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	<title>The Japan Times &#187; Alisa Yamasaki</title>
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		<title>Imany makes peace with her voice on debut album</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Sep 2013 14:05:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alisa Yamasaki</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[French music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Imany]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Shape of a Broken Heart]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As a model, Nadia Mladjao would have seen all there is in the world of luxury and excess. But the 27-year-old singer, better known as Imany, keeps it simple with her guitar on her debut album, &#8220;The Shape of a Broken Heart.&#8221; &#8220;What I really wanted was for my album to be timeless,&#8221; she says. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When Crossfaith tells you to rock: you listen</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Aug 2013 14:16:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alisa Yamasaki</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Apocalyze]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crossfaith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[J-metal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kenta Koie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[metalcore]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Vocalist Kenta Koie looks at me square in the eye and says, &#8220;We want to be the biggest band in the world.&#8221; That band is Crossfaith, a metalcore band who will release its new album, &#8220;Apocalyze,&#8221; in Japan on Sept. 4. At a time when Japanese bands seem content in being popular at home, Koie&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>As sun sets on summer, head to Bali festival</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/08/22/events/as-sun-sets-on-summer-head-to-bali-festival/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=as-sun-sets-on-summer-head-to-bali-festival</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Aug 2013 13:35:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alisa Yamasaki</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Balinese culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Balinese food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Enoshima]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Enoshima Bali Sunset]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Bad news for some (kids) and good news for others (parents), summer vacation is down to its final weeks. If you haven&#8217;t traveled overseas or gone to the beach yet, visiting Enoshima this weekend will let you enjoy a little bit of both. Enoshima will attempt to transform into a miniature Bali for two days, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Shinjuku Creators Festa 2013&#8242;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Aug 2013 14:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alisa Yamasaki</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[mixed media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shinjuku Creators Festa]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Tokyo celebrates all things creative at the &#8220;Shinjuku Creators Festa,&#8221; a 17-day art event being held around the city&#8217;s Shinjuku Station. World-famous names, such as Yayoi Kusama and CG-artist Yoichiro Kawaguchi will be displaying works, while student submissions, including film projects and installations, are also being featured. For those who want to participate, there will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Exhibition of 92-Year-Old Photojournalist Kikujiro Fukushima&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Aug 2013 13:59:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alisa Yamasaki</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Kikujiro Fukushima]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Newspark]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[photography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[photojournalism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Kikujiro Fukuyama has been a photojournalist for 67 years and is still active at age 92. He first earned critical acclaim in 1960 for his work that followed the lives of a Hiroshima family for a decade, revealing the lasting effects and consequences of the atomic bomb. Since then, he has documented the history of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japanese musicians to present their spin on samba at Brazilian festival</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/08/15/events/japanese-musicians-to-present-their-spin-on-samba-at-brazilian-festival/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=japanese-musicians-to-present-their-spin-on-samba-at-brazilian-festival</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Aug 2013 14:01:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alisa Yamasaki</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Banda Girassol]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brasil Culture Festival]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigrant's Bossa Band]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Silvio Anastacio]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Tokyo&#8217;s Yoyogi Park is known for its various cultural festivals and one of the most popular is its Brazilian one. This weekend, though, people in Yokohama will get their chance to samba. The three-day Brasil Culture Festival (which uses the Portuguese spelling of Brazil) will take place at Yokohama&#8217;s Red Brick Warehouse and focus on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Medieval Japanese Art&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/08/14/arts/medieval-japanese-art/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=medieval-japanese-art</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Aug 2013 14:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alisa Yamasaki</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[educational]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In medieval Japan &#8212; the Kamakura Period to the Muromachi Period (1193-1573) &#8212; power shifted from the nobility to the warrior class. Revealing the influence of this political disruption, this exhibition focuses on artwork produced at that time, much of which referenced Chinese Zen culture. On show are calligraphy scripts, picture scrolls and screens by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Aichi Triennale 2013&#8242;</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/08/14/arts/aichi-triennale-2013/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=aichi-triennale-2013</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Aug 2013 14:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alisa Yamasaki</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aichi Triennale]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mixed media]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The theme of this second Aichi Triennale is &#8220;Awakening &#8212; Where Are We Standing?&#8221; and it aims to make us rethink the role of art as Japan continues to recover from the Great East Japan Earthquake and following disasters. Works by various artists from around the world are being displayed in several museums and outdoor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Mitsuaki Iwago:  Cats and Lions&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Aug 2013 14:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alisa Yamasaki</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mitsuaki Iwago]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[photography]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The prolific animal photographer Mitsuaki Iwago is currently showing many of his well-known wildlife images at the Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum. For this Tokyo exhibition, however, he divulges a specific passion for cats, both wild and domestic. Iwago compares city strays and pets with their feline cousins lions, the &#8220;kings&#8221;of the jungle, by placing similar [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;The Hakutoro Collection: The Grace of Ancient Chinese Ceramics&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Aug 2013 14:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alisa Yamasaki</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ceramics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chinese ceramics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hakutoro]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Art collector Kinji Usato, also known as Hakutoro, shares an expansive selection of Chinese ceramics for this show at The Museum of Oriental Ceramics. Ninety works, spanning 5,000 years of Chinese ceramics from the Neolithic age to the Qing Dynasty, from his personal collection will be on display. Usato&#8217;s own knowledge of East Asian art [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Look at Nara in a new light during To-kae</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Aug 2013 13:50:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alisa Yamasaki</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[candles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hill fire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kofukuji]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nara Park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[To-kae]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Todaiji]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Nara, an ancient capital of Japan, is known for its changing beauty throughout the seasons. If you think you&#8217;ve seen the city at its best blanketed in cherry blossoms or autumn leaves, you probably haven&#8217;t seen it during the To-kae Festival. The Nara To-kae is an event during which historical sites in the Nara Park [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Mitsuaki Iwago&#8217;s Photo Exhibition &#8220;Animal Family&#8221;&#8216;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Aug 2013 08:09:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alisa Yamasaki</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mitsuaki Iwago]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[photography]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Prominent wildlife photographer Mitsuaki Iwago has been documenting animals more than 40 years, with some of his work being featured on the cover of National Geographic magazine. Based around the themes of Family and Connection, this show presents around 200 images &#8212; from African lions and Antarctic penguins to more familiar domestic cats and dogs. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;The 15th Entertainment Art Exhibition&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Aug 2013 08:07:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alisa Yamasaki</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[mixed media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nelson Mandela]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Palace Hotel Tokyo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shinzo Abe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Takeshi Kitano]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The first &#8220;Entertainment Art Exhibition&#8221; began as a charity project in 1999, and it has held exhibitions in museums and cultural centers around Japan ever since. For its 15th year, the exhibition aims to help support areas recovering from the Great East Japan Earthquake by displaying works based on &#8220;Human Dignity,&#8221; a theme to show [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fantasy goes on display at Nebuta Festival</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/08/01/events/fantasy-goes-on-display-at-nebuta-festival/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=fantasy-goes-on-display-at-nebuta-festival</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Aug 2013 13:30:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alisa Yamasaki</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nebuta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nebuta Festival]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Although staying at home in the air conditioning is tempting in this sweltering weather, if you&#8217;re here for the summer you might as well embrace the heat and sweat it out with everyone else at a festival. The Nebuta Festival is held in Aomori Prefecture and lasts five days. During that time, huge floats that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;ICC Kids Program 2013 &#8220;AR Museum&#8221; AKAMATSU Masayuki + ARART Project&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/07/31/arts/icc-kids-program-2013-ar-museum-akamatsu-masayuki-arart-project/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=icc-kids-program-2013-ar-museum-akamatsu-masayuki-arart-project</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Jul 2013 14:14:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alisa Yamasaki</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[augmented reality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NTT Intercommunications Center]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The latest video games blur the line between the real and the virtual by integrating the user&#8217;s environment with game-play. This use of augmented reality is the theme of &#8220;AR Museum,&#8221; an exhibition aimed at engaging children with technology. Typically, augmented reality projects virtual images onto a real surface viewed through the screen of a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Evangelion Exhibition&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Jul 2013 14:13:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alisa Yamasaki</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evangelion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Matsuya Ginza]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The hit anime series &#8220;Neon Genesis Evangelion&#8221; has expanded its franchise far and wide since it was first aired in 1995, to include films, novels, comic books and plenty of merchandising. In anticipation of the final of its current film series, Matsuya Ginza is holding an exhibition of more than 300 original sketches and storyboards [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Film, music and Moomins: events at Setouchi Triennale 2013</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/07/29/general/film-music-and-moomins-events-at-setouchi-triennale-2013/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=film-music-and-moomins-events-at-setouchi-triennale-2013</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jul 2013 14:09:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alisa Yamasaki</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Setouchi Triennale]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Though Setouchi is often referred to as an "art festival," there are plenty of other events taking place across the islands, including lectures, theater performances and concerts.]]></description>
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		<title>Recommendations for Setouchi Triennale island hoppers</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jul 2013 14:07:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alisa Yamasaki</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Haruka Kojin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philipp Artus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ryo Toyofuku]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seizo Tajima]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Setouchi Triennale]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Takashi Nishibori]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wng Wen-Chih]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This year more than 150 new artworks are being introduced at the Setouchi Triennale, making a total of around 200 pieces in the islands' collection. ]]></description>
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		<title>Car event revs up U.S. spirit</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/07/25/events/car-event-revs-up-u-s-spirit/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=car-event-revs-up-u-s-spirit</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jul 2013 14:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alisa Yamasaki</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[car show]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cars]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Datsun]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fuji Speedway]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harley Davidson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Super American Festival]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Whether you took your first date out in a Ford or a Toyota, car enthusiasts of any nationality should head over to this Sunday&#8217;s Super American Festival in Shizuoka. The festival, now in its 21st year, is a day of drag racing, car shows and live music all with a focus on a classic American [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Flowers in Bloom: The Culture of Gardening in Edo&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/07/24/arts/flowers-in-bloom-the-culture-of-gardening-in-edo/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=flowers-in-bloom-the-culture-of-gardening-in-edo</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jul 2013 14:13:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alisa Yamasaki</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Edo Tokyo Museum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[educational]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gardening]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Japan has a long history of gardening, but the culture truly blossomed during the peace and stability of the Edo Period (1603-1867). As summer kicks in, the Edo Tokyo Museum is showcasing Ukiyo-e prints, screens and guidebooks related to the art of gardening and floristry. Beginning with 19th-century Scottish botanist Robert Fortune&#8217;s impression of Japan&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Hung Yi: Happy Animal Party&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/07/24/arts/hung-yi-happy-animal-party/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=hung-yi-happy-animal-party</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jul 2013 14:12:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alisa Yamasaki</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hakone Open Air Museum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hung Yi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sculpture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is the first solo exhibition in Japan of Taiwanese artist Hung Yi, who is known for his colorful sculptures of people and animals. Hung&#8217;s work fills three gallery spaces with some of the pieces also on display outdoors. His animated and personified interpretations of animals are based on symbols that, in Taiwan, are traditionally [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Works by Soga Shoh-haku and the Flowers of Middle and Pre-Modern Age Art&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/07/24/arts/works-by-soga-shoh-haku-and-the-flowers-of-middle-and-pre-modern-age-art/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=works-by-soga-shoh-haku-and-the-flowers-of-middle-and-pre-modern-age-art</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jul 2013 14:10:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alisa Yamasaki</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nara Prefectural Museum of Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nihonga]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Soga Shohaku]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The 18th-century Japanese painter Soga Shohaku is particularly known for eerie images of demons and ghouls rendered in brushwork reminiscent of Muromachi Period (1338-1573) works. The Nara Prefectural Museum celebrates its 40th anniversary this summer by displaying its collection of middle and pre-modern Japanese art alongside Soga&#8217;s large-scale ink wash works. Paintings, prints and crafts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Restaurant tour to provide diners with a taste of Shimokitazawa</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/07/18/events/restaurant-tour-to-provide-diners-with-a-taste-of-shimokitazawa/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=restaurant-tour-to-provide-diners-with-a-taste-of-shimokitazawa</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jul 2013 14:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alisa Yamasaki</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[all-you-can-eat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Machi Perori]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shimokitazawa]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine eating all you want at a restaurant and then walking out the door without paying &#8212; only to simply head to another restaurant for more food. I&#8217;m not recommending a dine-and-dash situation, it&#8217;s an event in Tokyo this weekend. This Sunday, visitors to an all-you-can-eat event called Machi Perori in the capital&#8217;s Shimokitazawa neighborhood [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Fujiko F. Fujio 80th Anniversary Exhibition&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/07/17/arts/fujiko-f-fujio-80th-anniversary-exhibition/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=fujiko-f-fujio-80th-anniversary-exhibition</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jul 2013 14:02:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alisa Yamasaki</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Doraemon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fujiko F. Fujio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tokyo Tower]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Tokyo Tower is celebrating the 80th anniversary of Hiroshi Fujimoto, better known as Fujiko F. Fujio, one half of the cartoonist duo Fujiko Fujio, who created the popular mechanical cat character Doraemon. The tower&#8217;s exhibition features some of Fujimoto&#8217;s most famous works, including Perman and Esper Mami. Original drafts of his cartoons, as well as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Art Arch Hiroshima 2013&#8242;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jul 2013 14:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alisa Yamasaki</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hiroshima]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Isamu Noguchi]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Three museums in Hiroshima Prefecture &#8212; the Hiroshima Prefectural Art Museum, the Hiroshima Museum of Art and the Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art &#8212; are joining forces this summer to hold &#8220;Art Arch Hiroshima,&#8221; a set of exhibitions, each based on the theme of &#8220;peace and hope.&#8221; As institutions that supported Hiroshima&#8217;s cultural recovery [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Contact Gonzo explores  our animal instincts</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jul 2013 14:08:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alisa Yamasaki</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Improvisation group contact Gonzo will collaborate with Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media on Aug. 24-26 to present &#8220;Hey you, ask the animals,&#8221; an outdoor tour that encourages participants to create their own trails through the same kind of instinctive movements an animal would make. &#8220;I think even if it&#8217;s just for half a day, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nishio takes apparel approach to art</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jul 2013 14:03:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alisa Yamasaki</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Yoshinari Nishio is one of the winners of the &#8220;Life by Media&#8221; competition at Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media (YCAM) and is currently displaying his project, &#8220;Pubrobe,&#8221; there until Sept. 1. It&#8217;s an atypical piece, a station where people lend and borrow clothes for free. &#8220;I wanted to create a public wardrobe where people share [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Living National Treasure, Matsui Kosei: A Retrospective&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/07/10/arts/living-national-treasure-matsui-kosei-a-retrospective/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=living-national-treasure-matsui-kosei-a-retrospective</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jul 2013 14:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alisa Yamasaki</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ceramics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kosei Matsui]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Living National Treasure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Otani Museum]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Kosei Matsui, a designated living national treasure, fused traditional techniques with his own creative expression to craft beautiful ceramics. To commemorate a decade since his passing, this exhibition showcases some of the finest examples of Matsui&#8217;s work alongside the tools that he used and some photographs of the artist. Matsui was a master of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Play&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/07/10/arts/play/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=play</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jul 2013 14:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alisa Yamasaki</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Kyoto National Museum]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This exhibition focuses on recreation in ancient Japan. More than 100 artifacts from the Kyoto National Museum&#8217;s collection are being displayed, categorized under nine types of &#8220;play,&#8221; such as festivals, indoor games, children&#8217;s toys, and song and dance. Artifacts include toys and board games that once belonged to Japanese nobility, as well as prints and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Yokai: Demons, Folklore Creatures and GeGeGe no Kitaro&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/07/03/arts/yokai-demons-folklore-creatures-and-gegege-no-kitaro/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=yokai-demons-folklore-creatures-and-gegege-no-kitaro</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jul 2013 14:04:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alisa Yamasaki</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mitsui Memorial Museum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mixed media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[yokai]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In collaboration with broadcasters NHK, the Mitsui Memorial Museum continues its annual summer exhibition series with an exploration of the history of the ghosts and demons of Japanese folklore: the yokai. Through an extensive collection of noh masks, handscrolls, ukiyo-e (woodblock prints) and more, the exhibition spans the history of yokai from the Middle Ages [...]]]></description>
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