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Office Worker for Property Management and Facility Management

Requirements: 1. Computer literacy 2. College graduate 3. Bilingual (English: Native level, Japanese: Business Level) 4. Experience in real estate and accounting preferred. 5. knowledge about facility engineering Pay: ￥280,000/mo. Company housing Retirement age: 65 yrs old and above Paid vacation and holiday, and health ins.(partial) Workplace: Tokyo Metro area More details here

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School violence set record last year

A record 59,618 acts of violent behavior by children were logged by elementary, junior high and high schools nationwide in fiscal 2008, marking the third consecutive annual rise, the education ministry said Monday. Reports of violent acts in junior high schools were up by some 6,000 from a year earlier, accounting for 72 percent of overall [...]

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China, Japan honoured by UNESCO heritage board

China and Japan swept the board of additions to the United Nations’ list of cultural treasures on Wednesday, accounting for nearly half of the ancient customs and handicrafts honoured by UNESCO. Japan saw 13 additions, many of them folk dances and processions, from an annual float-ceremony in Kyoto to a seventh-century rice harvest ritual from [...]

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One in four women in Japan is at least 65 years old, government estimates

In yet another sign the Japanese population is getting older, one in four women is now 65 or older, while one out of almost every five men is reaching that milestone, according to a government estimate ahead of Respect for the Elderly Day on Monday. Elderly people - or those at least 65 years old, according [...]

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