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...large immigrant workforce. "The Japanese legal system doesn't assume that foreigners will settle down to live and work with the Japanese," says Hirano of Kyushu University. "That's been an obstacle to bringing foreign workers into the medical and care-service fields." Shiro Kawahara, president of the 60,000-strong Nihon Careservice Craft Union, says his industry isn't ready to manage foreign manpower, especially when problems like low pay and overly demanding labor need to be solved first. "We've been working to improve the work conditions," says Kawahara. "This can drag us down. Japanese could lose jobs...
...Just because the quake was double the quake-resistant standard, it doesn't automatically mean a threat," says Shuji Kawahara, an earthquake safety inspection official in the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry's nuclear safety department. "The structures are built to withstand much much more," he said. How much more? "We don't know," says Kawahara...
...Viewers will pick their own favorite bits, and long soft spots. I liked the star skaters' ferociously competitive idiocy. Demonstrating his skin-scalding machismo, Chazz skates on bare feet, then Jimmy does the human luge on his bare chest. The on-ice routines (overseen by Sarah Kawahara, who choreographed some of Michelle Kwan's medal-winning performances) are both plausible and funny. Craig T. Nelson, as the boys' coach, is neither - why is he in a comedy? In this movie, the inspired bits and the misfired ones are so close to each other, you wonder if anybody involved with...
...time being, Japan's plain people were still not mainly concerned with the road to democracy; they worried-like people in the best regulated societies-about the road that would lead them to the 'biggest bowl of rice. In a Tokyo saloon last week Mikizo Kawahara, an unemployed counterman, said: "It's useless to talk to me about democracy and new ideals-get me a job first!" A bearded grocer near by put down his cup of watered sake and nodded: "Life here," he said, "is like trying to do business in a prison without bars...
Next morning 3,000 Chinese soldiers with rifles and machine guns deployed as though to defend Chengteh. Through this Chinese force, which fired not a shot, dashed 128 Japanese, the extreme advance guard of Major General Tadashi Kawahara's 16th Infantry Brigade which, at 10 a.m., won the relay race and Japanese immortality...