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Title: I see Blader is on chatauqua in Japan Post by: Fuzzy on January 26, 2009, 07:29:13 AM And apparently he sits on the Board at Canon.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/01/26/canon.babies/index.html Quote Workers urged: Go home and multiply TOKYO, Japan (CNN) -- Even before one reaches the front door of Canon's headquarters in Tokyo, one can sense the virtual stampede of employees pouring out of the building exactly at 5:30 p.m. In a country where 12-hour workdays are common, the electronics giant has taken to letting its employees leave early twice a week for a rather unusual reason: to encourage them to have more babies. "Canon has a very strong birth planning program," says the company's spokesman Hiroshi Yoshinaga. "Sending workers home early to be with their families is a part of it." Japan in the midst of an unprecedented recession, so corporations are being asked to work toward fixing another major problem: the country's low birthrate. Title: Re: I see Blader is on chatauqua in Japan Post by: Blader on January 26, 2009, 09:35:29 AM Canon is one of our
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