In my last blogpost “6 Signs You Are Experiencing Power Harassment in Japan”, I promised to explore the reasons why power harassment was more commonlyRead More
I had never heard the term “Power Harassment” before coming to Japan. I learned later that this word was actually invented in Japan andRead More
[Book Summary: Unfinished Business by Anne-Marie Slaughter] In my last blogpost about Anne-Marie Slaughter’s book Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family, I summarized Slaughter’s reframing of the work-lifeRead More
As promised in my previous article, here is the book summary of Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family by Anne-Marie Slaughter. The Context ofRead More
(A protester holds up a sign saying “Just because we are women”, photo from: Kyodo News article) Tokyo Medical School would rather have “average”Read More
Are they any advantages of being a foreigner working in Japan? Most foreigners I know who are working in Japan complain about their workplace. InRead More
Mileva Marić was Einstein’s first wife. When she met Einstein at the Polytechnic Institute in Zurich, Switzerland, she had already overcome many obstacles faced byRead More
Today, we are celebrating Salvador Dali’s and Richard Feynman’s birthday, two remarkable human beings that influenced our perception of the world. They were both bornRead More
About Hierarchy… People are as equal as the teeth of a comb… –The Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) This message was consistently taught to me while growing up.Read More
Working in Japan can be really challenging, especially at the very beginning. I had never been interested in Japanese culture before starting to work inRead More
