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BINZHOU, CHINA - OCTOBER 23, 2025 - A female employee is processing a textile product order in a factory production workshop, Binzhou City, Shandong Province, China on October 23, 2025.

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China Manufacturing Industry

BINZHOU, CHINA - OCTOBER 23, 2025 - A female employee is processing a textile product order in a factory production workshop, Binzhou City, Shandong Province, China on October 23, 2025.

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China Manufacturing Industry

BINZHOU, CHINA - OCTOBER 23, 2025 - A female employee is processing a textile product order in a factory production workshop, Binzhou City, Shandong Province, China on October 23, 2025.

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China Manufacturing Industry

BINZHOU, CHINA - OCTOBER 23, 2025 - A female employee is processing a textile product order in a factory production workshop, Binzhou City, Shandong Province, China on October 23, 2025.

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China Manufacturing Industry

BINZHOU, CHINA - OCTOBER 23, 2025 - A female employee is processing a textile product order in a factory production workshop, Binzhou City, Shandong Province, China on October 23, 2025.

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China Manufacturing Industry

BINZHOU, CHINA - OCTOBER 23, 2025 - A female employee is processing a textile product order in a factory production workshop, Binzhou City, Shandong Province, China on October 23, 2025.

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China Manufacturing Industry

BINZHOU, CHINA - OCTOBER 23, 2025 - A female employee is processing a textile product order in a factory production workshop, Binzhou City, Shandong Province, China on October 23, 2025.

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China Manufacturing Industry

BINZHOU, CHINA - OCTOBER 23, 2025 - A female employee is processing a textile product order in a factory production workshop, Binzhou City, Shandong Province, China on October 23, 2025.

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China Manufacturing Industry

BINZHOU, CHINA - OCTOBER 23, 2025 - A female employee is processing a textile product order in a factory production workshop, Binzhou City, Shandong Province, China on October 23, 2025.

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China Manufacturing Industry

BINZHOU, CHINA - OCTOBER 23, 2025 - A female employee is processing a textile product order in a factory production workshop, Binzhou City, Shandong Province, China on October 23, 2025.

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China Manufacturing Industry

BINZHOU, CHINA - OCTOBER 23, 2025 - A female employee is processing a textile product order in a factory production workshop, Binzhou City, Shandong Province, China on October 23, 2025.

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2 nursing home residents killed near Tokyo

Police officers block a street near a nursing home in Tsurugashima, Saitama Prefecture, near Tokyo, on Oct. 15, 2025, after two female residents were found bleeding and later pronounced dead. Police took a former male employee of the facility into custody later in the day.

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2 nursing home residents killed near Tokyo

Police officers block a street near a nursing home in Tsurugashima, Saitama Prefecture, near Tokyo, on Oct. 15, 2025, after two female residents were found bleeding and later pronounced dead. Police took a former male employee of the facility into custody later in the day.

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2 nursing home residents killed near Tokyo

Police officers search for clues in the vicinity of a nursing home in Tsurugashima, Saitama Prefecture, near Tokyo, on Oct. 15, 2025, after two female residents were found bleeding and later pronounced dead. Police took a former male employee of the facility into custody later in the day.

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2 nursing home residents killed near Tokyo

Police officers search for clues in the vicinity of a nursing home in Tsurugashima, Saitama Prefecture, near Tokyo, on Oct. 15, 2025, after two female residents were found bleeding and later pronounced dead. Police took a former male employee of the facility into custody later in the day.

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Shareholders meeting for Fuji Media Holdings

TOKYO, Japan, June 25 Kyodo - People head to the venue of a general shareholders meeting for Fuji Media Holdings Inc. in Tokyo on June 25, 2025, following a sexual misconduct scandal involving popular TV host Masahiro Nakai and a female employee at a television network subsidiary. (Kyodo)

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Shareholders meeting for Fuji Media Holdings

Entrepreneur Takafumi Horie heads to the venue of a general shareholders meeting for Fuji Media Holdings Inc. in Tokyo on June 25, 2025, following a sexual misconduct scandal involving popular TV host Masahiro Nakai and a female employee at a television network subsidiary.

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Shareholders meeting for Fuji Media Holdings

Entrepreneur Takafumi Horie heads to the venue of a general shareholders meeting for Fuji Media Holdings Inc. in Tokyo on June 25, 2025, following a sexual misconduct scandal involving popular TV host Masahiro Nakai and a female employee at a television network subsidiary.

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Shareholders meeting for Fuji Media Holdings

People form a line at the venue of a general shareholders meeting for Fuji Media Holdings Inc. in Tokyo on June 25, 2025, following a sexual misconduct scandal involving popular TV host Masahiro Nakai and a female employee at a television network subsidiary.

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Shareholders meeting for Fuji Media Holdings

People head to the venue of a general shareholders meeting for Fuji Media Holdings Inc. in Tokyo on June 25, 2025, following a sexual misconduct scandal involving popular TV host Masahiro Nakai and a female employee at a television network subsidiary.

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Woman crane operator in China's Shanghai sees no career ceiling

STORY: Woman crane operator in China's Shanghai sees no career ceiling DATELINE: March 10, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:19 LOCATION: SHANGHAI, China CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the woman crane operator working 2. various of the construction site 3. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): LI MANMAN, Female crane operator 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): LI MANMAN, Female crane operator STORYLINE: A 35-year-old woman who works as a tower crane operator in east China's megacity Shanghai says there's no ceiling but only a blue sky above her head, showing better gender equality in her career. Li Manman, the mother of three, is an employee with China Construction Third Engineering Bureau Co., Ltd. She has participated in eight construction projects over the past 15 years. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): LI MANMAN, Female crane operator "I need to climb 101 meters to the tower crane cab every workday. My workplace is the highest and the loneliest on the construction site. I only talk to signalmen during work. I can handle materials no mor

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Beer house in Pyongyang

BEIJING, China - A female employee pours draft beer into a mug at the Mansugyo Soft Drink Restaurant in Pyongyang in February 2013. The "standing-style" beer house has been gaining popularity in the North Korean capital, where customers drop by after work to enjoy draft beer straight from the brewery.

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2 women break all-male grip in Shimane prefectural assembly

MATSUE, Japan - Keiko Shiraishi (57), a former employee of the Shimane prefectural government, raises her arms in victory after winning a seat in the prefectural assembly election on April 8, breaking the all-male grip in the prefectural legislature for the first time in four years. The election also produced a second female assembly member, Tomoko Sumi, 52, a former Matsue city employee.

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Matsushita shuts 2 China plants due to SARS

BEIJING, China - A female employee leaves Beijing Matsushita Color CRT Co. (BMCC), a local unit of Japan's Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., on May 20. Matsushita has been shut the plant down, aalong with Beijing Matsushita Lighting Co. (BMLC), since May 17 after five local workers at the plants were confirmed infected with severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).

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Employee in serious condition after bitten by lioness

UTSUNOMIYA, Japan - This picture shows an aerial view of Nasu Safari Park in Nasu, Tochigi Prefecture. Yasuki Uchiyama, a 21-year-old male employee was seriously injured on Dec. 25 after being mauled by a 14-year-old lioness. Uchiyama and a female zoo worker were cleaning a pen for the lions when the attack occurred. The lion cage is located on the right side of the picture in the center.

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Parcel explodes at law office in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows a building in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward where a parcel delivered to a law office on the fifth floor exploded when opened by a female employee on June 12. The 29-year-old employee and a 60-year-old attorney sustained minor injuries in the explosion.

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Ex-Hawks Town chief arrested for allegedly molesting woman

TOKYO, Japan - Police arrested Takeshi Kotsuka (file photo), former president of Hawks Town Co., which operates the Fukuoka Dome baseball stadium and an adjacent hotel, Oct. 25 on suspicion of molesting a female employee of the company. (Kyodo)

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Welcome ceremony for Seven & i Holdings' new recruits

Asumi Kubo, a female employee of Seven & i Holdings Co., says vows on behalf of all new recruits for 16 group companies to Chairman and CEO Toshifumi Suzuki (front) at a welcome ceremony attended by around 1,300 employees at a hotel in Tokyo on March 19, 2015, ahead of similar ceremonies by other major Japanese firms. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Merkel visits Daimler unit in Japan to see trucks for women

German Chancellor Angela Merkel (R) shakes hands with an employee of Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corp., a subsidiary of German Daimler AG, at a Mitsubishi Fuso plant in Kawasaki, near Tokyo on March 10, 2015, during her visit to observe the assembly of a small hybrid truck developed for female drivers. Merkel was making her first visit to Japan in seven years. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Merkel visits Daimler unit in Japan to see trucks for women

German Chancellor Angela Merkel (C) is briefed on a small hybrid truck developed for female drivers by an employee (L) of Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corp., a subsidiary of German Daimler AG, at a Mitsubishi Fuso plant in Kawasaki, near Tokyo on March 10, 2015. Merkel was making her first visit to Japan in seven years. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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More people apply for labor inspector job after Dentsu incident

Photo taken June 11, 2017 in Tokyo shows people taking an exam for posts as labor-standard inspectors. Applications have been rising in the wake of the death of a young female employee of the nation's top ad agency after working excessive overtime. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Dentsu president to resign over employee suicide

Tadashi Ishii, president of advertising giant Dentsu Inc., bows in apology at a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 28, 2016. Ishii said he will step down in January 2017 to take responsibility for an alleged overwork-related suicide of a 24-year-old female employee. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Probe into overwork at Dentsu after employee suicide

Undated photo shows Dentsu Inc.'s head office in Tokyo. Japan's labor authorities inspected four subsidiaries of the advertising giant on Oct. 18, 2016, following the suicide of a 24-year-old female employee in December 2015 due to overwork. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-railman named new head of all-female Takarazuka Revue troupe

Tomotsugu Ogawa, new president of the Takarazuka Revue troupe, speaks in an interview with Kyodo News on April 16, 2015, looking ahead to the next 100 years following the centenary last year of the all-female company's establishment. Ogawa, a former employee of Hankyu Corp., once underwent on-the-job training as a motorman for the private railway operator. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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2 women break all-male grip in Shimane prefectural assembly

MATSUE, Japan - Keiko Shiraishi (57), a former employee of the Shimane prefectural government, raises her arms in victory after winning a seat in the prefectural assembly election on April 8, breaking the all-male grip in the prefectural legislature for the first time in four years. The election also produced a second female assembly member, Tomoko Sumi, 52, a former Matsue city employee. (Kyodo)

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Matsushita shuts 2 China plants due to SARS

BEIJING, China - A female employee leaves Beijing Matsushita Color CRT Co. (BMCC), a local unit of Japan's Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., on May 20. Matsushita has been shut the plant down, aalong with Beijing Matsushita Lighting Co. (BMLC), since May 17 after five local workers at the plants were confirmed infected with severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). (Kyodo)

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International Women's Day

A female employee checks steel quality at Xuansteel Company of Hesang Group in Zhangjiakou, north China's Hebei Province, March 8, 2021. It was the International Women's Day.

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International Women's Day

A female employee checks steel quality at Xuansteel Company of Hesang Group in Zhangjiakou, north China's Hebei Province, March 8, 2021. It was the International Women's Day.

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International Women's Day

A female employee checks steel quality at Xuansteel Company of Hesang Group in Zhangjiakou, north China's Hebei Province, March 8, 2021. It was the International Women's Day.

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Dentsu president to resign over employee suicide

Tadashi Ishii, president of advertising giant Dentsu Inc., bows in apology at a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 28, 2016. Ishii said he will step down in January 2017 to take responsibility for an alleged overwork-related suicide of a 24-year-old female employee. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Dentsu president to resign over employee suicide

Tadashi Ishii, president of advertising giant Dentsu Inc., speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 28, 2016. Ishii said he will step down in January 2017 to take responsibility for an alleged overwork-related suicide of a 24-year-old female employee. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Dentsu raided on suspicion of violating labor law

Japan's labor authorities raid the headquarters of Dentsu Inc. in Tokyo on Nov. 7, 2016, on suspicion it forced employees to work illegally long hours. The advertising giant has been under investigation after a 24-year-old female employee committed suicide in December 2015 due to overwork. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Dentsu raided on suspicion of violating labor law

Japan's labor authorities raid the headquarters of Dentsu Inc. in Tokyo on Nov. 7, 2016, on suspicion it forced employees to work illegally long hours. The advertising giant has been under investigation after a 24-year-old female employee committed suicide in December 2015 due to overwork. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Dentsu raided on suspicion of violating labor law

Japan's labor authorities raid the headquarters of Dentsu Inc. in Tokyo on Nov. 7, 2016, on suspicion it forced employees to work illegally long hours. The advertising giant has been under investigation after a 24-year-old female employee committed suicide in December 2015 due to overwork. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Dentsu subsidiaries probed by labor authority after worker's suicide

The building housing Dentsu East Japan Inc., one of the subsidiaries of advertising giant Dentsu Inc., is seen in a photo taken Oct. 18, 2016, in Tokyo. The labor ministry said the same day it has added five Dentsu subsidiaries to the list of its on-site inspections in the wake of the suicide of a 24-year-old female employee deemed to be from overwork. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Advertising giant Dentsu probed by labor bureau after employee suicide

Officials from the Tokyo Labor Bureau, a regional office of the labor ministry, enter the headquarters of Japanese advertising giant Dentsu Inc. in Tokyo to conduct an on-site inspection on Oct. 14, 2016. The labor authorities will investigate how the company is managing its employees' working hours, after a 24-year-old female employee committed suicide in 2015 deemed to be caused by overwork. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Advertising giant Dentsu probed by labor bureau after employee suicide

Officials from the Tokyo Labor Bureau, a regional office of the labor ministry, enter the headquarters of Japanese advertising giant Dentsu Inc. in Tokyo to conduct an on-site inspection on Oct. 14, 2016. The labor authorities will investigate how the company is managing its employees' working hours, after a 24-year-old female employee committed suicide in 2015 deemed to be caused by overwork. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Employee in serious condition after bitten by lioness

UTSUNOMIYA, Japan - This picture shows an aerial view of Nasu Safari Park in Nasu, Tochigi Prefecture. Yasuki Uchiyama, a 21-year-old male employee was seriously injured on Dec. 25 after being mauled by a 14-year-old lioness. Uchiyama and a female zoo worker were cleaning a pen for the lions when the attack occurred. The lion cage is located on the right side of the picture in the center.

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Parcel explodes at law office in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows a building in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward where a parcel delivered to a law office on the fifth floor exploded when opened by a female employee on June 12. The 29-year-old employee and a 60-year-old attorney sustained minor injuries in the explosion.

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2 nursing home residents killed near Tokyo

2 nursing home residents killed near Tokyo

2 nursing home residents killed near Tokyo

2 nursing home residents killed near Tokyo

Shareholders meeting for Fuji Media Holdings

Shareholders meeting for Fuji Media Holdings

Shareholders meeting for Fuji Media Holdings

Shareholders meeting for Fuji Media Holdings

Shareholders meeting for Fuji Media Holdings

Woman crane operator in China's Shanghai sees no career ceiling

Beer house in Pyongyang

2 women break all-male grip in Shimane prefectural assembly

Matsushita shuts 2 China plants due to SARS

Employee in serious condition after bitten by lioness

Parcel explodes at law office in Tokyo

Ex-Hawks Town chief arrested for allegedly molesting woman

Welcome ceremony for Seven &amp; i Holdings' new recruits

Merkel visits Daimler unit in Japan to see trucks for women

Merkel visits Daimler unit in Japan to see trucks for women

More people apply for labor inspector job after Dentsu incident

Dentsu president to resign over employee suicide

Probe into overwork at Dentsu after employee suicide

Ex-railman named new head of all-female Takarazuka Revue troupe

2 women break all-male grip in Shimane prefectural assembly

Matsushita shuts 2 China plants due to SARS

International Women's Day

International Women's Day

International Women's Day

Dentsu president to resign over employee suicide

Dentsu president to resign over employee suicide

Dentsu raided on suspicion of violating labor law

Dentsu raided on suspicion of violating labor law

Dentsu raided on suspicion of violating labor law

Dentsu subsidiaries probed by labor authority after worker's suicide

Advertising giant Dentsu probed by labor bureau after employee suicide

Advertising giant Dentsu probed by labor bureau after employee suicide

Employee in serious condition after bitten by lioness

Parcel explodes at law office in Tokyo

Welcome ceremony for Seven & i Holdings' new recruits