Sourcing by market · Asia-Pacific
Boolean Search Strings for Hiring in Japan
Japan's boards operate in Japanese and hiring follows a cycle tied to the academic calendar, which shifts when the same role is actually in market.
Supply Chain Manager — 7+ years planning + logistics.
Supply chain planning, logistics, cost optimization.
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("Supply Chain Manager" OR "Supply Chain Planning Manager" OR "Logistics Manager" OR "Planning Manager") AND ("Supply Chain Planning" OR Logistics OR "Cost Optimization" OR "Capacity Planning") AND "Tokyo"
site:linkedin.com/in/ ("Supply Chain Manager" OR "Supply Chain Planning Manager" OR "Logistics Manager" OR "Planning Manager") AND ("Supply Chain Planning" OR Logistics OR "Cost Optimization" OR "Capacity Planning") AND "Tokyo"
Location is set to Tokyo, so these are this market's strings — paste them as-is or swap the location term. The workspace rewrites them for all six dialects from your live JD.
Platforms recruiters use in Japan
The strings above are the three dialects that can be generated deterministically. Which box each one goes into is decided per platform, and the boards below are the ones this market actually runs on.
- RikunabiJapanese-language; graduate and mid-career.
- dodaJapanese-language; mid-career focus.
- Indeed JapanHigh-volume aggregator.
- LinkedInMultinational and bilingual roles.
ATS Boolean
Workday · SmartRecruiters · Taleo · Greenhouse · most board searches
LinkedIn X-Ray
Google, targeting site:linkedin.com/in/
What changes when you hire in Japan
- Rikunabi and doda are Japanese-language platforms; a Japanese-language search is required to use them properly.
- Annual hiring cycles mean a role that is quiet this quarter may reopen the next — re-run the search rather than widening it.
Hiring in Japan FAQs
Which job boards do recruiters use in Japan?
Rikunabi (Japanese-language; graduate and mid-career.); doda (Japanese-language; mid-career focus.); Indeed Japan (High-volume aggregator.); LinkedIn (Multinational and bilingual roles.). Paste the ATS string into the keyword box of any board that runs on standard Boolean; platform-specific dialects — Indeed's title filter, Bing X-Ray and public-CV X-Ray — are generated from your live JD in the workspace.
How do I write a Boolean search string for a Supply Chain Manager in Tokyo?
Start from the ATS string above: alternate titles in one parenthesized OR group, core skills in a second, credentials in a third, and the location group last. It happens to be Tokyo here, so the same position works for any other city — swap the location term rather than rewriting the string. Keep operators uppercase, quote every multi-word phrase, and never nest more than two levels deep.
Do I need to search in Japanese?
Hiring in Japan mostly runs in Japanese, so an English-only title list returns a fraction of the market. Use the strings above for the English-language and multinational roles they are built for, and run a separate search on Japanese job titles — the boards listed above are where those titles live. Do not translate and OR both languages into one group: that widens the result set instead of narrowing it.
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