• MEXT to manage teachers’ work hours over the course of the year, shorten limits during holiday periods;
• Debate begins on expanding eligibility for Kosei Nenkin;
• Government back to square one on expansion of discretionary labor system;
• Entire municipality in rampant violation of own ordinance;
• Ministry considers stopping Saturday mail delivery;
• More say they will depend on working income than pensions in their old age;
• 10 years after Lehman Shock, corporate profits up, but sales still not returning;
• Number of foreign residents higher than ever before;
• And more!
(Translated from Japanese)