そだねー

#59036; そだねー that’s it "Sodane," which Japan's women curling team often used to say "that's it" while playing during the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, has been selected as Japan's top buzzword for 2018, the award's organizer, publishing company U-Can, said Monday. "Sodane" can also be said when nodding in response. The term caught on as the curling team from Hokkaido spoke it with..

不意打ち

#59036; 不意打ち ambush Japan has always had an insular corporate culture, and Mr. Ghosn was a rare foreign executive to break that bamboo curtain. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has promoted reforms in corporate governance since the accounting scandals, but he has also promoted more Japanese nationalism. Without more transparency, an open account of the allegations, and an opportuni..

異端審問

#59036; 異端審問 inquisition A CEO once hailed as a business savior is arrested at the airport, held in detention for days without being charged, interrogated by prosecutors without a lawyer present, and fired from his post amid media leaks claiming he’s guilty of financial malfeasance. Communist China? No, capitalist Japan, where former Nissan Motors CEO Carlos Ghosn is enduring ..

衝撃が走り抜ける

#59036; (～中に)衝撃が走り抜ける send shockwaves through The board of Nissan has voted to sack its chairman, Carlos Ghosn, days after his arrest for alleged financial misconduct sent shockwaves through the business world. The seven-member board voted unanimously to dismiss Ghosn, who is credited with saving the carmaker from bankruptcy when he took over almost two decades ago and forging a successful all..

入管難民法改正案

#59036; 入管難民法改正案 amendment to the immigration control law An amendment to the immigration control law with the aim of accepting more foreign workers is being discussed in the Diet. The revision has two pillars ? the creation of new visa categories for foreign workers with certain skills and the establishment of an immigration control agency as an extra-ministerial bureau of the Justice Ministry. Th..

主催する

#59036; 主催する host A Japanese minister in charge of cybersecurity has provoked astonishment by admitting he has never used a computer in his professional life, and appearing confused by the concept of a USB drive. Yoshitaka Sakurada, 68, is the deputy chief of the government’s cybersecurity strategy office and also the minister in charge of the Olympic and Paralympic..

雇用契約

#59036; 雇用契約 employment contract The overhaul, which would come into effect in April if passed during the current extraordinary Diet session, would create two new residence status types for foreign individuals working in sectors suffering labor shortages. The first category would be renewable for up to five years and would require applicants to have a certain level of skill and exp..

取り組む

#59036; 取り組む address The Cabinet approved a bill Friday that would overhaul the nation’s immigration control law by introducing new visa categories for foreign workers, in an attempt to address the graying population and shrinking workforce. “Creating a new residence status to accept foreign workers is of utmost importance as the nation’s population declines and businesses suf..

存在感を強める

#57883; step up one’s presence Police in Shibuya are stepping up their presence for Halloween for the next three nights after a wild weekend. On Sunday, police said five people had been arrested on charges of groping, camera voyeurism, fighting and destruction of property during Saturday night revelry. (Kyodo 2018/10/29) 「和訳」 渋..

自己責任

#57883; 自己責任 personal responsibility The Japanese government and ruling parties appear to be holding off on criticism of a freelance journalist who returned to Tokyo on Thursday after spending 40 months in captivity in war-torn Syria, in stark contrast with similar incidents in the past. When citizens, particularly journalists, have been taken captive in conflict zones in the past, crit..

免震装置

#57883; 免震装置 earthquake shock absorber A Japanese maker of earthquake shock absorbers said on Friday that at least 70 buildings across the country may have used its products for which quality data was falsified and that nearly 1,000 are suspected of having done so. KYB Corp said this week it had falsified data on the quality of some of its earthquake shock absorbers since at least 2003 in..

(他人に)成り済ます

#59036; (他人に)成り済ます impersonate Sekisui House had paid 6.3 billion yen by June 1 last year for the site of a closed inn near JR Gotanda Station. But the company's application to change its ownership was rejected by the Legal Affairs Bureau after the documents provided by the suspects were found to have been falsified. The real landowner died in June last year after being hospitalized for..

地面師グループ

#59036; 地面師グループ land scam group Land scam group sent Sekisui House payments to multiple accounts Fraud suspects in a bogus land deal targeting Sekisui House Ltd are believed to have sent payments from the major Japanese homebuilder to multiple accounts and remitted a part of the money overseas, investigative sources said Wednesday. (Kyodo 2018/10/17) 「和訳」 ..

観光公害-②

#59036; 観光公害-② overtourism Japan is launching its first survey on "overtourism," or the phenomenon of a popular destination becoming overrun with tourists in an unsustainable way, to counter nuisances such as noise and congestion that disrupt locals' lives, according to officials. (Japan Today 2018/10/15) 「和訳」 日本は、有名観光地が観光客で..

女性活躍の社会

#57883; 女性活躍の社会 society where women can be more active “We must recognise that the ratio of women cabinet ministers is low compared with other countries, but Japan has just begun to create a society where women can be more active,” he said. “I think we will nurture people who can become cabinet ministers.” He claimed that the lone female appointee, the former career bureaucrat Katayama, had the..

急増する

#59036;(～が)急増する see a surge in ～ Japan has seen a surge in foreign students enrolling in nursing care schools, with the number nearly doubling this academic year amid a labor shortage in the caregiving sector in the rapidly graying country, a survey show Monday. A total of 1,142 foreign students enrolled in schools with nursing care programs in April, up from 591 a year earlier, accord..

稼働を開始する

#59036; 稼働を開始する come online Hokkaido Electric Power Co. announced that the No. 1 unit at its Kyogoku pumped hydroelectric power plant in the town of Kyogoku was restarted on Thursday evening. The unit, which has an output of 200,000 kilowatts, had been shut down due to an equipment malfunction. The No. 2 unit, which also has an output of 200,000 kilowatts, was expected to come online on Friday. (Th..

液状化現象

#59036; 液状化現象 liquefaction The Sapporo city government estimated damage to its public facilities, mainly roads, would top 10 billion yen. Liquefaction reportedly destroyed at least 10 houses in Kiyota Ward, Sapporo. Damage from liquefaction also has been confirmed in the city's Higashi Ward and the cities of Ebetsu, Kitahiroshima and Tomakomai. (The Straits Times 2018/9/15) ..

まとめ買いする

#59036; まとめ買いする stock up on Public transport services were halted citywide after major tremors shook Osaka in June and Hokkaido last week. But, in both places, that didn’t stop salarymen and women in their customary dark suits making their way to work-some by walking for at least an hour. Orderly queues formed outside convenience stores and supermarkets that remained open, with stoical resid..

避難勧告

#59036; 避難勧告 evacuation recommendations More than 220 died in floods in July mainly because "less than one percent of people affected by local evacuation recommendations actually went to the shelters, thinking that there would not be a problem," notes Jean-Francois Heimburger, an expert on natural disasters in the country. Unlike in other countries, even the highest levels of evacuation orde..