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Daily Japan Headlines: Wednesday, Jun 22, 2011

Written By: guyjin on June 22, 2011 No Comment

Photo Source: Reuters.

Reuters: Missing pets – a lingering legacy of Japan’s disasters

“If you go into the zone, animals were all over the place – farm animals, dogs, and cats. Animals were in distress on roads and they were in a very bad shape,” she said. “People were not able to get access to [...]

15.7% of Japanese Living in Poverty?

Written By: guyjin on October 21, 2009 No Comment

A Kyodo news report yesterday proclaimed that 1 in 7 Japanese people were living in poverty, according to a Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare release. This was the first time that the ministry has released such figures, which were calculated in accordance with the calculation methods used [...]

Tags: [Aged, Economic Growth, Hatoyama Administration, OECD, Poverty, Temporary Workers]

Japan’s Temporary Worker Problem

Written By: guyjin on October 1, 2009 One Comment

Although the government has made several attempts over the last decade or so to change conditions for temporary (or ‘dispatched’) workers, a Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry study has found that about 41% of non-regular workers are doing work on a par with that of regular employees, although only 16% [...]

Tags: [Dispatched Workers, Regular Employment, Remuneration, Temporary Workers]