2015-12-07 / 最終更新日 : 2020-04-17 Aki@英語ニュース 社会 フェイスブックCEOの寄付が反発に直面【Facebook CEO faces backlash over his donation】 Days after the Facebook CEO announced he would donate 99 percent of his company shares to charitable causes, some critics questioned how the money would be used.
2015-11-19 / 最終更新日 : 2019-05-05 Aki@英語ニュース 社会 マタハラ訴訟で病院に損害賠償の判決【Hospital ordered to pay damages over maternity harassment】 A high court in western Japan ordered a hospital on Tuesday to pay about 1.75 million yen in damages to a physical therapist who was demoted due to pregnancy in a “maternity harassment” case.
2015-11-02 / 最終更新日 : 2019-05-05 Aki@英語ニュース 社会 学校関係者への謝礼で出版社にけん責【Publisher rapped for paying school officials】 The education ministry on Friday reprimanded a Tokyo publisher for paying junior high school officials last year for feedback on its English textbook under government screening.
2015-10-26 / 最終更新日 : 2020-02-06 Aki@英語ニュース 社会 日本の住民が「マイナンバー」受け取りへ【Residents in Japan to receive “My Number”】 Japan’s municipalities began on Friday to send notices showing 12-digit identification numbers to all residents in the nation under a new number system for tax and social security purposes called “My Number”.
2015-10-21 / 最終更新日 : 2020-02-06 Aki@英語ニュース 社会 旭化成が横浜のマンション傾斜で謝罪【Asahi Kasei apologizes for tilting Yokohama condo】 The president of Asahi Kasei Corp. on Tuesday apologized for a subsidiary’s involvement in faulty piling work and data fabrication for a tilting condominium building in Yokohama.
2015-09-16 / 最終更新日 : 2020-02-06 Aki@英語ニュース 社会 安保法案に反対して抗議集会【Protesters rally against security bills】 More than 10,000 people gathered in front of the Diet building in Tokyo on Monday to protest national security bills that the Prime Minister aims to enact this week.
2015-08-31 / 最終更新日 : 2020-01-31 Aki@英語ニュース 社会 暴力団抗争の渦中で警察が警戒【Police on alert amid gang war】 Japan’s police have gone on high alert amid reports the nation’s biggest organized crime syndicate based in the western city of Kobe has split into different factions.
2015-06-22 / 最終更新日 : 2020-01-28 Aki@英語ニュース 社会 幹部の逮捕でトヨタの社長が謝罪【Toyota president apologizes for executive’s arrest】 The president of Toyota Motor Corp. issued an apology on Friday for the arrest of its top female executive, a 55-year-old American, who was suspected of importing illegal drugs.
2015-06-08 / 最終更新日 : 2020-01-28 Aki@英語ニュース 社会 MERSの死者が韓国で5人に増加【MERS deaths rise to five in South Korea】 South Korea said on Sunday that a 75-year-old man died of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome or MERS, bringing the total of deaths to five since its outbreak last month.
2015-05-25 / 最終更新日 : 2020-01-28 Aki@英語ニュース 社会 水族館が追い込み漁のイルカ購入停止へ【Japan aquariums to stop buying dolphins from drive hunt】 Japan’s aquariums decided on Wednesday to stop acquiring dolphins caught in controversial drive hunts off the town of Taiji in western Japan after a global zoo body criticized the practice as cruel.
2015-05-11 / 最終更新日 : 2020-01-26 Aki@英語ニュース 社会 サルのシャーロットが名前を保持【Monkey Charlotte retains her name】 A zoo in southwestern Japan decided not to change the name of a monkey on Friday despite being flooded with complaints from the public over naming her Charlotte after Britain’s newborn princess.
2015-02-18 / 最終更新日 : 2020-01-28 Aki@英語ニュース 社会 世論調査で52%が同性婚を支持【Poll shows 52% support same-sex partnership】 A poll by a major Japanese newspaper showed that 52% of those surveyed support a plan by a ward in Tokyo to issue partnership certificates to gay couples, compared to 27% who disagree.