The purpose of this guidance is to provide an update to USAIDâs policy and procedures. for applying and authorizing Separate Maintenance Allowance (SMA). SMA is one of. several cost-of-living allowances under.
In 1978 there was a report on 17 karoshi cases. Karoshi is not a pure medical term but a sociomedical term that refers to fatalities or associated work disability due to cardiovascular attacks (such as brain strokes, myocardial infarction or acute cardiac failure) aggravated by a heavy workload and long working hours.
Nigiri - slices of fish on vinegared rice with wasabi. The word sushi is often ambiguous for non-native Japanese. We think of it as being interchangeable with raw fish. Sushi is vinegared rice topped with other ingredients. Sashimi, which is slices of raw fish alone, is not sushi because it isn't accompanied with rice. Originally, sushi was fermented fish with rice preserved in salt, and this was a staple dish in Japan for a thousand years until the Edo Period (1603 to 1868) when contemporary sushi was developed.