Japan Standard Time is nine hours ahead of the Coordinated Universal Time standard, written as an offset of UTC + 9:00. That means to find the standard time in the zone you must add nine hours to Coordinated Universal Time. Territories observing the time zone are primarily in Asia. It ...
Thu, Jan 9 20257:12 PM EST Japan household spending slips 0.4% in November Real household spendingin Japan fell 0.4% year on year, declining for a fourth straight month. This was a softer fall compared to the 0.6% decline expected by a Reuters poll of economists, and a...
The Fork program, as it was commonly now called (alongside the new expression “to get forked”), acquired a formal name, “deferred resignation,” and the paid time off without working became “administrative leave.” An involuntary retirement is called the Orwellian “Discontinued Service ...
At the same time, Japan and the Japanese media pay a great deal of attention to the UN, so when a special rapporteur's report is released it tends to gather more attention than might be the case in a country such as the United States. The next commenter observed that the presumption ...
…Japan does have an underbelly of poor people, but compared to America, relatively few are truly left behind financially. …America has more than two times more very wealthy people than Japan, but it also has more than five times more poor people. …In the past eight years, the bottom ...
Australia'sS&P/ASX 200fell 0.69% to close at 8,359.4 afterhitting a new all-time closing high on Monday. Japan'sNikkei 225shed 0.87% to close at 38,442, while the Topix lost 0.96% to close at 2,689.55.Japan's service PPI rose 2.9%year on year, compared to a 2.8% rise the previ...
To prove the same as a civil case and then demand significant penalties ($250 million and Trump can no longer do business in New York state) is a big ask. Even The New York Times had to admit James will have a hard time proving the case: “Property valuations are often subjective, an...
Public opinion on capital punishment is largely resistant to abolitionists' attempts to change it, and the straightest road to abolition may involve "bypassing public opinion entirely."37 Focusing on how Japan "is retentionist in its own way" should also create curiosity about the positive ...
For the US market, it remodeled the console to look more like a VCR – a popular machine at the time – and renamed it the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). The quality of the software did the rest, and the NES revived the US gaming industry. “Through several now-iconic games ...
Consisting of four prefectures – Toyama, Niigata, Ishikawa and Fukui – this region on Japan’s main Honshu island was a major hub during the Edo period (1603-1867). However in the century to follow, it fell under the shadow of its neighbors – Tokyo to the east and Osaka to the sout...