Word: kawahara
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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...