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Taiwan: Typhoon Danas Batters Southern Region, Leaving Widespread Damage 3

Typhoon Danas made landfall near Chiayi's Budai Township around 11:40 p.m. on Sunday, July 6, bringing gusty winds and heavy rainfall to the southern region. Typhoon Danas weakened to a tropical storm after its eye departed Taiwan early Monday.

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Livestreaming helps firms in China's Qingdao recruit people

STORY: Livestreaming helps firms in China's Qingdao recruit people DATELINE: March 31, 2023 LENGTH: 00:00:37 LOCATION: JINAN, China CATEGORY: SOCIETY/ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the livestreaming industrial park in east China's Shandong Province 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): YANG LIUYIN, Qingdao Jinhongxiang Human Resource Service Co.,Ltd. 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): WANG YANCHUN, Secretary-general, Association for the Promotion of Human Resources Development, West Coast New Area of Qingdao STORYLINE: An industrial park focused on livestreaming recruitment is helping firms in east China's Qingdao to recruit talents. It will offer about 50,000 job opportunities in the next three to five years. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): YANG LIUYIN, Qingdao Jinhongxiang Human Resource Service Co., Ltd. "We livestream work scenarios of enterprises. Livestreaming and short videos improve the efficiency and the scope of our recruitment. We can communicate with job seekers more directly, effectively and quickly. Livestreaming also

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Recruit's 1st half net profit falls 4% to 28.48 bil. yen

TOKYO, Japan - Masumi Minegishi, president of Recruit Holdings Co., briefs reporters on the company's half-year earnings report for the April-September period in Tokyo on Nov. 13, 2014. The media and human resources company's net profit for the period fell 4.1 percent from a year earlier to 28.48 billion yen in its first earnings report since listing on the Tokyo Stock Exchange last month.

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Recruit eyes housekeeping support service for working women

TOKYO, Japan - Masumi Minegishi, president of media and human resources firm Recruit Holdings Co., is interviewed by Kyodo News in Tokyo on Oct. 20, 2014. Minegishi said in the interview that Recruit is considering entering the housekeeping support business for working women, undertaking various chores at the homes of women while they are out working.

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Recruit Holdings makes solid TSE debut

TOKYO, Japan - Masumi Minegishi, president of media and human resources firm Recruit Holdings Co., speaks to reporters in Tokyo on Oct. 16, 2014, after the end of the day's trading on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Recruit began trading on the First Section of the TSE that day following the biggest initial public offering in Japan this year, and its share price closed 7.4 percent higher than the IPO price.

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Jobs media Recruit listed on TSE

TOKYO, Japan - Masumi Minegishi, president of media and human resources firm Recruit Holdings Co., rings the bell at the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Oct. 16, 2014, in a ceremony celebrating the company's listing on the exchange's First Section. Recruit, which expanded rapidly in the 1980s before running into difficulties in 1988 when it was involved in a major bribery scandal, has since achieved a turnaround.

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Jobs media Recruit listed on TSE

TOKYO, Japan - Masumi Minegishi, president of media and human resources firm Recruit Holdings Co., rings the bell at the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Oct. 16, 2014, in a ceremony celebrating the company's listing on the exchange's First Section. Recruit, which expanded rapidly in the 1980s before running into difficulties in 1988 when it was involved in a major bribery scandal, has since achieved a turnaround.

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Jobs media Recruit listed on TSE

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Oct. 16, 2014, shows the building housing the headquarters of media and human resources firm Recruit Holdings Co. in Tokyo's Marunouchi district. Recruit, which expanded rapidly in the 1980s before running into difficulties in 1988 when it was involved in a major bribery scandal, has since achieved a turnaround and was listed on the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange the same day.

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Osaka Mayor Hashimoto

OSAKA, Japan - Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto speaks to reporters at Osaka City Hall in Osaka on May 13, 2013. Hashimoto, who co-heads the opposition Japan Restoration Party, said he believes the system to recruit women into sexual servitude was "necessary to maintain discipline" in the Japanese military during World War II.

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Recruit founder Ezoe dies

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Hiromasa Ezoe, founder of Recruit Co., a classified advertising conglomerate, when he was summoned in November 1988 as a sworn witness before a House of Representatives committee on a high-profile shares-for-favors scandal in which Recruit was involved. Ezoe died of pneumonia at a Tokyo hospital at the age of 76 on Feb. 8, 2013.

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Recruit founder Ezoe dies

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in March 2010 shows Hiromasa Ezoe, the founder of Recruit Co., a classified advertising conglomerate that was mired in a high-profile shares-for-favors scandal in the 1980s. Ezoe died of pneumonia at a Tokyo hospital at the age of 76 on Feb. 8, 2013.

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Mitsuoka Motor recruits firms to road-test 3-wheel EV

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows a three-wheel electric vehicle made by Mitsuoka Motor Co. in Tokyo on July 7, 2011. The company announced a plan to recruit local businesses to road-test the vehicle, called the Like-T3, which has been jointly developed with a subsidiary of GS Yuasa Corp.

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Dining halls for employees making comeback in Japanese companies

TOKYO, Japan - Employees of Recruit Co. in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward gather at the corporate dining hall ''Sorabako'' (sky box) for lunch.

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Ito-Yokado holds initiation ceremony for new hires

TOKYO, Japan - A total of 776 new graduates took part in a recruit initiation ceremony for major supermarket chain operator Ito-Yokado Co. and its group companies at a hotel in Tokyo March 18.

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Recruit scandal-tainted Fujinami expresses intent to retire

TOKYO, Japan - Former Chief Cabinet Secretary Takao Fujinami (file photo) on July 26 expressed his intention not to seek reelection as a House of Representatives member, citing health reasons. In March 1997, the Tokyo High Court sentenced Fujinami to three years in prison, suspended for four years, for accepting more than 40 million yen worth of bribes from Recruit Co.

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Ex-NTT Pres. Shinto, convicted in Recruit scandal, dies

TOKYO, Japan - Former Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (NTT) President Hisashi Shinto, seen in this file photo taken in April 1987, died of pneumonia on Jan. 26 at age 92. Shinto, also former president of Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries Co. (IHI), was convicted of bribery in the 1980s Recruit shares-for-favors scandal.

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Nakauchi steps down from all executive posts in Daiei group

TOKYO, Japan - Supermarket chain operator Daiei Inc. founder and former chairman Isao Nakauchi (in file photo) has stepped down from all his executive posts at Daiei group companies, including that of honorary chairman at Recruit Co., Daiei officials said Feb. 6. Among other jobs Nakauchi resigned are chairman of the Daiei Hawks professional baseball team and senior advisory posts at restaurant chain Volks Inc. and department store Printemps Ginza S.A.

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40% of women expect returns from 'duty' Valentine's chocolates

TOKYO, Japan - A flight attendant of Japan Airlines presents a chocolate with a message card to a baby in a departure lounge at Haneda airport in Tokyo on Feb. 13., the day before Valentine's Day. It is customary in Japan for women to give chocolates to men on Feb. 14. Forty percent of female office workers expect to receive something in return for chocolate they give on Valentine's Day, according to a survey by Recruit Co.

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Prosecutors seek 4 yrs for Ezoe over Recruit scandal

TOKYO, Japan - Hiromasa Ezoe, former chairman of Recruit Co. who is charged with selling unlisted shares in Recruit's real-estate subsidiary Recruit Cosmos Co. at low prices to politicians, bureaucrats and business leaders, enters the Tokyo District Court on March 29 to attend the hearing of his trial. Prosecutors demanded a four-year prison term for Ezoe.

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Ezoe guilty in Recruit scandal, gets suspended sentence

TOKYO, Japan - Hiromasa Ezoe, former chairman of Recruit Co., enters the Tokyo District Court on March 4 to hear the court's verdict on him. Convicted of bribery in a 1980s stocks-for-favors scandal, Ezoe was sentenced to three years in prison, suspended for five years. (Kyodo)

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Ex-NTT Pres. Shinto, convicted in Recruit scandal, dies

TOKYO, Japan - Former Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (NTT) President Hisashi Shinto, seen in this file photo taken in April 1987, died of pneumonia on Jan. 26 at age 92. Shinto, also former president of Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries Co. (IHI), was convicted of bribery in the 1980s Recruit shares-for-favors scandal. (Kyodo)

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Recruit Technologies displays women-oriented wearable IT devices

Recruit Technologies Co. displays women-oriented wearable information technology devices in Tokyo on March 17, 2015. The company has developed them on a trial basis, incorporating ideas proposed by female university students. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Dining halls for employees making comeback in Japanese companies

TOKYO, Japan - Employees of Recruit Co. in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward gather at the corporate dining hall ''Sorabako'' (sky box) for lunch. (Kyodo)

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Nakauchi steps down from all executive posts in Daiei group

TOKYO, Japan - Supermarket chain operator Daiei Inc. founder and former chairman Isao Nakauchi (in file photo) has stepped down from all his executive posts at Daiei group companies, including that of honorary chairman at Recruit Co., Daiei officials said Feb. 6. Among other jobs Nakauchi resigned are chairman of the Daiei Hawks professional baseball team and senior advisory posts at restaurant chain Volks Inc. and department store Printemps Ginza S.A.

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Mitsuoka Motor recruits firms to road-test 3-wheel EV

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows a three-wheel electric vehicle made by Mitsuoka Motor Co. in Tokyo on July 7, 2011. The company announced a plan to recruit local businesses to road-test the vehicle, called the Like-T3, which has been jointly developed with a subsidiary of GS Yuasa Corp. (Kyodo)

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Recruit's 1st half net profit falls 4% to 28.48 bil. yen

TOKYO, Japan - Masumi Minegishi, president of Recruit Holdings Co., briefs reporters on the company's half-year earnings report for the April-September period in Tokyo on Nov. 13, 2014. The media and human resources company's net profit for the period fell 4.1 percent from a year earlier to 28.48 billion yen in its first earnings report since listing on the Tokyo Stock Exchange last month. (Kyodo)

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Jobs media Recruit listed on TSE

TOKYO, Japan - Masumi Minegishi, president of media and human resources firm Recruit Holdings Co., rings the bell at the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Oct. 16, 2014, in a ceremony celebrating the company's listing on the exchange's First Section. Recruit, which expanded rapidly in the 1980s before running into difficulties in 1988 when it was involved in a major bribery scandal, has since achieved a turnaround. (Kyodo)

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Jobs media Recruit listed on TSE

TOKYO, Japan - Masumi Minegishi, president of media and human resources firm Recruit Holdings Co., rings the bell at the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Oct. 16, 2014, in a ceremony celebrating the company's listing on the exchange's First Section. Recruit, which expanded rapidly in the 1980s before running into difficulties in 1988 when it was involved in a major bribery scandal, has since achieved a turnaround. (Kyodo)

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Key figure in Recruit scandal takes oath at Diet

Hiromasa Ezoe, former chairman of information conglomerate Recruit Co. and seen as a key figure in the widening stock-for-favor recruit scandal, stands up at a meeting of the House of Representatives special committee on the scandal before testifying under oath on Nov. 21, 1988. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Recruit Holdings' child care facility

A woman in this photo taken in February 2017 waves to children at Recruit Holdings Co.'s on-site child care facility in Tokyo's Minato Ward. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ito-Yokado holds initiation ceremony for new hires

TOKYO, Japan - A total of 776 new graduates took part in a recruit initiation ceremony for major supermarket chain operator Ito-Yokado Co. and its group companies at a hotel in Tokyo March 18. (Kyodo)

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Recruit scandal-tainted Fujinami expresses intent to retire

TOKYO, Japan - Former Chief Cabinet Secretary Takao Fujinami (file photo) on July 26 expressed his intention not to seek reelection as a House of Representatives member, citing health reasons. In March 1997, the Tokyo High Court sentenced Fujinami to three years in prison, suspended for four years, for accepting more than 40 million yen worth of bribes from Recruit Co. (Kyodo)

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40% of women expect returns from 'duty' Valentine's chocolates

TOKYO, Japan - A flight attendant of Japan Airlines presents a chocolate with a message card to a baby in a departure lounge at Haneda airport in Tokyo on Feb. 13., the day before Valentine's Day. It is customary in Japan for women to give chocolates to men on Feb. 14. Forty percent of female office workers expect to receive something in return for chocolate they give on Valentine's Day, according to a survey by Recruit Co.