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...Efficient, capable and well paid, Haruko (played by the 33-year-old actress Ryoko Shinohara) is a contract worker who has been dispatched to a struggling Tokyo food-manufacturing company. Efficient and deadly capable, she is totally lacking in interpersonal skills - which in Japan, even more than in other countries, are at least as important as actually being able to do the job. The comedy in Haken - which at times resembles a Japanese version of The Office, minus the meanness - comes from Haruko's clashes with her often incompetent full-time colleagues (one of whom is ironically played by Koutaro...
...wage temp ghetto-34% of male and 55% of female part-timers make less than $11,000 a year. All of this feeds the success of Haken, which satirizes the changing nature of the Japanese workplace. The confident and capable Haruko, played by the 33-year-old actress Ryoko Shinohara, makes more than the average part-timer but still has to put condescending co-workers in their place-onscreen justice for Japan's downtrodden real-life temps. "It feels good to see Haruko tell full-timers things that you cannot say face to face," says fan Kaoru Ishizaki, a former...
...more thrilling to watch the process in its chrysalis phase. In this respect, the masterclass between five Sydney Symphony woodwind players and 100 budding band members at an Osaka high school was the high point of the tour. The stage was a plastic-covered gymnasium floor, with headmaster Yoshio Shinohara's office standing in as green room. "I feel Australia is very close to my heart," says Shinohara, pointing out a Melbourne tea towel, kangaroo ashtray and koala-adorned sheepskin cushion?legacies of previous student exchanges...
...have always condemned the use of the atomic bomb against Japan but I could not do anything at all to prevent that fateful decision." ALBERT EINSTEIN, in a recently discovered 1953 letter to Japanese philosopher Seiei Shinohara, responding to Shinohara's criticism of the renowned physicist's role in the development of nuclear weapons...
...were becoming entangled. Shinsho Temple's plump, leathery Abbot Araki had to journey 40 miles to Tokyo to find out where his temple and its 350 employees stood under the new Labor Standards Act. So far his only word of encouragement has come from Temple Warehouse Keeper Shigeru Shinohara, head of the union of which 252 temple workers (including all 22 priests) are members. "We want regular wages," Shigeru said, "but no regular eight-hour working days. Sometimes a whole delegation of believers shows up late at night, and we are quite agreeable to working odd hours. Our union...
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