During the campaign period that starts June 1, environment ministry employees can wear jeans (without holes), chinos, Hawaiian shirts and solid-color T-shirts to work. The ministry is urging the private sector to follow suit and avert a possible shortage of electricity in the Kanto region, which is serviced by the embattled Tokyo Electric Power Co.
Common factors among companies whose foreign workers chose not to leave after the disaster, [can be] compiled mnemonically as A-B-C-D, which stand for "Accountability" (dispelling anxiety by working to keep the foreign staff informed); "Bonds" (building relationships that will make them want to stay); "Career" (making the acquisition of "knowledge" their motive for staying on the job); and "Diversity" (discarding the awareness of differences because the workers are foreigners).