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Japan Headlines brings you a quick summary of what's hot in the Japanese news media. The program's host is former Reuters journalist Toshi Maeda. Script available below ----------------------------------------­­­­­------- Thanks for joining us on Japan Headlines. Today is Tuesday, June 21, and I’m Toshi Maeda in Tokyo, brininging the latest stories from Japanese newspapers that concern the international community. First, today’s edition of The Japan Times English-daily reports that out of the 47 Japanese prefectures, or states, 20 of them do not offer a multilingual service - or not even an English-speaker - at public consultation counters for people having labor issues. These public consultation desks provide advice on such problems as nonpayment, overwork and power harassment. And the news report says despite the lack of language assistance, nearly 10,000 foreign workers across Japan were given consultations last year. According to the latest statistics, more than 900,000 foreign workers live and work in Japan, and this number is expected to hit 1 million by the end of this year. Meanwhile, today’s business daily Nikkei says the University of Tokyo is no longer Asia’s top university, falling to No.7 in an Asian university ranking. In the newly released Times Higher Education Asian University Rankings, the University of Tokyo, which had held the top position for the last three years, has been replaced by the National University of Singapore, followed by another Singaporean university, Nanyang Technological University, and Beijing University in China. The “weakening of Japan’s comparative position” and “two decades of Japan’s constrained university funding” were cited as reasons for the University of Tokyo’s decline. Finally, a sleepy town in Shizuoka, central Japan, is suddently booming with anime fans going on “pilgrimages” and visiting places that appear in an anime, that’s according to the Tokyo Shimbun newspaper. The latest series of the TV anime show titled “Love Live!” is ranked the most anticipated anime this summer Because this anime show is set in the town of Numazu at the foot of Mt. Fuji, fans are gathering in this town from across the nation, boositng local tourism.