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Friday, July 4, 13:59 (JST) |
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Rio de Japano
What does Japan, that most xenophobic of nations, do to staff its factories? At Toyota's home base, it brings in aliens. Inside Barracao Do Tio, a hastily erected roadside eatery, Hidetoshi Hishinuma, or Karioka, as he is known to his fellow Brazilians, puts down the deep-fried chicken dumpling he's eating, wipes oil from his fingers and lips with a paper napkin and picks up the cell phone buzzing on the table in front of him. It's someone looking for work, he shouts above the clatter of dominoes at the next table. (Forbes)
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| (AFP/File) - Pedestrians in the Ginza district of Tokyo on July 1. Japanese shares have fallen for an 11th straight session, the longest losing streak in half a century, on worries about the health of the global economy and high oil prices(AFP/File/Yoshikazu Tsuno) |
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| (AFP/File) - Chinese fans wave flags and chant before the start of Japan vs North Korea game in the East Asian Women's Football Championships, in Chongqing, in February. Japan who played China next faced the prospect of a stadium packed with Chinese fans still angry at their neighbour's World War II aggression.(AFP/File/Peter Parks) |
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AFP - Japan is ready to spare humpback whales from its Antarctic hunt for another year if international whaling talks make progress, a senior Japanese official said Wednesday.
