Speech Materals 239 Japan’s newest holiday Mountain Day gets approval from Lower House The Lower House of the Diet has passed an amendment to the nation’s Holiday Act which includes a new public holiday, Mou... 03.05.2014 Speech Materals
Speech Materals 238 Now You See Me: How To See Without Glasses Coke bottle eyeglasses and delicate contact lenses both accomplish the same task: They help you see. But what if you mis... 03.05.2014 Speech Materals
Speech Materals 237 Hospitals: UK vs Japan – Length of stay, language, birth, kids and pain relief A stint in hospital anywhere can cause anxiety, but even more so when it occurs in an unfamiliar country. Non-Japanese p... 03.05.2014 Speech Materals
Speech Materals 236 Honda launches energy-efficient ‘Smart Home’ concept Honda has launched the Honda Smart Home US, a sustainable housing project exploring the concept of zero net energy livin... 03.05.2014 Speech Materals
Speech Materals 235 A Close-up Look at Acupuncture for Pain A growing number of Americans would prefer to stop popping pills and avoid going under the knife to treat a bum knee, ac... 03.05.2014 Speech Materals
Speech Materals 234 Tricks to Improve Your Memory Blanking on names? Left your iPhone in a cab? There's no way around the fact that memory erodes as we get older. The hip... 30.04.2014 Speech Materals
Speech Materals 233 The Health and Work Benefits of Plants Did you know that having plants in your office or home will help increase your productivity, concentration and health? S... 30.04.2014 Speech Materals
Speech Materals 232 Mistakes managers need to avoid when dealing with newly hired employees TOKYO ? This past week, fresh-faced newcomers started working at companies throughout Japan. According to two articles i... 30.04.2014 Speech Materals
Speech Materals 231 Japan’s Biggest Crime Syndicate Has Its Own Website In an effort to recruit new members and regain some mystique, the Yamaguchi- gumi has launched a website that shows just... 30.04.2014 Speech Materals
Speech Materals 230 Are Microapartments the Way of the Future? If you live in a big city then you don’t have to be told that space is limited and that real estate prices are extortion... 30.04.2014 Speech Materals
Speech Materals 229 Unhealthy Habits that Are as Bad as Smoking You don't smoke. You live a generally healthy life, so you're in the clear as far as unhealthy habits are concerned, rig... 14.04.2014 Speech Materals
Speech Materals 228 The joy of living with less If you’ve ever fantasised about selling everything you own and paring down your possessions to the bare essentials, you’... 14.04.2014 Speech Materals
Speech Materals 227 Record-high 21,089 stalker cases reported in 2013 The number of stalking cases reported to police in 2013 exceeded 20,000 for the first time, reaching a record high 21,08... 14.04.2014 Speech Materals
Speech Materals 226 Lower back pain responsible for a third of work-related disability Lower back pain linked to workplace factors accounts for a third of all work-related disability worldwide, according to ... 14.04.2014 Speech Materals
Speech Materals 225 Are Mondays Really That Bad? Bad stuff does consistently happen on Mondays. Stock market returns are lower, suicides are higher and more people call ... 14.04.2014 Speech Materals
Speech Materals 224 World’s most expensive city is … Move over Tokyo. Singapore has dethroned the Japanese capital to become the world's most expensive city in 2014, accordi... 22.03.2014 Speech Materals
Speech Materals 223 8 Ways To Boost Productivity And Break Out Of A Lazy Slump, Backed By Science The start of the workweek could only mean one thing ? the commencement of the countdown to 5 p.m. on Friday. In the days... 22.03.2014 Speech Materals
Speech Materals 222 Robots will be smarter than us all by 2029, warns AI expert Ray Kurzweil By 2029, computers will be able to understand our language, learn from experience and outsmart even the most intelligent... 22.03.2014 Speech Materals
Speech Materals 221 Read a novel in 80 minutes? There’s an app for that If you've always wanted to read War and Peace, but thought you'd need to be some sort of superhero speedreader to make i... 22.03.2014 Speech Materals
Speech Materals 220 Is the ‘5 second rule’ for picking up dropped food safe? The ‘five second rule’ suggests that food dropped on the ground is still safe to eat if it is picked up after five secon... 22.03.2014 Speech Materals
Speech Materals 219 How 19 Tech Titans Target Healthcare Healthcare accounts for about 10 percent of global GDP, according to the World Bank. In the United States, where spendin... 22.03.2014 Speech Materals
Speech Materals 218 Factory meat, cruel and bad for us Here's a thought to chew on: America's most intractable problems all double back to our collective mistreatment of anima... 22.03.2014 Speech Materals
Speech Materals 217 Cellphone Radiation: 5 Ways To Protect Yourself From Your Phone’s Potentially Harmful Emissions Out of the seven billion people in this world, approximately six billion are avid cellphone users. Mobile phones have co... 22.03.2014 Speech Materals
Speech Materals 216 A Japanese Superhero Is Apparently Destroying Malaysia Authorities in the country have banned an Ultraman comic book for "subverting public security" and undermining morals be... 22.03.2014 Speech Materals
Speech Materals 215 6 common renter mistakes In the stress of hunting for that perfect apartment, it can be easy to slip up and get saddled with an onerous lease. Do... 22.03.2014 Speech Materals
Speech Materals 214 Would YOU eat sausages made from BABY POO? Spanish scientists say they boost good gut bacteria Bacteria found in probiotics - Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium - are also found in abundance in baby poo. Spanish rese... 01.03.2014 Speech Materals
Speech Materals 213 The Right Way to Motivate Employees It’s one thing for a CEO to be passionate and enthusiastic, but there’s a line of professionalism that must always be ma... 01.03.2014 Speech Materals
Speech Materals 212 Tobacco sale ban for US campus shops One of the world's top universities is taking a smoking ban a step further this week, as Stanford University prohibits t... 01.03.2014 Speech Materals
Speech Materals 211 Technology may ‘transform’ healthcare treatments In the future, people may be able to do medical check-ups from home instead of going to the hospital. Smartphones and ev... 01.03.2014 Speech Materals
Speech Materals 210 Remembering Japan’s kamikaze pilots Japan hopes to immortalize its kamikaze pilots - a squad of young men who crashed their aircraft into Allied ships in Wo... 01.03.2014 Speech Materals
Speech Materals 209 Habits of Happy People It pays to have a sunny disposition. Optimistic people have been shown to have healthier hearts, better stress-managemen... 01.03.2014 Speech Materals
Speech Materals 208 French police introduce drive-through police stations for people to report crime For the residents of a small French town close to the Mediterranean reporting a crime will soon be as easy as picking up... 01.03.2014 Speech Materals
Speech Materals 207 Chinese cockroach farmers are making a bundle selling pulverized bugs for $89 per lb. It turns out China has a booming trade in cockroaches that can earn as much as 1200 yuan per kilogram, or $89 per pound.... 01.03.2014 Speech Materals
Speech Materals 206 Bhutan to cut fossil fuel imports 70%, embrace electric cars The small, mountainous nation of Bhutan is getting in on the act. The same country that has made headlines for measuring... 01.03.2014 Speech Materals
Speech Materals 205 Air Turbulence: How Dangerous Is It? Like long security lines and bad coffee, air turbulence is one of the headaches travellers face when they decide to boar... 01.03.2014 Speech Materals
Speech Materals 204 6 Ways to Humidify Your Home (Without a Humidifier!) Are your clothes clingy in all the wrong ways this winter? Are allergies worse than usual? Kids taking far too much plea... 15.02.2014 Speech Materals
Speech Materals 203 Genetically-modified purple tomatoes heading for shops The prospect of genetically modified purple tomatoes reaching the shelves has come a step closer. Their dark pigment is ... 15.02.2014 Speech Materals
Speech Materals 202 Gastronomic voyeurism is the latest craze in South Kore WATCHING someone eat food via webcam is the latest craze in South Korea. A report by Reuters suggests this gastronomic v... 15.02.2014 Speech Materals
Speech Materals 201 Time’s up for siestas, delayed meetings and late nights, Spaniards told in effort to make them work better Their three-hour lunch breaks have long been the envy of workers in neighbouring countries, their business meetings ofte... 14.02.2014 Speech Materals
Speech Materals 200 7-Eleven looks to U.S. to inspire online revolution The 81-year-old Japanese executive who built 7-Eleven into the world’s biggest convenience store chain has a new mission... 14.02.2014 Speech Materals
Speech Materals 199 The Terrible Effects of Misdiagnoses It is beyond troubling to know that misdiagnoses are still such a common threat, despite our latest medical advances. It... 14.02.2014 Speech Materals
Speech Materals 198 Where is the world’s most corrupt nation? Afghanistan, North Korea and Somalia are seen as the most corrupt nations in the world, according to Transparency Intern... 14.02.2014 Speech Materals
Speech Materals 197 Scientists use lightning bolt to charge mobile phone Some 200 years after Mary Shelley used lightning to breathe life into Frankenstein's monster, scientists have copied her... 14.02.2014 Speech Materals
Speech Materals 196 China to ease one-child policy, abolish labor camps, report says China announced it will relax its decades-long one-child policy and abolish labor camps in an effort to improve human ri... 14.02.2014 Speech Materals
Speech Materals 195 NY Mayor Bill de Blasio mocked over eating a pizza New York Mayor Bill de Blasio may have bitten off more than he could chew at a photo opportunity in a pizza restaurant. ... 14.02.2014 Speech Materals
Speech Materals 194 Amazon says drone deliveries are the future In the not-too-distant future, Amazon deliveries could come by air directly to your doorstep. The online mega-retailer u... 14.02.2014 Speech Materals
Speech Materals 193 Battling Our Sedentary Lifestyle Researchers Experiment With Techniques That May Lessen Sitting Time During Work We’re now hearing about the fatal risks ... 14.02.2014 Speech Materals
Speech Materals 192 Brain function ‘boosted for days after reading a novel’ Reading a gripping novel causes biological changes in the brain which last for days as the mind is transported into the ... 14.02.2014 Speech Materals
Speech Materals 191 Saudi women’s new campaign to end driving ban Women who want the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to lift a de facto ban that prohibits them from driving have launched an onli... 14.02.2014 Speech Materals
Speech Materals 190 Wind Turbine Syndrome Blamed for Mysterious Symptoms in Cape Cod Town Sue Hobart, a bridal florist from Massachusetts, couldn't understand why she suddenly developed headaches, ringing in he... 14.02.2014 Speech Materals