110 applicants for 1060 jobs. Welfare job meeting in Kagawa

On January 24th, companies' joint information session "Welfare Job Support Fair" was held in Takamatsu, Kagawa targeting to recruit health care and welfare field students and workers. 75 employer offered 1,060 jobs, however 110 people attended the session.
The number of job offers at the prefecture's Social Welfare Human Resource Center has increased by 70 percent from 2009 while the number of applicants has increased only 10 percent in the same term.


介護の人手不足深刻　１０６０人募集も来場１１０人…香川　―yomiDr./ヨミドクター
http://www.yomidr.yomiuri.co.jp/page.jsp?id=71705


Job cuts of foreign banks in Japan in 2011

Over 2.12M people on welfare

Japan 101st on WEF "The Global Gender Gap Report"

Annual income of Japanese keeps dropping

Amazon.co.jp 2012 Best Seller Anime DVD/BD Ranking

Karen and Tsukihi from "Nisemonogatari"

Amazon.co.jp's top ten best-selling anime DVDs and Blu-rays in the term from 12/1/2011 to 11/30/2012. The company names listed below each title is the anime production.

Amazon.co.jp 2012 Best Seller Adult PC Game Ranking

TYPE-MOON heroines

Amazon.co.jp revealed "Best of 2012" rankings. Here are the top ten best selling adult PC games on the website between 12/1/2011 and 11/30/2012.
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Amazon.co.jp 2011 Best Seller Adult PC Game Ranking

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Amazon.co.jp's "Best of 2011" rankings, the top ten best selling adult PC games on the website between 12/1/2010 and 11/31/2011.
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[2012 Winter] Comic Market 83, cosplayers

Tokyo Big Sight

Comic Market 83(C83), the largest manga, anime, game, music and subculture event in the world held at Tokyo Big Sight from December 29th to 31st attracted 550,000 fans marking the largest as the winter event.

The best heroine in Japanese anime history -NHK Shibuya Animeland

Madoka and Homura from "Puella Magi Madoka Magica"

As a result of NHK radio program "Shibuya Animeland" broadcasted on January 2nd, Haruka Amami of "The Idolm@ster" was chosen for the best anime heroine in approximately fifty years of Japanese anime history.
The program elected ten nominees through the primary election, the internet vote, then during its broadcast conducted final vote on the internet.