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Why We Like People Who Ask Us for Favors
Time via Yahoo News· 3 weeks agoCredit - Getty Images Here’s a quick quiz. Person A does a favor for you. Person B asks you to do a favor for him. Who are you liable to like more? The...
Women’s participation in ‘naked festival’ a sign of how aging is forcing changes to male-centric...
CNN via Yahoo News· 2 months agoWith a history spanning more than 1,200 years, “hadaka matsuri,” or the naked festival, is Japanese...
Japan's firms offer biggest pay hikes in 30 years, wage growth broadens
Reuters via Yahoo Finance UK· 12 months agoTOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese firms offered the biggest pay hikes in three decades at this year's...
Xi-Biden meeting seen as putting rocky relations back on course, though main differences remain
Associated Press Finance via Yahoo Finance UK· 7 months agoPerhaps just shaking hands and sitting down together can be enough sometimes. At their four-hour...
Japanese former leader Abe honored at divisive state funeral
Associated Press via Yahoo News UK· 2 years agoJapan's assassinated hawkish former leader, Shinzo Abe, was given a rare state funeral Tuesday full...
Analysis-Inflation, labour crunch prodding Japan's smaller firms to raise pay
Reuters via Yahoo Finance UK· 1 year agoRising inflation and an intensifying labour crunch are prodding smaller local Japanese firms to...
Japan's lower house approves Ueda as next BOJ chief
Reuters via Yahoo Finance UK· 1 year agoJapan's lower house of parliament on Thursday approved the government's nominees for next central bank governor and deputy governors, signing off on a...
Japan Inc set to offer bumper pay hikes, paving way for BOJ stimulus exit
Reuters via Yahoo Finance UK· 4 months agoBig Japanese companies look set to formally offer hefty pay hikes at annual wage talks with unions...
Analysis-Japan's debt time bomb to complicate BOJ exit path
Reuters via Yahoo Finance UK· 1 year agoJapan's ticking debt time bomb will likely complicate the next central bank governor's task of...
Japan's base salaries jump most since 1995, puts BOJ policy into view
Reuters via Yahoo Finance UK· 12 months agoTOKYO (Reuters) -Japan's nominal base salary grew at the fastest pace in 28 years in May, government...