Mobile Phones (携帯電話)

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Very briefly, there are three mobile phone technologies supported by the major networks within Japan - PDC (Personal Digital Cellular), CDMA (Code Divisional Multiple Access) and WCDMA. DoCoMo, Vodafone and TU-KA support the established PDC, and DoCoMo and Vodafone have also introduced the newer WCDMA, while AU supports CDMA. All three of these technologies are incompatible with each other.

Outside of Japan, CDMA networks exist in about 40 other countries, but by far the most common technology in the world is GSM - which exists in over 200 countries (including major destinations in Europe, Africa and Asia Pacific). Within these countries, GSM uses four different frequencies - 850, 900, 1800 and 1900MHz.

The Japanese networks have looked to combine international CDMA, or GSM technology, with their domestic technology as a way to offer a service to their subscribers that allows them to use just one phone both in Japan, and internationally.

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Haken No Hinkaku　(ハケンの品格)

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Haken No Hinkaku
Oomae Haruko is an A+ Temp worker who never cracks a smile or minces words, and leaves work on the dot. But her cynical nature indicates she has something painful to hide. Satonaka Kensuke has just been promoted to head Marketing Division. Saddled with a rag-tag group of subordinates, he is struggling to lift his division off the ground. When Oomae is placed in Kensuke’s department, she finds herself doing more work than she’s ever done before.
This is a timely drama that examines the different attitudes toward temp workers and regular employees, and the ways to overcome frictions in interpersonal relationships. This follows an October reporton labor conditions by the Labor Ministry, which showed that, after regulations were relaxed, the proportion of regular employees to Temps had doubled compared to that of eight years ago.
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