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Court orders McDonald's to pay overtime to manager

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroshi Takano (R), manager of a McDonald's outlet in the city of Kumagaya City, Saitama Prefecutre, and his wife Kuniko attend a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 28 after the Tokyo District Court ordered McDonald's Co. (Japan) Ltd. to pay some 7.5 million yen in overtime and compensation to him. The court acknowledged his claim that while McDonald's had appointed him to a managerial post, he was not given any authority as a manager and therefore should have been paid for overtime.

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'Next-generation' Shinkansen model on display

HAMAMATSU, Japan - A new Shinkansen model, the ''next-generation'' N-700 Series, on display in a press preview at the JR Tokai Hamamatsu plant in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecutre on April 10. According to JR engineers, a key N-700 technical feature is that the train, through the use of air spring, can bend at curves so that it does not have to decelerate when passing through curving passages. The N-700 Series, which will run in the Tokaido Sanyo Shinkansen line, can speed through curves at a maximum speed of 270 kilometers per hour in the Tokaido sector and 300 kph in the Sanyo sector, they say. As a result, the N-700 Series can travel between Tokyo and the Shin-Osaka station in Osaka in 2 hours and 25 minutes, down 5 minutes, and between Tokyo and the Hakata station in Fukuoka in 4 hours and 50 minutes.

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(10)Train derails, slams into apartment building in Hyogo Pref.

AMAGASAKI, Japan - Firefighters work hard to rescue survivors from one of first two commuter train cars that slammed into an apartment building in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecutre, on April 25.

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(10)Train derails, slams into apartment building in Hyogo Pref.

AMAGASAKI, Japan - Firefighters work hard to rescue survivors from one of first two commuter train cars that slammed into an apartment building in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecutre, on April 25. (Kyodo)

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'Next-generation' Shinkansen model on display

HAMAMATSU, Japan - A new Shinkansen model, the ''next-generation'' N-700 Series, on display in a press preview at the JR Tokai Hamamatsu plant in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecutre on April 10. According to JR engineers, a key N-700 technical feature is that the train, through the use of air spring, can bend at curves so that it does not have to decelerate when passing through curving passages. The N-700 Series, which will run in the Tokaido Sanyo Shinkansen line, can speed through curves at a maximum speed of 270 kilometers per hour in the Tokaido sector and 300 kph in the Sanyo sector, they say. As a result, the N-700 Series can travel between Tokyo and the Shin-Osaka station in Osaka in 2 hours and 25 minutes, down 5 minutes, and between Tokyo and the Hakata station in Fukuoka in 4 hours and 50 minutes. (Kyodo)

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Court orders McDonald's to pay overtime to manager

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroshi Takano (R), manager of a McDonald's outlet in the city of Kumagaya City, Saitama Prefecutre, and his wife Kuniko attend a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 28 after the Tokyo District Court ordered McDonald's Co. (Japan) Ltd. to pay some 7.5 million yen in overtime and compensation to him. The court acknowledged his claim that while McDonald's had appointed him to a managerial post, he was not given any authority as a manager and therefore should have been paid for overtime. (Kyodo)

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Japanese and Panamanian vessels collide off Shimonoseki

FUKUOKA, Japan - A 1,591-ton Japanese tanker, the Seihomaru No. 2, shows damage it suffered on its starboard side after colliding with a 3,683-ton Panamanian-registered cargo ship, New Prosperity, off Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecutre, on Aug. 26. Some gasoline the Seihomaru was carrying leaked, and its captain, Akitoshi Miyashita, suffered a cut in the face.