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A Contract Law that Enslaves Japanese Working People

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Suda Mitsuteru  and
Andrew Gordon
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“If we do not hear from you within one week, we will take it that you have consented without objection.”

This is the single cover page sent from the company to a labor union formed by employees of an elder care service company in Tokyo last November, together with employment rules totaling about 50 pages. It was a request for opinions as the company was revising its work rules.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 5 , Issue 8 , August 2007 , e7
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