The first-ever law protecting freelancers and independent contractors in Japan came into effect on November 1, requiring businesses that do work in the country to review their workplace practices and ...

TOKYO (AP) — Worries are growing about the whereabouts of a freelance Japanese journalist, last heard from one month ago in war-torn Syria, where reporting assignments have become among the most ...

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 the first recommendation issued under the new freelance law, the Fair Trade Commission on June 17 cited major Tokyo-based publishers Shogakukan Inc. and Kobunsha Co. for their mistreatment of ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japanese government officials declined to comment Thursday on a reported ransom demand for a Japanese freelance journalist who has been missing since summer in Syria. The France-based ...