Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

*** Japan Times E-mail News Service ***
__________ Sunday, May 29, 2011 ________________


TODAY'S TOP STORIES
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[NATIONAL NEWS]
Memo emblematic of disaster plan flaws
Nuclear regulators trusted that the reactors at Fukushima No. 1 were safe from the worst tsunami imaginable based on a single-page memo issued by Tokyo Electric Power Co. nearly a decade ago.
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[NATIONAL NEWS]
G-8 differ in reactions to Fukushima
At the G-8 summit in France, member nations express different opinions on atomic power in response to the nuclear disaster playing out in Fukushima Prefecture.
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[NATIONAL NEWS]
As nuke workers wait, tainted water climbs
Tokyo Electric Power Co. treads water as engineers race to build a treatment plant to remove radioactive substances from the deadly water threatening both the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant and the sea.
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OTHER NEWS
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[NATIONAL NEWS]
Power outages, downed communication lines knocked out most radiation monitoring systems in disaster areas
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20110529a4.html

[NATIONAL NEWS]
Chinese travel mission looks to boost tourism
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20110529a5.html

[NATIONAL NEWS]
Senior Vietnamese Communist official's visit to cover ties, biz
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20110529a6.html

[NATIONAL NEWS]
More grillings to be recorded, prosecutors say
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20110529a7.html

[NATIONAL NEWS]
40 injured in train tunnel accident
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20110529a8.html

[NATIONAL NEWS]
KANSAI: Who & What
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20110529k1.html


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OPINION
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[JT EDITORIAL]
New role for robots in Japan
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/ed20110529a1.html

[JT EDITORIAL]
Postdisaster reading
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/ed20110529a2.html

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FEATURES
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[BOOKS]
Electrifying one-act lives
STEPHEN MANSFIELD
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/fb20110529a1.html

[BOOKS]
Legends of the Middle Kingdom
DAVID COZY
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/fb20110529a2.html

[MEDIA]
The hot, sticky summer of our discontent
GEOFF BOTTING
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/fd20110529bj.html

[MEDIA]
Celebrity eco tour; Yutaka Sado's dream come true; CM of the week: Midori Anzen
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/fd20110529cs.html

[MEDIA]
Kan government struggles to raise reconstruction funds
PHILIP BRASOR
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/fd20110529pb.html

[ENVIRONMENT]
A garden pictogram lives on
STEPHEN MANSFIELD
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/fe20110529a1.html

[LIFE IN JAPAN]
Japanese genius shines eclectic in its extravagant simplicities of style
ROGER PULVERS
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/fl20110529rp.html

[LIFE IN JAPAN]
Serendipities at every turn on this island 'pearl'
MARK BRAZIL
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/fl20110529x1.html

[TRAVEL]
Casting around in Tsukudajima
KIT NAGAMURA
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/fv20110529kn.html


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SPORTS
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[BASEBALL]
Rockies' Jimenez shelled by Cards
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/sb20110529a1.html

[BASEBALL]
Red Sox roll past Tigers
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/sb20110529a2.html

[BASEBALL]
Carter's tumor likely malignant
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/sb20110529a3.html

[BASEBALL]
Sumitani bashes go-ahead homer for Lions
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/sb20110529j1.html

[SOCCER]
FIFA election descends into farce with Blatter probe
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/sc20110529a1.html

[AMERICAN FOOTBALL]
NFL, Dallas want ticket suit dropped
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/sf20110529a1.html

[GOLF]
Sabbatini withdraws from Memorial
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/sg20110529a1.html

[GOLF]
Yokomine trails Lee by a stroke
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/sg20110529a2.html

[ICE HOCKEY]
Bruins edge Lightning, book trip to Stanley Cup finals
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/sh20110529a1.html

[J.LEAGUE SOCCER]
Tanaka double guides leaders Reysol past Vissel
ANDREW MCKIRDY
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/sj20110529a1.html

[BASKETBALL]
McHale set
for Rockets
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/sk20110529a1.html

[BASKETBALL]
Apache's Hill to work in Taiwan
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/sk20110529b1.html

[SPORTS]
Lab says no coverup on Lance test
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/sp20110529a1.html

[SPORTS]
Alonso sets pace in qualifying
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/sp20110529a2.html

[TENNIS]
Top seed Wozniacki ousted
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/st20110529a1.html


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