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2017年4月10日
Foreign interns and students in Japan hailing from neighboring countries find it exacting to adapt and keep their lifestyle. Most of them leave their home countries in hopes of greener pastures. Countries like Vietnam offer training to their citizens who will be deployed to Japan as technical interns. Foreigners are filling the gap in Japan’s labor shortage. Despite the auspiciousness of the project, some trainees suddenly disappear upon deployment. Problems with pay and inferior working conditions are deemed to be the cause of disappearances. Some trainees start believing that their spurious dreams of greener pastures surface so they decided to return to their home countries. Trainees from China and…
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2017年4月6日
Tokyo police began taking steps to fight against cyber attack by automatically detecting probable threats or virus, and sharing them online via a secured server. About 100 companies whose offices – such as railways operators, airlines, financial institutions, telecommunication services – situate around Tokyo participated in the said project. These companies all have key infrastructure and advanced technology. Companies can gain access to the information even if they are not under attack. While the sharing strategy has strong proponents, others believe that sharing threat intelligence does nothing to protect against the next attack.This plan of action hopes that information sharing will eventually lead to predictive analytics that will help combat…
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2017年4月4日
As more and more companies adjust to cater to the needs of their female workers, they see working women as key to lessening overtime work. Hiring women to reduce overtime work is gaining support from female workers as they find this move fruitful. In a Tokyo-based cosmetics company where the employee pool is dominated by women, workers start to prepare for home at 5PM. This is despite the fact that their work hours officially end at 5:30PM. One of the said company’s employees said that this is very advantageous for her as gets to spend more time with her 3-year-old son and more time for herself. Japan exceeds Europe and…
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2017年3月14日
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has made increasing the participation of women in the workforce a crucial component in his comprehensive economic growth plan. Backed by several researches, womenomics could increase the gross domestic product of Japan and help address the country’s declining labor force. Despite the policy change, a lot of critics think that womenomics’ benefits cannot be realized without concrete transformation in work culture and attitude towards working mothers in companies. Acknowledging the potential benefits of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s womenomics, several companies have started giving more support to working mothers. For example, one company has asked its working fathers who take parental leaves to share stories on how…
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2017年2月7日
A new kind of service is being offered to customers of various ryokan inns located in Niigata Prefecture. Customers can now enjoy taking a bath in an onsen hot spring together with sake in it. The so called furosshu is being offered on the 26th of every month in 10 onsen districts in the said prefecture. Hotel Senkei Corporations’s Vice President, Takeshi Iida, is the person behind this idea. Takeshi Iida says he hopes guests can enjoy the uniqueness of Niigata through the sake-infused onsen. The said service is indeed a big success, gaining more praises and compliments from satisfied customers. The management is also considering to expand their…
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2017年1月27日
Most people in their twenties and right after college have preferred to live in a hustle and bustle of a big city – eager to accomplish and achieve something. Facing a large amount of work load, working in a stable and secured company, and making friends with everybody everyday can be a lot of fun. But in Japan, this kind of notion is changing. Younger Japanese generation now opt to live in rural areas. A 29-year-old mother, Kanako Sato, is one of the many who have chosen to live in a slow-paced and secluded area. It all started back when she was doing her volunteer work – cultivating the land,…
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2017年1月16日
A transit company headquartered in Takatsuki, Osaka Prefecture provided its drivers emotional support through the Kodomo Museum Project. The said scheme was carried it out by designing trucks with drawings made by the drivers’ children. This project was brought about to curtail road accidents. 15 other companies in the Kansai, Kanto, and Chubu regions had participated in the project succeeding its launching two years earlier. Hirofumi Miyata, president of Miyata Traffic and head of the Kodomo Museum Project, thought opting for state-of-the-art driving equipment may not be enough to prevent the occurrence of vehicular collision. While finding a better strategy, he chanced upon a picture drawn by a driver’s…
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2016年12月22日
A good portion of Japanese broadcasting companies is setting high expectations on advanced television broadcasting formats. The Association for Promotion of Advanced Broadcasting Services(A-PAB) conducts tests on 4k and 8k, which are higher resolution broadcasting formats, through satellite channels. Home electronic companies sign up to change their current airing formats to 4k and 8k. The 4k format is expected to deliver four times the number of pixels of the current high-definition format and 8k should be around sixteen times better. Although the technology is looked forward to, large sums should be invested to make the technology widely available. Vocabulary: format – the form, design or arrangement of the…
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2016年12月16日
Online shopping giants are going extreme to outdone each other as demands for goods online intensifies. Amazon Japan upped its game by expanding target areas on its 1-hour delivery service called Prime Now. Ratuken, Inc., on the same level, does not back down on the challenge by introducing more points, which you gain after every purchase and can be used to avail their merchandises. The Yahoo! Shopping site also employed the same strategy. The companies are all stepping up their strategies to gain more customers. The Economy, Trade and Industry Ministry said in a statement that the e-commerce market is worth a whooping ¥13.8 trillion just in 2015. The…
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2016年12月16日
A change of plan has crossed out Miyagi Prefecture as a venue for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. The International Olympic Committee, the national government, the Tokyo metropolitan government, and the organizing committee have removed Miyagi Naganuma boat race course in Tome, Miyagi Prefecture from the list for the Tokyo games in favor of the initial venue, Sea Forest Waterway on Tokyo Bay. Holding the games at Naganuma had seemed practical as the cost could be kept around 15 billion yen to 20 billion yen in comparison to the initial 32.8 billion yen on the Sea Forest Waterway plan. However, pursuing this Naganuma plan would divide the Olympic village and…
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