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A monstrous tornado at least 800 meters wide roared through the suburbs of Oklahoma City on Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods and destroying an elementary school with a direct blow as children and teachers huddled against winds of up to 320 kph. At least 91 ...
If you work in an office, you probably spend a fair part of your time sitting at a desk, which, of course, isn’t very healthy. To combat that the Pomodoro technique recommends that you work in intervals with regular breaks — for example, 25 ...
“I was stopped by two men in a government-registered vehicle, blindfolded and dragged off the street. They took me away to a house in a place I did not know. I was forced into a room with blood all over the walls and floor, ...
"Outsider art" is relatively new in Japan and, as a genre, works made by self-taught Japanese artists are still not very well known on the category-delineating, label-loving international art scene.
After all these years, Rafael Nadal still knows how to dominate Roger Federer. In the 30th meeting between the two tennis greats, Nadal controlled the final from start to finish to win 6-1, 6-3 Sunday for his seventh Italian Open title. “Rafa was just ...
Last month, a Chinese trainee went on a stabbing rampage at a Hiroshima Prefecture seafood company where he worked, killing the president and an employee and wounding six others. The man had been a trainee at the oyster-processing plant as part of a government-authorized ...
A prefectural labor panel rules that the mandatory questionnaire that the Osaka Municipal Government issued to its employees about their union activities constituted an unfair and illegal labor practice.
The labor ministry will submit a bill that will require companies and public offices to employ mentally disabled people starting in April 2018, ministry officials said Thursday. The plan was approved at a meeting of the ministry’s Labor Policy Council subcommittee on employment of ...
The nation’s once-thriving manufacturing sector saw its total workforce fall below 10 million for the first time in 51 years in December — down sharply from an October 1992 peak, when it employed just over 16 million, government data has shown. With 9.98 million ...
Japanese Trade Union Confederation (Rengo) President Nobuaki Koga said it is necessary for companies to raise employee wages to help the country out of deflation. “Wage deflation is a major factor that leaves the country in prolonged deflation,” Koga said Tuesday. Rengo hopes to ...