Pursuit of parallel careers catching on among young Japanese

As Japan's lifetime employment culture crumbles, younger Japanese are becoming increasingly familiar with pursuing parallel careers.Nanako Shibata is a Tokyo staffing agency PR employee, but also a professional dancer who practices seven hours a day, four days a week to perform on stage.Shibata, 27, started working at the staffing agency, b-style Inc., as a full-time regular employee in 2013, but soon found the work too hard for her to continue concentrating on dancing. She considered quitting, but on the advice of the company's president, she instead switched her status in 2015 to part-tim…READ FULL ARTICLE