Month: February 2024

[ad_1] More than 80% of major firms saw male employees take child care leave of less than three months over the past year while female employees got longer leave times, a recent Kyodo News survey showed, underscoring the dominant role women continue to play in child-rearing in Japan.In the survey that covered 113 companies between November and December, around half of them reported in their securities filings that at least […]

[ad_1] Lusail, Qatar – Qatar successfully defended its Asian Cup crown after beating Jordan 3-1 on Saturday at Lusail Stadium, where Akram Afif converted three penalties as the host nation won its second continental title.Jordan was playing in its first Asian Cup final and seeking its first major trophy, but it was Qatar that prevailed in front of 86,492 fans, including Qatar's ruler, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, and FIFA […]

[ad_1] Fujitsu has held more than £3.4 billion ($4.3 billion) of active contracts with parts of the British state including the Bank of England since 2019, despite its role in the U.K.’s Post Office scandal.A parliamentary committee said £1.4 billion of those contracts were awarded after a 2019 court ruling which associated Fujitsu with the wrongful prosecution of hundreds of local branch managers for theft and fraud. The Japanese technology […]

[ad_1] Everyone knows you’re not supposed to bet on a bubble, but what about a potential bubble?As the S&P 500 Index climbed above 5,000 on Friday, many of us found ourselves wondering what exactly we should call this market: a bubble or a durable new bull? Are we reliving 1995 — when, coincidentally, a previous "soft landing” economy pushed the Dow Jones Industrial Average above 5,000 en route to a […]

[ad_1] Many listed Japanese firms have reported robust earnings for the nine months to December, with their bottom lines improving thanks to price increases.Of 786 component firms of the broad Topix index that had announced their April-December results as of Wednesday, 455 companies, or nearly 60% of the total, reported higher net profits year-on-year, according to SMBC Nikko Securities.The number of companies that raised their net profit forecasts for the […]

[ad_1] URASOE, Okinawa Pref. – Third baseman Munetaka Murakami is eager to put his anti-climactic 2023 season behind him and put the Tokyo Yakult Swallows back on track with another Triple Crown this year.Two years ago, Murakami led the Central League with 56 home runs, 134 RBIs and a .318 batting average to power the Swallows to a second straight pennant. Afterward, he received a three-year contract and spoke of […]

[ad_1] One Tokyo ward has begun testing an unprecedented project to combat rats using garbage bags infused with the smell of certain herbs. Chiyoda Ward has faced growing rat problems in recent years, receiving around 200 complaints from residents per year in fiscal 2019 to 2022, a surge from around 50 until fiscal 2018. The increase may be because "some restaurants do not manage food waste properly and due to […]

[ad_1] Japan is set to offer driver's tests for taxi and bus licenses in foreign languages amid a shortage of drivers in the country, with the police agency distributing sample questions in the coming weeks. The National Police Agency will issue sample exam questions in 20 languages to prefectural police forces nationwide by the end of March, allowing them to formulate their own questions based on local needs, an official […]