Where We Call Home — Season 1, Episode 8: Working Under the Outbreak
Documentary • 27 min • 6 seasons, 137 episodes • ★ 8.0/10
Episode synopsis
Like in the rest of the world, the coronavirus is disrupting life in Japan. As businesses shift to telecommuting or temporarily closed, foreigners working in Japan are also affected. Join us as we contact some of the people we previously met on Workpedia Japan! Seen through the eyes of an aspiring sake brewer from the US, a colorful French store clerk, a Tokyo-based Austrian taxi driver and the Nepalese manager of an izakaya, we get an inside look at how the pandemic impacts workplaces in Japan.
About Where We Call Home
People from around the globe who put down roots in Japan offer a glimpse into their lives and the hardships they face in Japanese society.
More episodes from Season 1
- E1The Daily Struggles of a Pakistani Used Car Dealer
- E2Little India in Big Tokyo
- E3A Helping Hand for Foreign Women in Kyoto
- E4A Hot Meal for Every Child
- E5Support for Foreign Disabled and Elderly
- E6A Budding Farmer Dreams of Peanuts
- E7Under the Coronavirus Outbreak
- E9Chinese Entrepreneurs Fight for Survival
- E10Struggles for Recovery in the Restaurant Industry
- E11Entertainers Under the Pandemic
- E12Tourism's Fight to Endure the Crisis
- E13Charmed by the Beauty and Flavor of Noto