement. In the UK, where services account for around 80 percent of…...
We would like to broaden students" experiences and create opportunities for them to develop an interest in regional development.
1+ week, 2+ day ago (142+ words) Japan Today We would like to broaden students" experiences and create opportunities for them to develop an interest in regional development. A senior education ministry official. The ministry is launching a pilot project to encourage students from urban universities to…...
Some jobs have too few workers, some too many: What's Japan to do?
1+ week, 2+ day ago (442+ words) Are humans necessary after all? Designers, office workers, accountants, train engineers, white collar types in general, are the ones in excess. To boil it down to essentials: comfortable jobs overflow with applicants while physically demanding and/ or mentally stressing occupations…...
Japan's university graduate employment rate remains at 98%
1+ week, 3+ day ago (390+ words) A total of 98. 0 percent of new university graduates who sought jobs were employed as of April 1, the same rate as the previous year and the second highest level on record, the labor ministry said. The figure reflects the continued demand…...
Kyoto school operator violated political neutrality in fatal Okinawa trip
1+ week, 4+ day ago (632+ words) The operator of a private high school in Kyoto Prefecture violated the law obliging schools to maintain political neutrality during a "peace education" trip that culminated in a fatal boat accident, the education ministry said Friday. It is the first…...