Is the threshold for moving to the countryside too high? Let's start with the remote part-time job! | the rise of media sites for part-time jobs in rural Japan

In January last year (2018), the Ministry of Health and Labor of Japan revised the outline on "promoting sideline", prompting large enterprises that had been banned from sideline to begin to lift the ban, including Nissan Motor, Shinsei Bank and so on. In the same year, according to a survey conducted by the Institute of Inaugural Research in Japan, 33.5% of the working population with regular employment status, or more than 1/3, were willing to pursue a sideline career. Against this background, 2018 is known as Japan's "first year of part-time employment".

Under this wave of lifting the ban, many part-time media websites are springing up like bamboo shoots after a spring rain, and several of them are different from ordinary job-hunting websites, which focus on contributing their own efforts to the place, so that while working in the city, they can also take a part-time job at the far end through their own expertise and become the local "relationship population" [Note 1].

The role of local advisor (photo source: https://note.mu/ryu_7_7/n/na90ece1d5d4a)

Remarks

[note 1] related population: refers to the "third type of population" who is "above sightseeing but not yet occupied" at the local level. These people are not only tourists who visit the place at once, but also "the mystery of a place" who are interested, enthusiastic, and even looking forward to a certain place. some may consider the possibility of emigration, and some may not be able to do so because of the current living conditions.

[note 2] hometown tax: promoted by Japan's Ministry of General Affairs and implemented in 2008, the content is to enable urban working people to donate to local governments, enjoy tax credits and receive local gifts, so as to revitalize the local economy. The idea is that the population of local cities is shrinking and taxation is becoming more and more difficult, and through this system to attract people living in big cities after employment, they will "return part of the taxes paid to their hometown".