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Commuters make their way through Shinagawa Station in Tokyo earlier this year. | REUTERS
Jiji Jul 10, 2021
The proportion of female company leaders in Japan may have marked a record high in April, a private-sector survey showed Friday, but it still underscored the large gender disparity in the workplace.
The share of female company presidents rose 0.1 percentage point from a year before to 8.1%, according to the Teikoku Databank Ltd. survey, which covered some 1.17 million companies nationwide.
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Sadayoshi Miyagi prays in front of the family altar dedicated to his younger brothers and other family members who were killed in the Battle of Okinawa, at his home in Naha on June 16. (Daizo Teramoto)
NAHA Sadayoshi Miyagi has continued searching for a specific rock in the southern part of the main Okinawa island where he left the body of his brother 76 years ago.
His 2-year-old brother, Teiso, is one of thousands of casualties of the 1945 Battle of Okinawa whose remains have yet to be recovered or identified.
Once every couple of years, Miyagi, an 87-year-old resident of Naha, resumes his mission.
Updated: 2:54 PM EDT Jun 29, 2021 Prized cherries grown in Aomori Prefecture in northern Japan fetched up to $270 apiece in the season s first auction.Thirty-nine boxes of the Juno Heart cherries were put up for auction.A box containing 15 pieces of the brand s finest type, called Aomori Heartbeat, got the highest price of almost $4,100 that s $1,300 more than last year s high.The winning bidder was a fruit wholesaler in Chiba, east of Tokyo.
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Prized cherries grown in Aomori Prefecture in northern Japan fetched up to $270 apiece in the season s first auction.
Thirty-nine boxes of the Juno Heart cherries were put up for auction.
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