Japanese grandparents taking leave to care of grandchildren
JAPAN — Some Japanese companies have introduced special leave systems for employees so they can take care of their grandchildren.
November 8, 2015
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JAPAN — Some Japanese companies have introduced special leave systems for employees so they can take care of their grandchildren.
JAPAN — At RunGirl Night, a running event held in Tokyo in September, a 35-year-old company employee prepared for the run wearing lipstick, foundation and eye shadow. “I would feel extremely self-conscious if I was around so many other people without makeup on. After crossing the finish line, I want to look good in group photos, too,” she said.
Flashing a wide smile, newly crowned storytelling champion Edward Batac of the School of St. Anthony dedicated his win to his school, his parents and his grandmother, a cancer survivor.
When he was still knee-high to a grasshopper, Pope Francis never dreamed of becoming the leader of the world’s 1.3 billion Roman Catholics. His secret desire? To be a butcher.
WHEN you commit a crime of fashion, things might blow up even if you’re the pulis. That could be the case of Fashion Pulis, if talks are true.
Just this year, Freddie Alquiros, executive committee chair of Baguio’s annual Panagbenga Flower Festival and former COO of Camp John Hay, has gone on two cruises.
When my husband and I separated after 15 years of marriage and two children, I vowed never to have anything to do with him again.
Every scuba-diver will tell you that gearing up is the most tedious part of the sport—donning several pounds of lead weights, a steel tank, regulators, a buoyancy compensator, a wetsuit that’s very hot and tight on land. And then, you hit the water—and you fall in love all over again.
YOUR mantra for the week: “No matter what, I keep smiling and keep going.”
On the morning of Sept. 23, 1972, a driver from Graphic magazine, headed by Don Antonio Araneta, called to inform me that our boss, Luis (Morik) Mauricio, had been arrested and that the building had been padlocked. Martial law had been declared, and staffers more radical than I were being hunted down. The military had swung into action.
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