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JAPAN
Feb 5, 2014
Panel OKs higher fees for visits to doctor
An advisory panel to the health minister on Wednesday approved increases for medical consultation fees that doctors charge patients for initial and follow-up visits.
BUSINESS
Feb 5, 2014
Monthly wage stayed at record low level in 2013
The average monthly wage, including bonuses, came to ¥314,150 in 2013, a record low for the second straight year, the labor ministry said in a preliminary report Wednesday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Jan 20, 2014
Use it or lose it: Workers want companies to pay for paid vacations
Getting workers in Japan to take paid holidays is difficult, but that doesn't mean they don't want them.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Jan 2, 2014
Part-timers skewing employment statistics
More restaurants and retailers are hiring short-hour employees to save money.
EDITORIALS
Dec 28, 2013
Year of ups and downs for Japan
Japan in 2013 was besieged by problems in politics, business and society even while several key events helped to rekindle a sense of confidence in Japan.
JAPAN
Dec 18, 2013
Docs top 300,000; 1 in 5 are female
Japan had 303,268 doctors as of the end of 2012, topping the 300,000 threshold for the first time since officials began compiling comparable data in 1954, with women accounting for almost 20 percent, the health ministry said.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Dec 18, 2013
Novartis false ad complaint planned
The health ministry is planning to file a criminal complaint against Novartis Pharma K.K. over alleged use of false advertising for its Diovan blood pressure-lowering drug, officials said Wednesday.
JAPAN
Dec 17, 2013
4,200 firms hit over labor violations
An audit finds that 4,189 businesses have violated labor laws, including forcing extended work hours on employees and failing to pay overtime wages.
EDITORIALS
Nov 30, 2013
Upgrading rules on harassment
The labor ministry is planning to tighten and enforce the country's guidelines for harassment in the workplace. Included is a reconsideration of office conversations between people of the same gender.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 26, 2013
Employment rate among women rises to record 63%
A record high 63 percent of women aged between 15 and 64 held jobs in September, up 2 percentage points from a year earlier, according to a labor force survey by the Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry.
JAPAN
Nov 2, 2013
Nearly all Japan's genetic testing facilities mismanage patient info
Almost all of Japan's medical facilities mismanage the genetic information of patients they check for genetic and chromosomal abnormalities as part of in vitro programs, a health ministry research group survey showed Saturday.
BUSINESS
Aug 30, 2013
1.5 million of nation's temporary workers serving as family breadwinners
There were around 12.53 million nonregular workers in Japan in 2010, of whom 1.49 million served as breadwinners of households with less than ¥3 million in annual income, the labor ministry said Friday in a white paper.
JAPAN
Aug 9, 2013
Assailed GID pension numbers to be scrapped
In a move that follows expressions of concern over privacy, the welfare ministry will abolish a system under which a unique sequence of numerals is used for pension numbers given to those who have legally changed their sex, according to sources at an advocacy group and the ministry.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health
Jun 27, 2013
Japanese government panel OKs world's first clinical research using iPS cells
A health ministry panel approves the world's first clinical research using human induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, which can grow into any type of human body tissue.
JAPAN
Jun 15, 2013
Japan's second female vice minister selected
A welfare ministry bureaucrat who was at the center of a scandal that saw senior Osaka prosecutors take the fall for evidence-tampering against her has been named as the nation's second-ever female vice minister.
EDITORIALS
May 16, 2013
Protecting a public pension program
To protect the kosei nenkin pension program, the welfare ministry should withdraw a plan to allow troubled investment funds for the program to keep operating.
JAPAN
May 9, 2013
Rubella cases in Japan already exceed 5,000 this year
The number of rubella cases reported so far this year has surpassed 5,000, more than twice the number for all of 2012, the National Institute of Infectious Diseases reports.
Japan Times
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Apr 9, 2013
Japan's foreign trainee system said still plagued by rights abuses
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.
JAPAN
Jul 7, 2010
Probe urged over 27 foreign trainee deaths in Japan in fiscal 2009
Twenty-seven foreign nationals died in fiscal 2009 after coming to Japan for employment under a government-authorized training program, the second-highest figure on record.
JAPAN
Jun 24, 2009
Overwork blamed for record-high 34 foreign trainee deaths in Japan in fiscal 2008
Thirty-four people involved in training programs for non-Japanese died in fiscal 2008, up 13 from the previous year and marking a record high, according to a survey by a government-linked training body.
Tokuryū, a new crime menace in Japan, emerges from the shadows
The National Police Agency coined the term "tokuryū" to classify individuals involved in dark part time jobs and quasi-gangsters, using the words "tokumei" (anonymous) and "ryūdo" (fluid) to reflect their characteristics.
Thanks, tourists. Views of Mount Fuji are now blocked.
Tourists pose in front of a convenience store with Mount Fuji on Friday in the town of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture. Local residents are upset over littering, overcrowding and the inconvenience caused by the visitors.
Is Modi’s party heading for a stunning election loss?
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's campaign tactics have escalated, including anti-Muslim rhetoric and fearmongering, reflecting his ruling party's desperation.
Two more arrested over brutal murder of couple in Tochigi
A vehicle carrying Seiha Sekine, the 32-year-old common-law husband of the deceased Tokyo couple's first daughter, leaves a police station in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward on Tuesday.
After blockbuster boxing victory, what next for ‘Monster’ Inoue?
Naoya Inoue celebrates his victory over Luis Nery in their IBF-WBA-WBC-WBO super bantamweight title boxing match at Tokyo Dome on Monday.
Stormy seas ahead as Beijing and Manila trade barbs over secret deal
Philippine Marines wave to Philippine Navy personnel and the media during a resupply mission at their military outpost, the BRP Sierra Madre, a warship run aground in the disputed Second Thomas Shoal in 1999, in the South China Sea, in March 2014.
Unlike 10 years ago, Japan's new security bill sparks little debate
The Lower House starts discussing a security clearance bill on April 19 in Tokyo.
After blockbuster boxing victory, what next for ‘Monster’ Inoue?
Naoya Inoue celebrates his victory over Luis Nery in their IBF-WBA-WBC-WBO super bantamweight title boxing match at Tokyo Dome on Monday.
Xi bristles as Macron and von der Leyen urge China to do more on Ukraine
French President Emmanuel Macron, Chinese leader Xi Jinping and European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen walk after their meeting in Paris on Monday.
How a Japanese scientist is turning the climate crisis into music
A screencap of a performance of Hiroto Nagai's “String Quartet No. 1 ‘Polar Energy Budget’” by the PRT Quartet

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