Japanese Working Women Still Serve the Tea
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TOKYO -- During her many years working for a major Japanese trading company, Michiko Koseki said, she and her female co-workers have suffered a series of indignities both small and large. But the 59-year-old clerical worker was nevertheless shocked a few years ago when her company suddenly decided...
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Japan's first female defense minister vowed on Wednesday to strengthen ties with Tokyo's close security ally, the United States, and improve working conditions for women in the nation's military.
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The resignation of Uri Party chairman Shin Ki-nam after disclosures that his father was a Japanese collaborator is an example showing that the memory of Japanese imperialism is still alive in China and South Korea, the Washington Post reported on Friday.
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Taiwanese people, who are proud of their elegant tea culture, are flocking to smart coffee bars in droves, boosting the profits of foreign chains who are seeking to expand in Asia, industry watchers say.
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KYOTO, Japan -- His fingers muscled from almost a century of weaving, Yasujiro Yamaguchi worked the humming loom in his private workshop. Patiently lacing golden threads through a warp of auburn silk, he fashioned a bolt of kimono fabric blooming with an autumn garden in shades of tea green, ginger, and plum.
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NEW YORK  - Women who drink tea may be protecting themselves from a build-up of artery-clogging plaque, so lowering their risk for heart disease and stroke, findings from a French study suggest.
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TOKYO: The Japanese government decided on Monday to look at allowing a female to ascend the throne of the worldâs oldest royal line in a move that could ease stress on the crown princess to produce a male heir.
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Japanese politicians played down Sunday the significance of a US proposed resolution demanding Japan apologise over use of sex slaves, many of them Chinese and Korean women, during World War II.
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By MICHAEL LIEDTKE  SAN FRANCISCO - Battling to keep her job, Hewlett-Packard Co.
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Tainted hot springs in at least 20 resort towns in Japan include several whose waters had been celebrated for centuries. The disclosures of fraud at the springs have stained one of the most precious rituals of Japanese culture -- group bathing.
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The Internet, husbands who help with  housework, and merit-based pay are helping Japanese women find  a formula for balancing careers and families.
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe&#39;s  support remains stuck at slightly above 30 percent, which many  analysts consider a crisis level, a survey showed on Monday,  just over a month before an upper house election.
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TOKYO -- Thin and gorgeous in a slinky black dress, Mikimoto pearls and a low-slung diamond Tiffany pendant, 26-year-old Kazumi Yoshimura already has looks, cash and accessories. There's only one more thing this single Japanese woman says she needs to find eternal bliss -- a Korean man.
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In Japan, the cell phone strap is a form of self-expression. By Lisa Katayama.
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Japan is pretty serious about robotics. If the droids are going to fit in, they probably need to learn the Japanese custom of serving tea.
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At least one furniture maker still knows how to sell the stuff.
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Emi Fujiwara's holidays can hardly be called that as she juggles a full-time job and evening studies and tries to find money and time to buy presents, organize parties and cook for family and friends.