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Japan’s birth rate problem is way worse than anyone imagined
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WASHINGTON POST
Japan’s population shrank by its largest amount on record in 2014. Roughly 1.001 million people were born and 1.269 million people died last year, leaving the country with 268,000 fewer people overall.
Japan’s declining population has a powerful impact on its economic situatio...
Japan’s population shrank by its largest amount on record in 2014. Roughly 1.001 million people were born and 1.269 million people died last year, leaving the country with 268,000 fewer people overall.
Japan’s declining population has a powerful impact on its economic situatio...
- January 8, 2015
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Impact of Japan's shrinking population 'already palpable'
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DW.DE
Japan's population continues to shrink, and perhaps at a faster rate than expected. Last year, the estimated number of newborn babies slumped to 1,001,000, an all-time low for the fourth straight year, according to recently released data by the country's Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry...
Japan's population continues to shrink, and perhaps at a faster rate than expected. Last year, the estimated number of newborn babies slumped to 1,001,000, an all-time low for the fourth straight year, according to recently released data by the country's Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry...
- January 8, 2015
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System planned to improve young workers’ job situation
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THE JAPAN NEWS
The government plans to establish a system to certify companies actively engaged in hiring young people as regular employees or continually hiring them in a bill to be submitted to the ordinary Diet session, to be convened on Jan. 26, according to sources.
The system is aimed a...
The government plans to establish a system to certify companies actively engaged in hiring young people as regular employees or continually hiring them in a bill to be submitted to the ordinary Diet session, to be convened on Jan. 26, according to sources.
The system is aimed a...
- January 8, 2015
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Japan finally has full squad together at practice
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THE JAPAN NEWS
Five days before kicking off defense of the Asian Cup, Japan finally has its full squad together at practice.
Kashima Antlers midfielder Gaku Shibasaki and Sagan Tosu forward Yohei Toyoda rejoined their teammates in training at the Samurai Blue’s base camp here Wednesday after ...
Five days before kicking off defense of the Asian Cup, Japan finally has its full squad together at practice.
Kashima Antlers midfielder Gaku Shibasaki and Sagan Tosu forward Yohei Toyoda rejoined their teammates in training at the Samurai Blue’s base camp here Wednesday after ...
- January 8, 2015
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Outlook 2015 / Let’s think about the past, present and future
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THE JAPAN NEWS
By Takashi Yamakoshi / Yomiuri Shimbun City News Editor
“I was not able to tell anybody what I had witnessed for nearly 70 years, because I had a kind of guilty feeling over the fact that all my family members survived,” says Sumiko Akazawa, 84. She and four other family members ...
By Takashi Yamakoshi / Yomiuri Shimbun City News Editor
“I was not able to tell anybody what I had witnessed for nearly 70 years, because I had a kind of guilty feeling over the fact that all my family members survived,” says Sumiko Akazawa, 84. She and four other family members ...
- January 8, 2015
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Parts of Asia suffer slow Internet as undersea cable cut
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JAPAN TODAY
Parts of Southeast Asia are suffering slow Internet connections after an undersea cable linking the region to the U.S. was cut earlier this week.
Viettel Mobile, Vietnam’s largest mobile service operator, said Wednesday that repairing the broken cable, located in the Vietnamese se...
Parts of Southeast Asia are suffering slow Internet connections after an undersea cable linking the region to the U.S. was cut earlier this week.
Viettel Mobile, Vietnam’s largest mobile service operator, said Wednesday that repairing the broken cable, located in the Vietnamese se...
- January 8, 2015
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Japan’s hydrogen fuel cell stations begin to open, but are they worth the switch?
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ROCKET NEWS
With Toyota’s first hydrogen fuel cell vehicle (FCV), Mirai, now available, many wait to see if this revolutionary car with take off or fall flat in Japan. On 25 December, JX Nippon Oil & Energy began selling hydrogen for these new vehicles at a cost of 1,000 yen per kilogram (US$8/...
With Toyota’s first hydrogen fuel cell vehicle (FCV), Mirai, now available, many wait to see if this revolutionary car with take off or fall flat in Japan. On 25 December, JX Nippon Oil & Energy began selling hydrogen for these new vehicles at a cost of 1,000 yen per kilogram (US$8/...
- January 8, 2015
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Survey reveals 55 percent of women in Japan wouldn’t marry a divorced man
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ROCKET NEWS
With people generally getting married at a later age than in our parents’ generation, it sometimes feels like we have to throw out the whole rule book on marriage and starting a family in order to write a brand new one. But what do you do when your potential partner already has a bu...
With people generally getting married at a later age than in our parents’ generation, it sometimes feels like we have to throw out the whole rule book on marriage and starting a family in order to write a brand new one. But what do you do when your potential partner already has a bu...
- January 8, 2015
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Hyogo Prefecture starts operation of solar plant
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JAPAN TODAY
The government of Hyogo Prefecture has started operating a 5MW solar power plant in the Harima Science Garden City.
The installation area is 6 hectares. The plant is expected to generate about 5,000,000kWh of electricity, which is equivalent to the amount consumed by 1,400 househo...
The government of Hyogo Prefecture has started operating a 5MW solar power plant in the Harima Science Garden City.
The installation area is 6 hectares. The plant is expected to generate about 5,000,000kWh of electricity, which is equivalent to the amount consumed by 1,400 househo...
- January 8, 2015
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Japanese Government to assist Vietnam with urban development
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THE JAPAN NEWS
Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Minister Akihiro Ota and Vietnamese Construction Minister Trinh Dinh Dung signed memorandums of understanding on Saturday to promote bilateral cooperation in eight areas, including urban development in Vietnam.
The eight areas also in...
Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Minister Akihiro Ota and Vietnamese Construction Minister Trinh Dinh Dung signed memorandums of understanding on Saturday to promote bilateral cooperation in eight areas, including urban development in Vietnam.
The eight areas also in...
- January 8, 2015
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