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1 The people literally operative to death Thought you worked long hours? Try moving to Japan, where the work culture is so intense it can literally cost you your life. IF YOU thought staying back in the 2016-10-16 00:00 6KB headlinenewstoday.net
2 Despite lots of construction, Southern California rents hit all-time Shilpa Desai thought Orange County rents would be cheaper. The 33-year-old pediatrician and her husband had been living in Los Angeles’ Little Tokyo Arts District, where rents reach nearly $3,000 a month. Surely, Anaheim’s P 2016-10-15 19:54 6KB www.presstelegram.com
3 NASCAR XFINITY-Kansas Lottery 300 Results 1. (1) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 200 laps, 150.0 rating, 0 points. 2. (8) Elliott Sadler, Chevrolet, 200, 116.6, 39. 3. (4) Daniel Suarez, Toyota, 200, 113.3, 39. ... 2016-10-15 18:53 3KB www.dailymail.co.uk
4 2017 World Car of the Year: Baleno and India-bound Ignis nominated The Japanese automaker Suzuki has announced that two of its offerings – the Baleno and Ignis – will be competing in the 2017 World Car of the Year awards (WCOTY). ... 2016-10-15 18:15 707Bytes article.wn.com Articles
DC5m United States japan in english 4 articles, created at 2016-10-16 06:19
1 /4 The people literally operative to death Thought we worked prolonged hours? Try relocating to Japan, where a work enlightenment is so heated it can literally cost we your life.
IF YOU suspicion staying behind in a bureau a few hours any week was rough, try relocating to Japan.
In a nation where a infancy of workers will frequency switch companies or careers once they’ve cumulative a position, and have among a lowest allotted annual leave advantages of any nation in a world, employees are scandalous for their diseased operative hours.
Almost a entertain of companies there have certified that some of their employees work good over hours, with some companies revelation their staff did some-more than 100 hours of overtime a month.
At a same time, data from a World Bank found Japan to be one of a slightest inexhaustible countries in a universe for paid leave.
Employees in Japan on normal are usually entitled to 10 days’ paid leave, and 0 paid holidays. Many won’t use even half their allotted days off for a year.
A apart investigate found that one in 6 workers in Japan took no paid holidays during all.
Australia, by comparison, offers 20 days’ paid leave and 8 days of paid open holidays.
Austria and Portugal came out on tip for many paid days off in a year, with 22 days and 13 days of paid leave respectively.
The disproportion in work cultures is confronting, generally deliberation there’s a distinguished rate of work-related deaths as a outcome of a pressure.
KAROSHI — WHEN YOUR JOB CAN BE FATAL
The operative enlightenment in Japan can be so heartless for some that it formula in work- related fatalities. It’s a amicable illness distinguished adequate to have a possess name, called karoshi.
Employers are worked to a indicate where it becomes fatal, typically due to stress-induced heart conflict or cadence and a starvation diet.
According to The Japan Times , a supervision concurred a sum of 96 deaths from work-related attacks in a mercantile year finale in March, and awarded remuneration for a serve 93 cases in that people committed or attempted suicide.
Emiko Teranishi, 67, is a conduct of a national network dedicated to preventing karoshi during a authorised level.
Ms Teranishi mislaid her father to work-related self-murder in a 1990s. He was a manager of a soba noodle restaurant, and worked so tough he became sleep-deprived and vexed amid an mercantile retrogression during a time.
“He worked 4000 hours a year,” Ms Teranishi told The Japan Times . “The association had him punch a time label each day, so it knew that he worked that hard. In a days before his death, he had told his trainer he had no appetite, he couldn’t nap and was exhausted. The association knew he was during high risk (of karoshi).”
Japan’s heated operative enlightenment can kill people. Source: istock
A identical though even some-more critical work-related condition in Japan is karōjisatsu, in that a chairman deliberately commits self-murder due to pursuit stress.
In Dec final year, a self-murder of a immature lady who worked for promotion hulk Dentsu Inc. was rarely publicised after it was ruled to be a genocide by overwork.
Matsuri Takahashi, 24, killed herself while she worked for a agency’s Digital Account division, according to internal media reports.
The family’s lawyers pronounced her effort increasing drastically over her time during Dentsu; from Oct 9 to Nov 7, her sum overtime work totalled 105 hours.
In a lead-up to her death, she sent colleagues and friends messages by amicable media observant she wanted to die.
Authorities who legalised her box resolved she had suffered a mental relapse formed on a psychological weight of operative so most overtime.
According to National Police Agency statistics cited by a Japan Times, 2159 people took their possess lives due to work-related problems final year.
WHAT’S THE GOVERNMENT DOING ABOUT IT?
The Japanese supervision has only released a first-ever white paper on karoshi.
The country’s primary minister, Shinzo Abe, is seeking to deliver a authorised roof on a volume of overtime a chairman can time a month.
The Japanese supervision is also aiming to reduce a commission of employees operative some-more than 60 hours per week to 5 per cent of a sum workforce.
It also intends to remonstrate all workers to take during slightest 70 per cent of their paid holiday by 2020.
But a difficulty is, karoshi stems from a amicable problem embedded low within Japanese society, that has been concurred as distant behind as a 1980s. The amicable vigour total with a rival enterprise to attain creates it formidable to remonstrate workers to take some-more time off.
Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is seeking to deliver a authorised roof on a volume of overtime work a chairman can do per month. Source: AFP
A new check by a supervision anticipating 20 per cent of a whole workforce faced risk of genocide from overwork.
The investigate targeted around 10,000 companies and 20,000 workers, of that 1743 companies and 19,583 workers responded.
The investigate found that 21 per cent of Japanese employees record 49 hours or some-more per week. But that’s only a beginning.
More than 22 per cent of enterprises reported that some of their workers put in some-more than 80 hours of overtime per month. This additional 80 hours — some 4 hours per day — is strictly famous as a threshold after that risk of genocide escalates dramatically.
Worse still, 11.9 per cent of companies pronounced they had workers logging some-more than 100 hours of additional time per month. Almost 30 per cent of these busy employees are employed in IT and communications, a investigate showed.
Academia, postal services and ride are also areas where employees tend to work extra-long hours.
So, how’s your pursuit looking to we now?
2016-10-16 00:00 admin headlinenewstoday.net
2 /4 Despite lots of construction, Southern California rents hit all-time By Jeff Collins , [email protected]
Posted: 10/15/16, 4:54 PM PDT | Updated: 41 secs ago
Shilpa Desai thought Orange County rents would be cheaper.
The 33-year-old pediatrician and her husband had been living in Los Angeles’ Little Tokyo Arts District, where rents reach nearly $3,000 a month. Surely, Anaheim’s Platinum Triangle would be economical by comparison – especially since there are so many apartments under construction there.
“But that’s not driving the rents down,” Desai said of all the new building. The two-bedroom she and her husband rent for more than $2,000 a month at the Stadium Lofts is “much lower than what I was paying in L. A., but not as low as I expected.”
Despite having about 10,800 new apartments under construction in Orange County, and 25,000 new units in the works in Los Angeles County, rents continue to climb throughout the region.
The average asking rent for an Orange County apartment hit $1,781 a month this summer, following 61/2 years of steady hikes, according to Reis Inc. In the past 41/2 years alone, rents are up 14.3 percent, or $223 a month. In Los Angeles County, the average asking rent hit $1,676 a month, rising nearly 18 percent over the past 41/2 years, Reis reported. In the Inland Empire, rents were up 17 percent to $1,239.
For all three metro areas, rents are at all-time highs.
“These new properties coming online don’t have that much impact on the middle- and lower-end product because that is so vast,” said Greg Willett, chief economist for RealPage, which owns apartment tracker MPF Research. “There’s no way you’re going to lose tenants from the middle- to low-end to the high-end (apartments).”
Southern California isn’t alone. Apartment rents increased in all 79 major U. S. metro areas Reis tracks. The average for all 79 metros was $1,271 a month, up 19 percent over the past 4 1/2 years.
Orange County rents were the ninth highest among the top 79 U. S. cities, trailing metro areas such as New York, San Francisco, Boston and Silicon Valley. Los Angeles County had the 12th highest rent among large U. S. cities; the Inland Empire ranked 23rd out of 79.
To afford the average Orange County apartment, a tenant needs to earn at least $71,000 a year, assuming an affordable unit costs no more than 30 percent of a renter’s gross pay.
In L. A. County, the minimum annual income to afford an average unit is $67,000; in the Inland Empire, it’s just under $50,000.
Job growth and low homeownership rates are key reasons why apartment vacancies remain low, Willett said. Additionally, demographics plays a role. Millennials, or 19- to 35-year-olds, are the biggest portion of the population, and as they move into homes of their own, they tend to rent.
And since millennials are delaying marriage and waiting longer to have children – key triggers to becoming homeowners – they are expected to continue renting for years to come, economists say.
As a result, Southern California vacancy rates ranged from 2.6 percent this summer in the Inland Empire, to 3.5 percent in Los Angeles County and 3.6 percent in Orange County, according to Reis. The national vacancy rate – based on the top 79 metro areas – was 4.4 percent.
In most places, a vacancy rate of 4 percent or less is considered full.
“Renters are going through so much. It’s such a nightmare,” said Hugo Gonsalez, manager for Nextrent.com, a Santa Ana rental listing service. “In 16 years, I’ve never seen such a shortage of properties.” Renters said they had no trouble finding an apartment in Anaheim’s Park Varidian complex, where rents start at $1,700 a month for a studio and top $2,300 a month for a two-bedroom, two- bath unit.
But there’s still some sticker shock after realizing how much it costs for a unit with underground parking, a pool, gym, business center and weekly cooking demonstrations, said Rashelle McCarroll, 26, who moved there in May after four years exploring the West in a 37-foot travel trailer.
“For a two-bedroom, it was expensive,” McCarroll said of the apartment she shares with her husband, a utilities lineman, her 31/2-year-old son and Bochy, a chocolate Labrador. “It’s pricy, but I like the people, the (nearby) park, and I like all the restaurants around here.”
But it’s a scramble to find a rental for tenants seeking a more affordable price, landlords say.
NextRent’s Gonsalez said he only has about 10 two-bedroom listings for under $1,500 a month.
“We used to have hundreds of them,” he said. And when a desirable unit pops up, there are at least 30 applicants. “That’s why the landlords are having a field day.”
Property owner Rachel Oronoz said she got nine or 10 calls a day on her two-bedroom Fullerton apartment in August. It rented for $1,400 a month in just a few days, but she continued to get calls for about a month.
Landlord Ken Clements, 73, of Temecula, also got swamped with calls for his one-bedroom “honeymoon cottage” in Buena Park that he listed for the bargain price of $1,250 a month. He rented it out on the first day, but continued getting five to 10 calls a day for more than a week.
One property manager said he’s getting “crazy money” for a Garden Grove one-bedroom unit with old carpet and outdated appliances after dropping the price to $1,400 a month. He said he got more than 100 calls for that unit, one of three vacancies out of 950 apartments he manages.
“I think it’s one of the worst times (for renters),” said Gonsalez. “Now, the incomes have risen. But whatever income they’re getting, it hasn’t risen as much as rents.”
2016-10-15 19:54 By Jeff www.presstelegram.com
3 /4 NASCAR XFINITY-Kansas Lottery 300 Results 1. (1) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 200 laps, 150.0 rating, 0 points. 2. (8) Elliott Sadler, Chevrolet, 200, 116.6, 39. 3. (4) Daniel Suarez, Toyota, 200, 113.3, 39. 4. (11) Joey Logano, Ford, 200, 109.5, 0. 5. (3) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet, 200, 107.1, 0. 6. (10) Regan Smith, Chevrolet, 200, 103.6, 0. 7. (12) Brennan Poole, Chevrolet, 200, 90.3, 34. 8. (14) Brandon Jones, Chevrolet, 200, 94.5, 33. 9. (9) Blake Koch, Chevrolet, 200, 88.9, 32. 10. (21) J. J. Yeley, Toyota, 200, 80.2, 31. 11. (13) Matt DiBenedetto, Toyota, 200, 81.0, 0. 12. (7) Ty Dillon, Chevrolet, 200, 94.9, 30. 13. (20) Ross Chastain, Chevrolet, 200, 76.4, 28. 14. (5) Justin Allgaier, Chevrolet, 199, 95.2, 27. 15. (2) Erik Jones, Toyota, 199, 113.9, 27. 16. (22) Ryan Reed, Ford, 198, 63.1, 25. 17. (6) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet, 197, 79.7, 0. 18. (25) Garrett Smithley, Chevrolet, 197, 60.0, 23. 19. (23) Ray Black Jr, Chevrolet, 196, 61.5, 22. 20. (16) Dakoda Armstrong, Toyota, 196, 63.3, 21. 21. (31) Jeff Green, Ford, 196, 55.5, 20. 22. (33) B J McLeod, Ford, 195, 48.7, 19. 23. (30) Joey Gase, Chevrolet, 195, 46.3, 18. 24. (26) David Starr, Chevrolet, 195, 50.7, 17. 25. (29) Brandon Brown, Chevrolet, 194, 49.8, 0. 26. (34) Martin Roy, Chevrolet, 192, 40.7, 15. 27. (38) Josh Reaume, Ford, 191, 39.2, 14. 28. (27) Jeremy Clements, Chevrolet, engine, 190, 52.2, 13. 29. (37) Jennifer Jo Cobb, Ford, 188, 33.5, 0. 30. (39) Mike Harmon, Dodge, 188, 31.1, 11. 31. (18) Brendan Gaughan, Chevrolet, 182, 67.7, 10. 32. (24) Ryan Preece, Chevrolet, 172, 57.7, 9. 33. (15) Darrell Wallace Jr, Ford, accident, 165, 73.3, 9. 34. (17) Ryan Sieg, Chevrolet, accident, 162, 59.8, 7. 35. (19) Cole Custer, Chevrolet, accident, 162, 59.0, 0. 36. (32) Ryan Ellis, Chevrolet, electrical, 142, 39.8, 5. 37. (35) Matt Waltz, Chevrolet, engine, 126, 32.0, 4. 38. (36) Derrike Cope, Chevrolet, transmission, 91, 27.3, 3. 39. (40) Brandon Hightower, Toyota, transmission, 62, 30.8, 2. 40. (28) Timmy Hill, Dodge, electrical, 11, 24.5, 0. ___ Average Speed of Race Winner: 109.250 mph. Time of Race: 2 hours, 44 minutes, 45 seconds. Margin of Victory: 4.025 seconds. Caution Flags: 10 for 51 laps. Lead Changes: 17 among 7 drivers. Lap Leaders: K. Busch 1-10; E. Jones 11; K. Busch 12-51; D. Suarez 52-53; K. Busch 54-65; E. Jones 66-68; K. Busch 69-88; D. Wallace 89-91; K. Busch 92- 114; J. Logano 115-116; K. Busch 117-147; R. Smith 148-158; T. Dillon 159; R. Smith 160-164; T. Dillon 165-175; E. Jones 176-182; D. Suarez 183-186; K. Busch 187-200 Leaders Summary (Driver, Times Led, Laps Led): K. Busch, 7 times for 143 laps; R. Smith, 2 times for 14 laps; T. Dillon, 2 times for 10 laps; E. Jones, 3 times for 8 laps; D. Suarez, 2 times for 4 laps; D. Wallace, 1 time for 2 laps; J. Logano, 1 time for 1 lap. Wins: K. Busch, 8; E. Jones, 4; E. Sadler, 3; A. Dillon, 2; J. Logano, 2; D. Suarez, 2; K. Larson, 1. Top 10 in Points: 1. J. Allgaier, 3000; 2. B. Gaughan, 3000; 3. E. Jones, 3000; 4. B. Koch, 3000; 5. R. Reed, 3000; 6. E. Sadler, 3000; 7. D. Suarez, 3000; 8. D. Wallace, 3000; 9. T. Dillon, 2084; 10. B. Poole, 2080. ___ A maximum of 150 points can be attained in a race. The formula combines the following categories: Wins, Finishes, Top-15 Finishes, Average Running Position While on Lead Lap, Average Speed Under Green, Fastest Lap, Led Most Laps, Lead-Lap Finish.
2016-10-15 18:53 Associated Press www.dailymail.co.uk
4 /4 2017 World Car of the Year: Baleno and India-bound Ignis nominated The Japanese automaker Suzuki has announced that two of its offerings – the Baleno and Ignis – will be competing in the 2017 World Car of the Year awards (WCOTY). ...
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