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		<title>Trying to get things done in the wake of 3/11</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Mar 2013 15:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Great East Japan Earthquake]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Two years have passed since the magnitude-9 Great East Japan Earthquake of March 11, 2011, the devastating tsunami it triggered and the disgraceful and deadly fiasco at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant that followed.]]></description>
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		<title>All aglow with the &#8216;water of life&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2013 15:40:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1983, I talked myself into a marvelous job with a Japanese magazine. I set off in the early summer, when the days would be long and the nights short, to tour around Scotland with cameraman Moriyama Touru.]]></description>
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		<title>Happy new Year of the Snake</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jan 2013 00:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before long now, coming hot on the tail of a Year of the Dragon, it will be a Year of the Snake in the Chinese zodiac; a year that&#8217;s supposed to be lucky. Obviously, though, you shouldn&#8217;t push your luck with any snakes you happen to meet up with at any time &#8212; especially conniving [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Horse power helps bring light to a national forest&#8217;s gloom</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Dec 2012 00:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you drive, ride or fly over Japan, you might note that a very large part of the country is covered with trees. If you&#8217;re traveling in autumn or early winter, you might also note that much of the forested land is in uniform patches and swaths of dense, dark green, or perhaps a faint [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Breaking new ground with our Tohoku school in the woods</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Nov 2012 00:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Oct. 6, 2012, I took part in a Ji-chin-sai (Shinto ground-breaking ceremony) in the Nobiru area of Higashi Matsushima City in Miyagi Prefecture. Standing with me before an altar constructed in a wooded part of the Omokura Valley was Takahashi Yuugo, a volunteer who had been cutting trees and making steps down a steep [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Minamata: a saga of suffering and hope</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Oct 2012 00:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The last job I had that paid me a real salary was with the Canadian government&#8217;s Environmental Protection Service in the mid 1970s. Back then, as an Emergency Officer responsible for the Pacific west coast and British Columbia, I had a very fine office in Vancouver, with a view of the inner harbor, Stanley Park [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Goldenglow may be a treat for the Cherokees, but it&#8217;s a pest for Old Nic!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Sep 2012 00:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Summertime here in northern Nagano is very pleasant, quite unlike the muggy ovens of the big cities. This year, after living here for 32 years, I was persuaded to install a fan. We certainly don&#8217;t have a cooler. At night, or while working in my study, I leave the windows open to let in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Easy-money stream scheme risks a torrent of wrath</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Aug 2012 00:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A watercourse runs between our Afan Trust woods and a national forest up here in the northern Nagano Prefecture hills &#8212; passing, for just a few hundred meters, through our property as well. Old-timers tell me the watercourse was built sometime during the Edo Period (1603-1867), and although nobody knows exactly when, it still wonderfully [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A lesson in respecting river life</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jul 2012 00:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently had the pleasure of my eldest daughter, Miwako, coming to stay at my Kurohime home in the Nagano Prefecture hills together with her partner, Don McCubbing, and their 4-year old twin daughters Aila and Zanti. Miwako and Don met when she was coordinating a television documentary I did for the Hokkaido Broadcasting Company [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Long journey home for a soldier-journalist</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jun 2012 00:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MARCH FORTH, by Trevor and Debbie Greene. Harper and Collins, 2012, 272 pp., &#36;29.00 (hardcover) On March 4, 2006, a Canadian patrol led by Capt. Kevin Schamuhn was on security operations in the Gumbad Valley, in the Shah Wali Koi District, an area known to be a hotbed of Taliban activity. The patrol was a [...]]]></description>
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