Word: shigeo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have survived only because of price supports. A government advisory panel last month recommended that domestic coal production should be slashed 38%, to 10 million tons a year, by 1991. As a result, about 11,000 of the country's 24,000 miners would lose their jobs. Says Shigeo Shigetaka, a union official at the Mitsui Sunagawa coal mine: "The proposed cut is the same as a death sentence." To protest the plan, workers at Japan's eleven major mines mounted a 24-hour strike on Nov. 13. Some 7,000 supporters marched with union flags and placards in subfreezing...
...lookout for her pet (it was found), lent the penniless youth 560 yen ($2.33) from a special emergency fund in exchange for a signed IOU (four out of five such loans are repaid) and radioed for a patrol car to break up the marital battle. Said Sergeant Shigeo Takahashi, grinning with satisfaction: "You stand here for a quarter of an hour, and you can do as deep a study of life as is possible...
...government White Paper last year reported that although most women are still content with their responsibilities as keepers of the home, only 13% feel they are given equal status at work, and only 10% believe they are treated equally in terms of social perceptions and customs. Shigeo Saito, author of a national sex survey, found that "Japanese housewives are frustrated in many ways. Women at the moment are giving signs of warning, and the men aren't really paying attention to them...