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If you think Japan's hard-drinking business culture is as dead as the Sony Betamax, think again. After more than a decade of austerity (not to mention sobriety) during Japan's lengthy economic slump, many Japanese companies are thriving today - and they're reviving some of the business customs...
It's that sense of team spirit and togetherness - called soshikiryoku - that many Japanese corporations are trying to rekindle. A generation ago, college grads entered companies en masse, lived together, drank together, quite often married each other, and retired together. This close-knit corporate culture, which was virtually national labor...
Despite such experiments, Japanese companies may find it hard to restore the glory days of Japan Inc. That's because today, one in three Japanese works part-time; younger employees in particular tend to value mobility over the security of lifetime employment. Indeed, during Noboru Koyama's Saturday-night drinking...
Heavy rainfall during south asia's summer monsoons typically swamps large swaths of the subcontinent, but this season's storms have been unusually fierce. Four monsoon depressions, double the usual number, have caused the worst flooding in memory in parts of Pakistan, India, Nepal and Bangladesh. Nearly 800 have died...
The U.N. estimates that 1.1 billion people around the world lack safe drinking water, a number that could reach 5 billion by 2025. Very few of them live in the U.S., however. Turn on a tap almost anywhere in America, and you'll get clean, safe water--a minor miracle...