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	<title>The Japan Times &#187; Ashley Thompson</title>
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		<title>Give sufficient notice when breaking an employment contract</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2013 12:24:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashley Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<title>Myriad options for studying Japanese in the sticks</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashley Thompson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Reader JA is seeking a Japanese language school in the countryside here for his 18-year-old son. &#8220;He would like to live in rural Japan and study Japanese for three or four months, and then ski Japan&#8217;s famous powder,&#8221; he writes. &#8220;Is there any resource or direction you can point us to?&#8221; Most of the language [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sites for J-footy fans; variable service at Softbank</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Dec 2012 00:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashley Thompson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In response to our Oct. 23 column, &#8221; &#8216;Prenups&#8217; uncommon but doable; aid for avid J. League fans,&#8221; some of our readers wrote in with their favorite Japan soccer resources. One popular suggestion was the Rising Sun News, a site that covers all aspects of football in Japan, which you can find at www.the-rising-sun-news.com/news. Their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Softbank&#8217;s policies on foreign customers hard to pin down</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2012 00:01:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashley Thompson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Some of our non-Japanese readers are wondering why, when trying to sort out a phone and contract with Softbank, they often seem to be subject to different rules than Japanese customers &#8212; and even fellow foreign residents. BJ writes: &#8220;When getting an iPhone at Softbank, in my experience, a foreigner must pay outright for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Softbank&#8217;s policies on foreign customers hard to pin down</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2012 00:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashley Thompson</dc:creator>
		
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		<title>Ink doesn&#8217;t always cause a stink at the onsen</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2012 00:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashley Thompson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In response to our Nov. 6 column (&#8220;If you need to bring drugs to Japan, sort out the paperwork &#8212; or else&#8221;), regarding how to find tattoo-friendly onsen, a few readers wrote in with their public bathing experiences. &#8220;Apart from private baths as you mention,&#8221; suggested SA, &#8220;one obvious solution would be to go to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Occupants can suggest a buyout, but final word lies with landlords</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2012 00:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reader AP asked how house and land prices are decided in Japan. &#8220;If a person has lived in a house for over 40 years without any type of contract and either the landlord wants to sell or the tenant wants to buy the land and house, how is the price determined? Is there a special [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If you need to bring drugs to Japan, sort out the paperwork &#8212; or else</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2012 00:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reader BM wants to know if morphine can be brought into Japan legally, and if having a tattoo would prevent her from visiting bathing facilities. She writes: &#8220;Due to certain health issues that cause chronic pain, I&#8217;ve been on a prescription of morphine for many years. I read somewhere that because morphine is a controlled [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Prenups&#8217; uncommon but doable; aid for avid J. League fans</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2012 00:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lana is planning to get married in Japan and wants to know if it&#8217;s possible to arrange a prenuptial agreement. &#8220;I am about to get married to a Japanese national and would like to inquire about &#8216;prenup&#8217; agreements in Japan,&#8221; she writes. &#8220;Are they upheld by the court? If we were to write up our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Retirees can be rehired, but often under worse conditions</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2012 00:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reader PW teaches at an international school in Tokyo and wants to know about Japan&#8217;s retirement laws: &#8220;My school says the retirement age is 60. They will let you keep teaching until age 65, but during that time you lose all retirement pay and raises are frozen. At 65 the teacher must retire. Is there [...]]]></description>
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