Every rule in Japan has an exception waiting behind it.

Written by Wakana Chiba, Tokutei Sharoushi — a licensed Labor and Social Security Attorney in Japan.

Japanese labor law is a base rule qualified by exceptions — layers of them, many with no equivalent in your home jurisdiction. These notes give you the base rules in English, one structure at a time, so a decision made at headquarters still holds here. Keeping the dispute from ever starting is what a Japanese labor attorney is for.

原則があり、例外がある。日本の労働法は極めて複雑で、日本独自の制度も少なくありません。まずは基本ルールを英語で整理してお届けします。紛争を未然に防ぐことが、社会保険労務士の役割です。