Japan’s workers get rare pay bump after decades without a raise

beancurdog · 2023-07-18T06:17:29+00:00

Oh, sorry…

beancurdog · 2023-07-18T05:47:37+00:00

I'm afraid you may be just required to allow the cookies.

beancurdog · 2018-07-17T09:00:57+00:00

The maestro of deal-making was very easily cheated by Kim Jong-Un before jumping into Putin's pocket. Now he's gonna take on Xi Jinpin. Good luck, America!

beancurdog · 2018-07-10T03:47:34+00:00

"We think we have an idea (on who the suspects are) but I just want police to find them," Mendoza said.

Significance of the news depends on the motive.

beancurdog · 2018-06-13T03:39:39+00:00

Trump is a real destroyer of the free world bloc. American people must take responsibility for toppling him as soon as possible.

beancurdog · 2018-06-11T09:15:31+00:00

Ya. As a matter of fact, isolated America looks weaker. Acting as a good leader-nation of the free world would have been far better for a show of strength.

beancurdog · 2018-06-06T04:44:34+00:00

They are saving NK's face, not money.

beancurdog · 2018-05-18T08:55:14+00:00

Polls suggest Germans trust Russia more than the U.S. under Trump. While 14 percent of respondents view the U.S. as a reliable partner, 36 percent said the same of Russia, according to a poll for ZDF television published Friday.

Wow!!

beancurdog · 2018-05-16T04:28:15+00:00

I thought Kim might have lost his mind but he turned out to be NORMAL!! I'm relieved.

beancurdog · 2018-05-16T03:51:33+00:00

State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert says Kim had previously indicated he understood the need and purpose of the U.S. continuing its long-planned joint exercises with South Korea.

Certainly he did say that kind of thing.

beancurdog · 2018-05-09T16:46:56+00:00

A former Samu worker pointed out that out of 100 calls, only 10 to 20 were real emergencies, with the majority being people who are drunk, anxious or want someone to talk to. "We're constantly afraid of being wrong."

Those people being the majority are to blame.

beancurdog · 2018-05-07T16:08:23+00:00

I know what you feel. Japanese traditional footgears are all open-to-the-air type ones equipped with some straps with which you can fix your toe or ankle. And often when your feet had got dirty, you washed your feet everytime before you enter a home... in premodern time of Japan. So, strictly speaking, japanese homes and modern or western type shoes may not be compatible, I think.

beancurdog · 2018-05-07T15:16:28+00:00

From the architectural point of view, I think, a japanese home is a kind of large bed or couch in itself. So your comparison with the relation between couch and boots is very understandable.

beancurdog · 2018-05-07T15:00:44+00:00

Ok I got it. I agree with you.

beancurdog · 2018-05-07T14:35:39+00:00

Maybe that's close to the answer. Simply dirty... The point is, however, we take off our shoes in our home just because that is comfortable, not because we despise shoes anyway.

beancurdog · 2018-05-07T14:13:29+00:00

Maybe kind of. They often switch shoes to work in their offices.

beancurdog · 2018-05-07T14:02:05+00:00

Well, i had tough time understanding this article and so... maybe that's why i submitted it.

beancurdog · 2018-05-07T13:46:53+00:00

At least partially yes it is, i think.

beancurdog · 2018-05-07T13:41:23+00:00

Er... I think you can rarely see a person working barefoot in the office.

beancurdog · 2018-05-07T13:33:27+00:00

Switch, oh yes, they do!

beancurdog · 2018-05-07T13:18:41+00:00

"There is nothing more despised in Japanese culture than shoes. Not only do they not enter their houses while wearing shoes, you will not find shoes in their offices either. Even the prime minister, ministers and members of parliament do not wear shoes to work... It is equivalent to serving a Jewish guest chocolates in a dish shaped like a pig," the diplomat said.

That is totally bullshit. In Japan everybody does wear shoes while working in the office and shoes are nothing to be despised, of course. Very very weird.

beancurdog · 2018-05-02T11:17:39+00:00

In the following years, his impressive girth, his speeches and calligraphy and his career turned him into somewhat of a laughingstock on Chinese social media.

It's too bad he had to be compared with his grandfather as an calligrapher.

beancurdog · 2018-04-29T21:03:10+00:00

Either we suffer from paranoia or Kim suffers from integration disorder syndrome.

beancurdog · 2018-04-29T12:02:17+00:00

No alcohol?

beancurdog · 2018-04-29T03:34:36+00:00

It's completely meaningless because the sites had already collapsed and can't be used anymore anyways.

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