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The Japanese woman Tomiko Itooka, the oldest recorded person in the world, has been confirmed dead in Japan's Hyogo Prefecture. Itooka, 116, died in a nursing home in Ashiya on Friday. She was the world's living oldest person according to the Guinness World Records. She became the world's oldest person after Spain's Maria Branyas Morera who passed away at the age of 117 years old last year August. Ms Itooka […]
About 65 percent of Japanese companies have resolved to hiring foreign workers to cover for the labour shortages in the country, an official government survey has revealed. Respondent companies said foreign workers are employed with the expectation that they will perform as well or better than Japanese staff. Around 18.5 percent cited efforts to promote diversity, the labor ministry survey said. In the midst of Japan's graying and declining population, […]
