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...program plans to bring about 800 more Indonesian caregivers to Japan over the next two years - an unprecedented move in a country that has never allowed foreign labor in this large sector before. "The question is whether the labor shortage can be solved by Japanese hands alone," says Yuko Hirano, associate professor of health sociology at Kyushu University. "We need to partially rely on foreigners. This program is a big step for Japan...
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...Japan did not fight a war of aggression. It fought in self-defense.' YUKO TOJO, 68-year-old granddaughter of Japanese General and former Prime Minister Hideki Tojo. General Tojo ordered the World War II attack on Pearl Harbor and was later executed for war crimes; his granddaughter is campaigning for a seat in the Japanese parliament as a far-right candidate...
...early, forcing the Japanese Olympic Committee (JOC) to field dozens of calls each day from irate Japanese decrying the nation's disgraceful performance. "We tell the callers that we will reflect on the results and that we must refocus on our improvement plans for the [2010] Vancouver Olympics," explained Yuko Iwakami of the JOC's general-affairs department...
...They're not real runaways, the girls insist, because they intend to go home sooner or later?and they have cell phones. "Our parents can reach us anytime," Yuko argues. "They know where we are, sort of." Amazingly, the police use the same measure to define a runaway?if your parents can contact you, you're not really missing. Which explains why the official numbers of Tokyo runaways?though up 15% over the past five years?remain relatively low. Of the 1.4 million minors in the metropolis, about 2,000 were taken into custody as runaways last year...