Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

*** Japan Times E-mail News Service ***
__________ Thursday, January 20, 2011 ________________


TODAY'S TOP STORIES
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[NATIONAL NEWS]
Key ministers meet to weigh tax hike
Key Cabinet ministers agree to map out comprehensive proposals on social welfare and tax reforms, with an eye to hiking the sales levy, by June as they meet for the first time to explore ways to cope with the problems of a rapidly aging society and mounting government debt.
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[NATIONAL NEWS]
Axed pilots, cabin crews sue JAL
A lawsuit is filed with the Tokyo District Court by 146 former Japan Airlines Corp. pilots and flight attendants seeking to nullify their dismissals by the carrier at the end of last month.
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  http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20110120a2.html

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[NATIONAL NEWS]
Indonesian nurses get extra shot at exam
The government plans to let Indonesian nurses and caregivers stay in Japan another year to give them an extra chance to take the annual nursing qualification exam.
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  http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20110120a3.html


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OTHER NEWS
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[NATIONAL NEWS]
Governor pitches cash for TOEFL-sharp Osaka schools
ERIC JOHNSTON
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20110120a4.html

[NATIONAL NEWS]
Chasm emerges as lawmakers debate tax reform pros and cons
NATSUKO FUKUE
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20110120a5.html

[NATIONAL NEWS]
Team finds more Peru geoglyphs
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20110120a6.html

[NATIONAL NEWS]
Taguchi seen alive last year in Pyongyang along with two South abductees
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20110120a7.html

[NATIONAL NEWS]
Film on double-hibakusha set for July release
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20110120a8.html

[NATIONAL NEWS]
Kitazawa visits base ahead of drill
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20110120a9.html

[NATIONAL NEWS]
Grads should shun bank jobs, execs say
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20110120n1.html


BUSINESS
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[BUSINESS NEWS]
Toho Cinemas to lower ticket prices
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nb20110120a1.html

[BUSINESS NEWS]
Keidanren, Rengo in wage talks faceoff
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nb20110120a2.html

[BUSINESS NEWS]
JAL defers \50 billion capital boost
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nb20110120a3.html

[BUSINESS NEWS]
Changing, re-embracing red crane
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nb20110120a4.html

[BUSINESS NEWS]
Kan wants EU free-trade talks to start this year
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nb20110120a5.html

[BUSINESS NEWS]
Ukraine to get farm tech aid, investment
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nb20110120a6.html

[BUSINESS NEWS]
Tokyo-area condo supply leaps 41%
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nb20110120a7.html

[BUSINESS NEWS]
787 now delayed till 3Q, ANA told
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nb20110120a8.html

[BUSINESS NEWS]
DoCoMo joins China Mobile, KT
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nb20110120a9.html

[BUSINESS NEWS]
Foreign firms seeking IPOs in Tokyo for the first time since 2007, TSE says
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nb20110120n1.html

[BUSINESS NEWS]
J-REITs predicted to double down as bond spreads narrow
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nb20110120n2.html


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OPINION
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[JT EDITORIAL]
Moment of truth nears
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/ed20110120a1.html

[OPINION]
Exposing globalization's dark side
JORGE HEINE and RAMESH THAKUR
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/eo20110120a1.html

[OPINION]
The price of climate change?
MICHAEL RICHARDSON
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/eo20110120mr.html

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FEATURES
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[EDUCATION AND BILINGUAL]
Wagashi
ALICE GORDENKER
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