Showing posts with label paternity leave. Show all posts
Showing posts with label paternity leave. Show all posts

Wednesday, 10 March 2010

Wasting Money and Taking Money

Asahi Super Dry congratulates Ibaraki on it's White Elephant.

Two seemingly unrelated news articles caught my attention today. The first is the opening of Ibaraki Prefecture Airport and the second is the Mayor of Tokyo’s Bunkyo Ward taking two weeks paid paternity leave. These two stories say volumes for how Japanese are masters at wasting money and geniuses at discouraging people from taking money and benefits that they are entitled to.