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LAYOFFS

Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jan 14, 2019
SpaceX¡¯s 10% workforce cut includes 577 layoffs at California HQ
Hours after launching its first rocket of the new year on Friday morning, Elon Musk¡¯s company told stunned employees that roughly 10 percent of SpaceX¡¯s workforce would be laid off. Workers were sent home early to await notification to their private email addresses about their fate.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 29, 2018
Trump asking agencies to look at GM subsidy cuts after carmaker announced layoffs, closures: source
President Donald Trump has asked federal agencies to look for ways to cut subsidies to General Motors Co. following the automaker¡¯s announcement that it plans to close factories and lay off thousands of workers, according to a source familiar with his instructions.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 28, 2018
Trump ¡®very cross¡¯ with GM boss over layoffs, Larry Kudlow says
Donald Trump¡¯s top economic adviser said he had conveyed to General Motors Co. Chief Executive Mary Barra the president¡¯s anger over her plans to close U.S. factories and lay off thousands of workers.
BUSINESS / Economy
Jan 9, 2015
U.S. jobless claims dip; 2014 layoffs lowest in 17 years
The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits fell last week and job cuts declined sharply in December, suggesting the labor market is tightening.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Jul 18, 2014
Microsoft to cut 18,000 jobs this year as it chops Nokia ranks; stock surges
Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella kicked off one of the largest layoffs in tech history Thursday, signaling he intended to shake up the aging PC industry titan, but leaving questions about how exactly he would transform it into a nimbler, Web-based rival to Apple Inc and Google Inc.
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Jan 26, 2013
No room for subtleties when laying off workers
Thanks to a feature that appeared on the front page of the Dec. 31 issue of the Asahi Shimbun, oidashi beya is the first topical neologism of 2013 if you don¡¯t count ¡°Abenomics.¡± It¡¯s not clear if the term, which translates as ¡°expulsion room,¡± was coined by the newspaper, but since then the blogosphere...
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New ¡®Katsu Curry Index¡¯ aims to show how weak the yen really is
A CoCo Ichibanya curry house in Tokyo.
Mexican man arrested over attempt to smuggle some 200 lizards into Japan
Mexican alligator lizards seized by Tokyo Customs from a Mexican man who attempted to smuggle them into Japan on Saturday through Haneda Airport
Gut bacteria may be behind many of Â鶹´«Ã½ colorectal cancer cases
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She is Russia¡¯s richest woman. Her business empire is going up in flames.
Tatyana Kim, the head and co-founder of Wildberries, speaks about Ukrainian drone attacks on the company's warehouses in the course of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, at an unidentified location, in this still image from a handout video released on July 31.
Forty-five meters down, a diver races to record a fleeting moment of WWII history
Kingo Wakasa photographs the kamikaze plane wing section he discovered at the USS Emmons wreck site.
Ikarigata closer to emulating older brother Fujinokawa than many think
The future Fujinokawa (third from left) and Ikarigata (right) compete against each other at ages 5 and 3, respectively.
Where do foreign residents in Japan want to die?
The Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery is one of the few cemeteries in Japan that allows burials, albeit with conditions for the deceased, including foreign nationality and permanent residency in Kanagawa Prefecture.
¡®Total whiplash¡¯: Foreign residents react to Â鶹´«Ã½ changing permanent residency rules
The entrance to the Tokyo Immigration Bureau in Minato Ward, Tokyo, in March. For some foreign residents of Japan, tightening measures for permanent residency have become one factor in a broader calculation over whether remaining in the country makes financial sense over the long term.
As Â鶹´«Ã½ concrete jungles sizzle, urban forestry offers an all-natural fix
People and birds find relief from the sun in Tokyo's Nakano Ward earlier this month. While experts agree that urban greening is crucial to mitigating the impact of climate change, trees are becoming even more scarce in Japanese cities.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo¡¯s Shinjuku Ward.
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