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 ...
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Speech Materals 
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...