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Haruko Ohmae has the sort of job skills that should get her hired immediately. She can program a computer, chop sushi, speak Russian, operate heavy equipment and (most important) pour tea. But Haruko doesn't have a full-time job. She's a part-timer-and the main character in the new hit Japanese TV show Haken no Hinkaku, which roughly translates as "the dignity of temp workers." Japan may once have enshrined lifetime corporate employment, but today nearly a third of its workforce is made up of part-timers like Haruko, as companies that cut payrolls during the recession...
...While the shift has helped Japanese corporations post record profits, others worry about a generation of workers mired in a low-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...
...simple plays.” The Crimson’s best special-teams opportunity came halfway through the second period, when Kevin Du corralled a rebound near the left post with BC goalie Cory Schneider out of position and the left side of the net wide open. A one-timer would most likely have found the back of the net, but Du required two touches to control the wobbling puck, giving Schneider time to fill the hole. NET LOSS Harvard’s previous contest against the Eagles, a 4-0 victory, was best known for the emergence of freshman...
...rookie defenseman Alex Biega at the Big Green blue line, Dartmouth forwards Connor Shields and Kevin Swallow raced down the ice on a 2-on-1. When Rogers, the lone man back, pinched on the puck instead of staying with the skater, Shields passed to Swallow for a one-timer that beat Tobe for a shorthanded goal at 11:10.“[Rogers is] a forward, and it’s a tough read for him,” Donato said, adding, “Hindsight being 20-20, we’d have liked to play...
...dentist once told me that the real benefit of the new Sonicare toothbrush craze is not the action so much as the time: Sonicares make you brush for two full minutes. If the two-minute timer is the real key to healthy teeth, ToothTunes may just be the key to getting kids to care...