Speech Materals 324 Congestion expected after Toyota green car orders soar
Toyota has been swamped by orders for its first mass market hydrogen fuel-cell car, the company said Thursday, with dema...
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Speech Materals 323 E-Books Are Damaging Your Health: Why We Should All Start Reading Paper Books Again
Reading in and of itself has plenty of benefits for our minds: Studies have shown that reading over the course of a life...
Speech Materals 322 Genetically altered rice could solve Japan’s pollen allergy problem
Good news for all those who live in Japan and suffer from pollen allergies! Scientists have genetically modified rice in...
Speech Materals 321 America’s 9 biggest health issues
After an incredibly busy 2014, during which health stories like Ebola, new food nutrition label rules, and the debate ab...
Speech Materals 320 Is an entirely English-speaking village coming to Tokyo?
In preparation for the Olympics, Tokyo announced some of the “Long Term Visions” for English in preparation for the 2020...
Speech Materals 319 Good Sleeping Posture Helps Your Back
Most everyone knows that good posture is important, but good posture doesn't apply just to sitting and standing. The mus...
Speech Materals 318 The Question Your Doctor Should Be Asking You — but Isn’t
Almost half of adults surveyed drank at least one soda a day. The last time you went to the doctor, were you asked how m...
Speech Materals 317 AI, eel production and cancer prevention drugs in the cards
Japan expects to make commercially available the mass production of Japanese eels, an endangered species in the country,...
Speech Materals 316 The Secret to Learning a Foreign Language as an Adult
CEO David Bailey describes how he taught himself French in only 17 days. I’ve learned several foreign languages as an ad...
Speech Materals 315 10 Things to Know About Knee Arthritis
If you have knee osteoarthritis, you're in good company. About 9 million Americans struggle with knee arthritis, and it'...
Speech Materals 314 Japan in Depth: School Closures
Japan's leaders are in a race against time. The proportion of elderly is increasing faster than any other country and th...
Speech Materals 313 The Top 10 Google Searches of 2014
Nobody broke the internet in 2014, but the heartbreaking death of comic genius Robin Williams may have come close, as mo...
Speech Materals 312 The potential risks of free Wi-Fi
From Dec 1, the Tokyo Metro subway lines and Tokyo metropolitan government’s Bureau of Transportation began providing fr...
Speech Materals 311 Superbugs Could Kill 10 Million By 2050, Report Warns
Could be deadlier than cancer Rising rates of drug-resistant infections could lead to the death of some 10 million peopl...