Housekeeping found tougher than office work

Source: Miami Herald

The job of a homemaker is 20 percent more physically demanding than that of a clerical worker, according to a survey by the National Institute of Health and Nutrition and J.F. Oberlin University in Tokyo. Their research res ...
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Three notes on Fukushima: humanities after/in crisis, Andy Chih-ming Wang

Source: openDemocracy

We gather here to discuss the cultural and political implications of the Fukushima crisis, a compounded crisis that has opened my eyes to the fragility of our lives, our world, and the illusion of our assumed s ...
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Your 10 Questions for Tan Sri Fumihiko Konishi

Source: The Star Malaysia

What brought you to Malaysia and what made you stay on? Tham Ming Chong, KL I came to Malaysia as a a government sponsored member of the Japanese youth goodwill cruise in early 1968. The moment I arrived in Malaysia, I ...
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BLOG: Semicyber - Gini

Source: Disability Arts Online

Lying in bed without my wheels, it occurs to me that I am semicyber, but being without them does not free me from their impact. And these times, out of the public gaze, have no impact on the way society views me. Cyborg or cyberbodied, in ...
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At the End of the Night

Source: Wall Street Journal

Japan's renowned woodblock prints—the ones said to have inspired Western Impressionists such as Claude Monet—are known as ukiyo-e, literally "pictures of the floating world." Ukiyo-e originated in the 17th century in Edo, the ancient name ...
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Japan: Bamboo flute player to play near Sasebo Naval Base

Source: Stars and Stripes

It begins like the wind whipping through a bamboo grove, then flutters like the flight of a crane and sustains. As lungs expand and fingers hammer the small circular holes of the instrument, its sound continues to waver, dripping with the certa ...
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Japan: An unhappy country or just asking for too much?

Source: Asian Correspondent

Australia topped the OECD Better Life Index while Japan has been ranked 16th out of 36. Picture: OECD Better Life Index The results of the OECD Better Life Index have revealed that Australia is the “happiest” industrialized country in the ...
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Solutia Demonstrates Advanced Solar Control, Acoustic Technologies for Automotive Glazing at JSAE 2012

Source: PR Newswire

AtLeast one of the check box should be selected You are following news about Follow the latest news about SOA TOKYO and ST. LOUIS, May 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Starting today, Solutia Inc. (NYSE: SOA) will showcase adv ...
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“People Who Eat Darkness”: The disappearing blonde

Source: Salon

Lucie Blackman, 21, went out for the afternoon in 2000, phoning her roommate and best friend Louise to arrange a meeting later that night. Lucie never showed up, and within a few days she’d become one of those va ...
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