New government data on Japan's economy shows it is continuing to lose steam. While personal spending is marginally up, companies are investing less and the the economy shrank between July and September. It is the second consecutive quarter of contraction.

Every year, a few thousand young people from around the world arrive in Japan to help students learn English at schools across the country. They're part of the government's Japan Exchange and Teaching program, better known as JET. Since the first recruits arrived in 1987, more than 60,000 people from 65 countries have been part of the program.