Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

Friday 17 May 2013

The Japan Times

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Nippon Ishin to oust member over South Korean prostitute claim

Nippon Ishin no Kai, whose coleader Toru Hashimoto is under fire for contentious remarks, will expel a party lawmaker who claims Japan has "swarms" of ...

Fish milt used to glean rare earths

Japanese researchers said Friday they have found a better, cheaper way to smelt rare earth metals by using salmon milt, or sperm. Rare earth ores can ...

Machinery orders jump 14.2%, sharpest since ’05

Core private-sector machinery orders jump a seasonally adjusted 14.2 percent, indicating the weaker yen and higher stocks are starting to prompt companies to boost investment.

Minds traumatized by disaster heal themselves

One of the largest earthquakes ever recorded hit on Boxing Day 2004. The resulting tsunami devastated huge swaths of the Indian Ocean coastline and left ...

Psychiatrists under fire in mental health battle

It has the distinctly un-catchy, abbreviated title "DSM-5," and is known to no one outside the world of mental health. But, even before its publication on ...

Neocriminology: identifying a murderer’s brain

In 1987, Adrian Raine, who describes himself as a neurocriminologist, moved from Britain to America. His emigration was prompted by two things. The first was ...

A glimpse inside the minds of sex slavery predators

The annals of criminal history are writ large with ordinary streets that hide dark secrets, but even so the peculiar horror believed to have been ...

Boston suspect called victims ‘collateral damage’ for wars overseas

Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev wrote a note before his capture in which he called the victims "collateral damage" for U.S. action in Afghanistan and ...


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China-India: coercion easily trumps diffidence

In a classic replay of its old game, China recently intruded across the Himalayan frontier with India and then disingenuously counseled "patience" and "negotiations."

Alleviate Okinawa’s burden

Forty-one years after Okinawa reverted from U.S. administration to Japan, Okinawans are not happy about the U.S. military presence or Japan-China territorial tensions.

Shut Monju down permanently

The Abe government should give up on the trouble-plagued Monju fast-breeder reactor project after the Nuclear Regulation Authority cited safety management problems.

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Foreign-born professional strives to reconnect Japanese with koto music

Life in Japan just seems tailor-made for certain foreign residents, who slip into the fabric of this society as smoothly as a hand slides into ...

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Icon Beckham set to retire

David Beckham, whose curling free kicks, rugged good looks and celebrity marriage made him one of the most famous athletes in the world, is retiring ...

Knicks dig in, force Game 6

Carmelo Anthony and the New York Knicks broke out just enough to stay in it. Anthony scored 28 points and the Knicks avoided elimination in the ...

Darvish bests Verlander to notch seventh victory of season

Banished to the dugout after his shortest outing in nearly three years, Justin Verlander wandered around like he didn't know who or where he was. ...

Niigata, Yokohama evenly matched in Final Four clash

One victory separated the Eastern Conference regular-season champion Niigata Albirex BB and the second-place Yokohama B-Corsairs in the standings. That one game is indicative of ...

Marchand lifts Bruins to OT triumph over Rangers

Good things happen for the Bruins in overtime. Even for Brad Marchand. Boston's leading goal-scorer during the regular season scored his first of the postseason with ...

Striker Wilson to complete suspension this weekend

Wilson, Vegalta Sendai

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