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	<title>The Japan Times &#187; Alice Gordenker</title>
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		<title>Oversized trash</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/16/reference/oversized-trash/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=oversized-trash</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2013 14:05:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Gordenker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[sodaigomi]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Alice, The other day, on the street outside the building next to mine, I saw a nice looking table with a sodai gomi (oversized garbage) sticker it. When I returned with a tape measure to see if the table would fit in my living room, an elderly woman came out. &#8220;You can&#8217;t take that,&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mosquito coils</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/15/reference/mosquito-coils/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=mosquito-coils</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jul 2013 14:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Gordenker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fukuzawa Yukichi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kincho]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mosquito coils]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ueyama Eiichiro]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Alice, I have lived in Japan for almost 30 years, and nothing says "summer in Japan" to me like the sight and smell of those once-ubiquitous green mosquito coils. ]]></description>
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		<title>Okigusuri</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/06/18/reference/okigusuri/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=okigusuri</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:02:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Gordenker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[medicine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[okigusuri]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tokyo-to Iyakuhin Haichi Kyokai]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Alice, I was on a two-week home stay in the countryside of Japan when a visitor came to the house. I don&#8217;t think he was expected, but my home-stay mother greeted him like an old friend and fetched a plastic drawer-box from the kitchen, which seemed to contain packaged medicines. While they chatted over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Postal symbol</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/05/21/reference/postal-symbol/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=postal-symbol</link>
		<comments>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/05/21/reference/postal-symbol/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 15:10:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Gordenker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[post office]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Alice, This may seem like a stupid question, or too trivial a subject for you, but what the heck is the symbol that precedes the post code on every piece of domestic mail I receive here in Japan? I&#8217;m sure you know what I mean — it looks like the letter T but has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Early photos of northern Japan capture a time of change</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/04/18/arts/early-photos-of-northern-japan-capture-a-time-of-change/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=early-photos-of-northern-japan-capture-a-time-of-change</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 15:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Gordenker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[photography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Although photography entered Japan in the mid-19th century, it took time to spread beyond the few port cities permitted to engage in trade with the West at that time. As a result, it was several decades before this imported Western technology reached outlying districts, and by then the Japanese concept of photography had broadened considerably. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The 5 p.m. bell</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/04/16/reference/bosai-musen/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=bosai-musen</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 15:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Gordenker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[5 p.m. chime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[disaster warning]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Alice, I live in a medium-size city in Saitama Prefecture and am puzzled by a speaker system mounted on a huge pole right outside my apartment. Every evening at 5 p.m., music plays from the speakers for 20 or 30 seconds and then stops. It&#8217;s the same song every day, which I don&#8217;t recognize, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>White gloves</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/03/19/reference/white-gloves/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=white-gloves</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 15:05:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Gordenker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[white gloves]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Alice, I&#8217;m curious about the prevalence of white gloves in Japan. As I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve noticed, all sorts of people wear white gloves on the job here, including taxi drivers, police officers and elevator girls. I have no idea if this is true, but I once heard that this dates back to 1966, when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nori</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/02/19/reference/nori/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=nori</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2013 15:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Gordenker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ajitsukenori]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nori]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[seaweed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[yakinori]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Alice, I was out for a walk with my camera the other day and came across a puzzling scene. I saw people putting what I thought were squares of dark paper onto easels in the sun, as if to dry. But when I went closer, the squares actually seemed to be nori seaweed sheets, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Warōsoku</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/01/15/reference/warsoku/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=warsoku</link>
		<comments>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/01/15/reference/warsoku/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Gordenker</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Alice, My Japanese mother-in-law is very traditional and spends at lot of time maintaining the family butsudan, the cabinet-like Buddhist altar in the main room of her home. It is part of her daily routine to light candles, pray and make small offerings of food to the deceased relatives memorialized there. So when my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Senkyo post&#257; keijiba</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/12/18/reference/senkyo-post-keijiba/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=senkyo-post-keijiba</link>
		<comments>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/12/18/reference/senkyo-post-keijiba/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Gordenker</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Alice, Thank you as always for your interesting column. I have a question about those temporary bulletin boards that crop up from time to time, the ones with the blank squares with numbers in the center. One appeared recently near my home, soon followed by the noise pollution of another election, by which I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Emergency announcements</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/11/20/reference/emergency-announcements/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=emergency-announcements</link>
		<comments>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/11/20/reference/emergency-announcements/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Gordenker</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Alice, I&#8217;ve lived in Japan for four years and although I speak a fair amount of Japanese, I can&#8217;t make out what the heck ambulance crews are saying on their loudspeakers when they&#8217;re trying to get through traffic. Are those set phrases or are they speaking to the specific situation on the road? It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Straw belts</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/10/16/reference/straw-belts/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=straw-belts</link>
		<comments>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/10/16/reference/straw-belts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Gordenker</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Alice, My question is about those straw belts that get wrapped around the trunks of pine trees a meter or so above the ground. I know they have something to do with fooling insects into laying their eggs in the straw instead of the bark, but could you give us more details? For example, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What it means to be &#8216;Made in Japan&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2012/10/02/lifestyle/what-it-means-to-be-made-in-japan/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=what-it-means-to-be-made-in-japan</link>
		<comments>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2012/10/02/lifestyle/what-it-means-to-be-made-in-japan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2012 00:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Gordenker</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Made in Japan&#8221; is a such a simple phrase, yet it instantly evokes an image of exceptional design and high-quality production. Japan today is known for creating some of the most stylish, innovative and whimsical products in the world. Tokyo-based architect and writer Naomi Pollock spent the last two years immersed in Japanese product design, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kaohame</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/09/18/reference/kaohame/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=kaohame</link>
		<comments>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/09/18/reference/kaohame/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Gordenker</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Alice, I travel a lot within Japan, and often come across a dated sort of tourist attraction that I don&#8217;t know quite how to describe. They are wooden façades, often hand-painted and rather amateurish, depicting a person or persons with a hole where the head should be. A passing tourist can stand behind the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chindonya</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/07/17/reference/chindonya/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=chindonya</link>
		<comments>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/07/17/reference/chindonya/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Gordenker</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Alice, Some years ago on a visit to Japan, in Osaka, we came across a wandering band dressed in full kimono and playing what sounded like Dixieland jazz on an odd assortment of Japanese and Western instruments. From what I could make out, they were promoting a business, but I never did learn what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Slow design: Everyday objects that make us rethink our lifestyle</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2012/06/21/arts/slow-design-everyday-objects-that-make-us-rethink-our-lifestyle/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=slow-design-everyday-objects-that-make-us-rethink-our-lifestyle</link>
		<comments>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2012/06/21/arts/slow-design-everyday-objects-that-make-us-rethink-our-lifestyle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2012 00:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Gordenker</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve never been to the 21_21 Design Sight exhibition space in the Tokyo Midtown complex, and have even a passing interest in craftsmanship, now is the time to pay a visit. Just touring the building, which was designed by famed architect Tadao Ando and lies largely underground, would be well worth the admission price. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seaweed Salt</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/06/19/reference/seaweed-salt/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=seaweed-salt</link>
		<comments>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/06/19/reference/seaweed-salt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Gordenker</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Alice, I recently received a gift of some special kind of Japanese salt. If I understood correctly, this particular salt is made from seaweed and by some ancient Japanese production method. It&#8217;s beige in color and has a nice, rich taste. But I have no idea what it&#8217;s called or where it&#8217;s made. Can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kura</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/05/15/reference/kura/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=kura</link>
		<comments>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/05/15/reference/kura/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Gordenker</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Alice, I love to wander around Tokyo, particularly the older neighborhoods where small shops and little factories are mixed in among homes and schools. Every now and then I spot a strange sort of structure, obviously quite old, that is completely different from the other houses and buildings around it. These structures are tall [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pampered pets</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/04/17/reference/pampered-pets/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=pampered-pets</link>
		<comments>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/04/17/reference/pampered-pets/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Gordenker</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Alice,Don&#8217;t you think it&#8217;s time you did a column on the crazy pet products and services available in Japan? I can&#8217;t believe the lengths some dog owners go to &#8212; dressing their pets in frilly clothes, pushing them around in baby carriages and taking them into cafes. My wife says I&#8217;m crazy but I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Photographing history: pioneers of technique</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2012/03/22/arts/photographing-history-pioneers-of-technique/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=photographing-history-pioneers-of-technique</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 00:01:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Gordenker</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A good retrospective presents an artist&#8217;s full career, challenges our preconceptions and encourages us to rethink his or her work and contributions. Two new exhibitions at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography do just that, shedding new light on two very different photographers: Felice Beato (1832-1909), one of the first photographers to work in Japan, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Photographing history: pioneers of technique</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 00:01:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Gordenker</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A good retrospective presents an artist&#8217;s full career, challenges our preconceptions and encourages us to rethink his or her work and contributions. Two new exhibitions at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography do just that, shedding new light on two very different photographers: Felice Beato (1832-1909), one of the first photographers to work in Japan, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Randoseru</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/03/20/reference/randoseru/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=randoseru</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Gordenker</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Alice,As a parent of two children who negotiated the Japanese educational system from day care to university, I&#8217;ve always been curious about &#8220;randoseru&#8221; &#8212; those box-like leather schoolbags used by every primary school student in Japan. First-graders nearly topple over from the weight of them; by the time the kids have grown into rangy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Miso&#8217;s &#8216;moya moya&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/02/21/reference/misos-moya-moya/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=misos-moya-moya</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Gordenker</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Alice, My wife and I have been married long enough that our meals can be largely silent affairs, giving me plenty of time to contemplate the mysteries of my miso soup. I&#8217;d like to know what&#8217;s in the cloudy bits and how the heck they move around in the soup. And why, if you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Platform doors</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/01/17/reference/platform-doors/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=platform-doors</link>
		<comments>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/01/17/reference/platform-doors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Gordenker</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Alice,As a longtime resident of Japan, I have watched with interest the recent installation of barriers on the platforms of many of our subway and train lines. These barriers run the full length of the platform and have sliding gates at just the places where there are train doors when a train is in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exposing new spins on old-school photography</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2012/01/05/arts/exposing-new-spins-on-old-school-photography-2/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=exposing-new-spins-on-old-school-photography-2</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Gordenker</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[For a truly fresh outlook on Tokyo, run, don&#8217;t walk, to the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography to see Sohei Nishino&#8217;s exciting photo-collages of Tokyo and nine other cities, on display through Jan. 29 along with works by other up-and-coming Japanese photographers. The exhibition is the 10th in an ongoing series on contemporary photography and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exposing new spins on old-school photography</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Gordenker</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[For a truly fresh outlook on Tokyo, run, don&#8217;t walk, to the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography to see Sohei Nishino&#8217;s exciting photo-collages of Tokyo and nine other cities, on display through Jan. 29 along with works by other up-and-coming Japanese photographers. The exhibition is the 10th in an ongoing series on contemporary photography and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New window on how Europe viewed Japan</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2012/01/01/books/new-window-on-how-europe-viewed-japan/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=new-window-on-how-europe-viewed-japan</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:01:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Gordenker</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[UNDER EAGLE EYES: Lithographs, Drawings and Photographs From the Prussian Expedition to Japan, 1860-61, edited by Sebastian Dobson &#38; Sven Saaler. Iudicium, 2011, 392 pp., &#8364;49 (hardcover) Even casual students of Japan are likely to know something about Commodore Matthew Perry and his role in pressuring Japan to open up to American trade in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yomawari</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/12/20/reference/yomawari/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=yomawari</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 00:02:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Gordenker</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Alice, I&#8217;ve been living in Japan on and off for a few years now, and in the various places I&#8217;ve lived I&#8217;ve seen groups of senior citizens dutifully patrolling the streets. Just the other day, in my latest location, I encountered a similar patrol. One of the men was holding a pair of wooden [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nipple Fruit</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/11/15/reference/nipple-fruit/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=nipple-fruit</link>
		<comments>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/11/15/reference/nipple-fruit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 00:01:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Gordenker</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Alice, I have lived in Japan for almost a decade. Every fall I see in flower shops the most unusual and fantastic plant, and I would like to finally know what the heck it is. It is sold as cut branches that are laden with a totally implausible fruit in the brightest of yellows. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Annoying TV pop-ups</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/10/18/reference/annoying-tv-pop-ups/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=annoying-tv-pop-ups</link>
		<comments>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/10/18/reference/annoying-tv-pop-ups/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 00:01:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Gordenker</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Alice, I want to ask about something that has bugged me the entire 17 years I have lived in Japan. It irritates me so much I am tempted to replace the &#8220;heck&#8221; in &#8220;what the heck&#8221; with something considerably stronger but I will be a lady and restrain myself. Anyway, what the heck are [...]]]></description>
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