2. Students A, B and C each spend 30 minutes to enter 30 vocabulary cards into Anki on Monday. Student A follows Anki's review schedule, Student B reviews every card every day, and Student C never reviews. Each card takes 5 seconds to review. The next Monday, Students A and B remember 100% of the vocabulary. Student C remembers nothing.
Student A's Review Schedule
Monday (10 minutes after entering the card), Tuesday, Thursday, Monday
Total Time Spent:
= 30 minutes + (30 cards * 4 reviews * 5 seconds per review)
= 30 minutes + 600 seconds
= 40 minutes
How much time have Students B and C wasted?
When is Student A's next review?
3. TOEIC - Write 5 questions and answers from May 14 - Answers. Circle the keywords.
4. Japan Times Comments
5. Homework
Article 1
Firms actively expanding overseas operations tend to employ more workers than firms focusing on domestic markets, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry said in an annual report Friday.
The ministry showed the view based on a survey on business strategies of Japanese firms with overseas presence through exports, direct investment and production outsourcing, and those operating only in Japan.
The survey revealed that 16.2 percent of manufacturers with both domestic and overseas operations said they will increase employment in the three years to 2015, compared with 6.1 percent for those with domestic operations only, according to the 2012 report on trade.
In nonmanufacturing industries, the proportion stood at 32.6 percent for firms doing business abroad as well as in Japan and at 28.7 percent for companies focusing on domestic operations.
The report also stressed the need for Japanese manufacturers to strengthen their export competitiveness by making products that are expensive but sell well, noting that German products, for example, can maintain their competitiveness in the global market even when the euro rises against other currencies.
Article 2
A government panel set a goal Friday of doubling direct foreign investment into Japan to ¥35 trillion in 2020 from ¥17.5 trillion in 2011, focusing particularly on the energy and medical sectors, officials said.
The panel expects the investment to increase by ¥1.9 trillion annually on average by promoting preferential treatment, including an exemption from corporate tax, in the government-designated special economic zones in the March 2011 disaster-hit areas.
The government will hold symposiums targeting foreign firms at home and abroad, promoting the benefits of setting up plants as well as research and development hubs in these areas, the officials said.
It also hopes to boost the number of employees at foreign firms to 2 million in 2020 from some 750,000 in 2006.
Hiroshi Ogushi, parliamentary secretary of the Cabinet Office who chaired the panel meeting, said, "We want to revitalize the Japanese economy by attracting long-term and stable direct investment."
Article 3
NEC Corp. said Friday it will provide support to help struggling chip-maker Renesas Electronics Corp. turn its business around.
"As we have received a request from the company for support, we will offer a certain amount of support, taking into account it is our important business partner," NEC Senior Executive Vice President Takashi Niino said at an annual shareholders' meeting in Tokyo.
But he declined to elaborate on the details of support, saying it has not been decided yet. NEC is a major shareholder of Renesas, which controls about 40 percent of the global market for microcontrollers for automobiles.
NEC and two other major shareholders of Renesas have basically agreed to provide ¥50 billion for the firm, sources said.
