Word: hosei
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...course, most fathers feel less at liberty than Yoshida to walk out of the office at a sane hour. "The number of men who want to balance work and home is increasing," says Emiko Takeishi, a human-resources expert at Tokyo's Hosei University, "but when you take a look at figures on long working hours, or the take-up of paid leave, they're worse than before." A recent survey by Japan's Cabinet Office found that while 70% of fathers wanted to balance home and career, 23% had little or no time to spend with their children...
...government possess. For example, although Koizumi orchestrated Japan's missions to the Indian Ocean and Iraq, each required a special act of parliament. And despite his popularity, Koizumi has faced stiff public opposition to every controversial military decision he has taken. Hiroshi Honma, a professor of international law at Hosei University, says the U.S. continues to underestimate Japan's ambivalence about its military. "The U.S. is struggling to maintain its role as the world's keeper of democracy and liberalization, and they're asking Japan to take a bit of the burden off them," says Honma. "But there...
...just 40 kilometers away, the Arase dam's deconstruction may only prove that the Japanese government can spend money even when it's removing something. But some observers insist this could be the first crack in the nation's overpriced fa?ade. Says Takayoshi Igarashi, a professor at Hosei University in Tokyo and an expert on Japan's public spending: 'This is a revolutionary change. There have been some cases to stop dam construction, but this is one step forward.' Perhaps the floodgates of reform really have opened...
...These verdicts are a striking departure for a country led by conservatives who would rather deny, revise or bury the past. Tokyo hard-liners still capture headlines by declaring, as former defense chief Hosei Norota did last year, that Japan invaded most of Asia only because it "had fallen prey to a scheme of the United States." Publishers of middle school textbooks, who in the past few years finally began calling the 1937 murder of up to 300,000 civilians in Nanjing a "massacre," recently succumbed to right-wing pressure and changed most editions back to calling the slaughter...
...David Mitchell. In the Koganecho back-alley brothels and sleazy bars, Kazuki and his pals pass the time doing cocaine and working on their fake tans. When Kazuki becomes a passive participant in the gang-rape of a young girl, his father insists he resume classes at the prestigious Hosei Academy. (The rape is a side issue. Dad has made a large donation to the school and wants to get his money's worth.) Kazuki reacts like any budding young psychopath might?by beating a dog to death with an expensive golf club...