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Companies Might Have to 'Lean In' to Transparency by Reporting Salaries

Companies Might Have to 'Lean In' to Transparency by Reporting Salaries 

For all the leaning in, women still made 82 cents on the dollar in 2017. Women of color fared even worse.

U.N. Environment Assembly Begins in Nairobi

Thousands of officials, including heads of state and business leaders, are in Nairobi this week for the UN’s Environment Assembly.

Cleaning Up After the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster

After the biggest nuclear disaster since Chernobyl, Japan is continuing its clean-up of Fukushima. And it's getting a little assistance from an unlikely helper: robots.

Companies Might Have to 'Lean In' to Transparency by Reporting Salaries

Fan Overboard!

This week, Studio 360 gets obsessed about fandom: a look inside the world of black cosplayers at ComicCon, Kurt visits a Japanese pop culture paradise, and an atheist proselytizes “Jesus Christ Superstar.”

Fan Overboard!
 Trump press conference covered on Japanese TV

US Asia policy under Trump: A Honolulu-Tokyo town hall

President Trump's declarations on Asia have caused much uncertainty in the region. To better understand the hopes, fears, and concerns on both sides of the Pacific, America Abroad convened a bi-national town hall bringing together audiences and experts in both Honolulu and Tokyo.
US Asia policy under Trump: A Honolulu-Tokyo town hall
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History, memory & Hiroshima: Why President Obama's visit matters

President Barack Obama's visit to Hiroshima in Japan will be the first ever by a sitting US president, remembering the hundreds of thousands of lives lost and scarred when the United States became the first and (thus far) only power to use nuclear weapons, dropping two in August 1945 to force Japan's surrender, ending World War II. Critics complain that Obama's visit makes the US look weak. Supporters call the visit inspired, a sign of respect for a close ally, recognition of pain and loss, a realization that how and what societies remember, shapes their future. They say facing history is not only a sign of strength, but of moral leadership.
History, memory & Hiroshima: Why President Obama's visit matters
Tokyo's streets are still hopping, after more than two 'lost decades' of low or flat economic growth.

Alive and (pretty) well after lost decades, Japan has lessons for China

Japan's economic growth is anemic, its population is aging and shrinking, and some Japanese wonder if Japan will still matter, as the century moves ahead. One way it does is as an example to China of what works and what doesn't, in managing an economy at home and power projection abroad. Japan also stands as an object lesson: A rise that looks inevitable may not be.
Alive and (pretty) well after lost decades, Japan has lessons for China