Children study English on June 11 at a daytime nursery within Pasona Group Inc.’s office in Awaji, Hyogo Prefecture. (Junichi Miyagawa)
Major staffing agency Pasona Group Inc. is offering 100 jobs to single parents with children of elementary school age or younger at its new headquarters on Awajishima island in Hyogo Prefecture.
The company decided to expand its program that started in August last year to employ single mothers who are struggling to find jobs amid the COVID-19 crisis. Eight single mothers have joined Pasona under that program as of mid-June.
The expanded program, which will offer permanent positions and contract work regardless of age and gender, is also aimed at getting more people to relocate to Awajishima.
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Not all historic discoveries are necessarily given dignified names.
A female Australopithecus afarensis from 3.2 million years ago was nicknamed Lucy after the Beatles’ “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds,” which was playing when her fossil skeleton was discovered in Ethiopia in 1974.
Some creative liberty is taken with Latin scientific names, too.
According to Stephen B. Heard’s “Charles Darwin’s Barnacle and David Bowie’s Spider: How Scientific Names Celebrate Adventurers, Heroes, and Even a Few Scoundrels,” a huntsman spider was named Heteropoda davidbowie after rock star David Bowie (1947-2016).
Skinny and long-legged, the arachnid is said to resemble Bowie with his orange hair.
Fossils discovered in a stratum dating to the late Cretaceous Period, or about 72 million years ago, on the Awajishima island in Hyogo Prefecture were found to be a new species of dinosaur, now named Yamatosaurus izanagii. (The Asahi Shimbun)
A new dinosaur species was discovered on Awajishima island in Hyogo Prefecture, the place where the nation of Japan was born according to myth.
A team led by Yoshitsugu Kobayashi, a professor of Hokkaido University, announced the finding in the British science journal Scientific Reports on April 27.
Shingo Kishimoto, a 72-year-old amateur fossil collector from Himeji city, also in Hyogo Prefecture, found the fossils of the new species, including teeth and neck bones, in a stratum dating to the late Cretaceous Period, or about 72 million years ago, in the city of Sumoto on the island in 2004.
The Ghibli Museum, the museum dedicated to the anime of
Studio Ghibli, announced on Saturday it will temporarily close from April 25 to May 11 due to the third state of emergency against the new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Tokyo, among other prefectures. The museum is offering refunds for people who cannot use their pre-ordered April tickets. (The museum s May tickets were not yet put on sale.) The museum closed from February 25 to July of last year due to the first state of emergency.
The Kyoto International Manga Museum will close from April 25 to May 11, but plans to reopen on May 13, barring an extension to the state of emergency. (It would be closed on Wednesday, May 12 since it is not open on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.)