Paraguayan President Horacio Cartes agreed Wednesday to improve the investment climate in the South American country in an effort to attract more Japanese firms.
“Japanese companies have created jobs for our young people,” Cartes said at a joint press conference with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe following summit talks in Tokyo. “We’ve also received cooperation from Japan for a wide range of development projects.”
Japanese teachers work an average of 53.9 hours per week, the highest figure among the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s 34 member countries, according to a survey released Wednesday.
The figure for Japan was well above the average of 38.3 hours among OECD members, according to the Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS), which Japan participated in for the first time.
The sexist taunting of a female politician during a recent session of the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly drew rapid condemnation from some quarters, but little disbelief.
The problem is long-running and many victims tend to accept it and suffer in silence, some assembly members say.
A Tokyo assemblywoman subjected to sexist taunts by male colleagues last week said Tuesday the capital’s legislative body needs to be reformed so that the voices of women can be heard.
“A local-level assembly like the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly is not a friendly place for women to work, and it doesn’t make use of women’s dynamism,” Ayaka Shiomura, a member of Your Party, told a packed Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan in Tokyo.
The Cabinet of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Tuesday adopted a set of economic reform strategies to boost mid- to long-term economic growth, including attracting more foreign investors to prop up stock prices.
The Japan Revitalization Strategy — the “third arrow” of “Abenomics” — includes a pledge to cut corporate tax, welcome more foreign workers, help working women and shake up the portfolio of the Government Pension Investment Fund, the world’s largest.
A man under the influence of quasi-legal herbs drove a speeding car into pedestrians Tuesday evening in the bustling Tokyo district of Ikebukuro, leaving one person dead and six people injured.
The driver, Keiji Nagura, a 37-year-old restaurant manager from Yoshikawa, Saitama Prefecture, was arrested Tuesday on initial suspicion of negligent driving resulting in injury. The incident killed a woman in her 20s, while six other pedestrians were injured, police said.
日本が１－４でコロンビアに敗れ、ブラジルＷ杯グループリーグ敗退が決まった今大会の第３戦を、元ヴェルディ総監督の李国秀氏に分析してもらった。（聞き手は、塩見要次郎・読売新聞サッカー推進事務局長）
サッカーのワールドカップ（Ｗ杯）ブラジル大会のグループリーグＣ組の日本―コロンビア戦（２４日＝日本時間２５日、１―４で日本の敗戦）で、日本はシュート数や獲得したコーナーキック（ＣＫ）の本数など、複数の指標でコロンビアを上回りながら、迎えた好機を確実に決められて敗れたことが、国際サッカー連盟（ＦＩＦＡ）が発表したデータからわかった。
データによると、シュート本数は、日本の２３本（うち枠内シュート数は１３本）に対し、コロンビアは１３本（同９本）と約半数だった。選手別にみると、両チームを通じて最多だったのは、香川の５本（同１本）。４本で続いたのは、本田（同３本）、大久保（同１本）、２得点でこの試合の最優秀選手に選ばれたマルティネス（同３本）の３人だった。後半開始時に交代出場し、試合終了間際にだめ押し点を挙げたロドリゲスは、３本すべてを枠内に入れた。
サッカーのワールドカップ（Ｗ杯）ブラジル大会は２４日午後（日本時間２５日午前）、グループリーグＣ組の最終戦が行われ、最終順位が確定した。
既にグループリーグ突破を決めていたコロンビアと、最終戦で勝利したギリシャが決勝トーナメントへ進出した。
サッカーのワールドカップ（Ｗ杯）ブラジル大会は２４日午後４時（日本時間２５日午前５時）から、クイアバでグループリーグＣ組の日本―コロンビア戦が行われ、日本は１―４でコロンビアに敗れて、グループリーグ敗退が決まった。
互いに立ち上がりから積極的に攻め合う展開となったが、日本は１７分、コロンビアにＰＫを決められ、１点を先制された。
