Speech Materals 253 Over 10,000 dementia sufferers went missing in 2013
More than 10,000 people suffering from dementia went missing for various periods of time in 2013, the National Police Ag...
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Speech Materals 252 Good Posture When Sitting Prevents Back Problems And Crippling ‘Sitting Disease’
For those of us who are deskbound at work, we spend at least eight hours each day planted firmly in our office chairs. D...
Speech Materals 251 Android and Windows to get ‘kill switch’
Google and Microsoft will add a "kill-switch" feature to their Android and Windows phone operating systems. The feature ...
Speech Materals 250 10 things Japan does better than anywhere else
Advertising agency Dentsu recently released the results of its annual Japan Brand Survey, in which it asks people from a...
Speech Materals 249 The Google Self-Driving Car
On May 27, the public got a chance to see and try out the prototype. What was it like, riding in the Google self-driving...
Speech Materals 248 Abe inspects Singapore casinos
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe toured Singapore’s two gaming resorts on Friday as his government considers legalisin...
Speech Materals 247 The world’s strangest work laws
A law that requires children to help with household chores and respect their parents? In Spain, it could become reality....
Speech Materals 246 Why Levi’s CEO Says to Stop Washing Your Jeans
If you feel the need to throw your jeans into the washing machine after every wear, you may be doing it all wrong. Accor...
Speech Materals 245 This European City Wants To Eliminate Cars by 2034
With the onset of hybrid technologies, automakers are making it possible for daily drivers to use less and less fuel, bu...
Speech Materals 244 Japan’s working poor left behind by Abenomics
Last Christmas Eve, Ririko Saito and her 11-year-old daughter gathered some plastic bottles, pots and a kettle and made ...
Speech Materals 243 Health Lessons From Around the World
From antioxidant-stuffed spices to midday Zs, every country has its own unique brand of staying healthy, happy, and fit....
Speech Materals 242 Can Powerful Emotions Kill You?
Though feelings are a powerful force and an inescapable part of life, they can have a pretty significant effect on your ...
Speech Materals 241 Giant 3D printer creates 10 full-sized houses in a DAY
It is said that a man’s home is his castle - but he could soon be presiding over a 3D-printed bungalow. A company in Chi...
Speech Materals 240 Why fast food workers need be be paid more
More than 80 people from 26 countries met in New York on May 5 and 6, under the banner of the global trade union IUF, in...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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’...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...