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	<title>The Japan Times &#187; Christopher Johnson</title>
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		<title>A swim with turtles (maybe)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Sep 2013 14:24:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Okinawa Prefecture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For snorkelers, there&#8217;s perhaps nothing better than hanging out underwater with a hawksbill sea turtle. Safer than sharks, they are graceful and beautiful, ancient and wise. But sightings are rare. Of my hundreds of snorkeling adventures, I&#8217;ve only seen turtles, from a distance, in Palau and Koh Tao in Thailand. YouTube, however, has videos of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chatting about Japan with Snowden, the NSA whistle-blower</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:06:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Johnson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CIA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Edward Snowden]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Edward Snowden, the fugitive former CIA employee and NSA contractor who leaked secrets about America&#8217;s spying operations, often hung out online with foreigners in Japan who shared his interests in anime, video games, martial arts, the stock market and the expat lifestyle. Snowden, who learned Japanese as a teenager, was a Japanophile who had longtime [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cook Islands paradise isn&#8217;t plain sailing for all</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2013 15:13:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Johnson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cook Islands]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[They span an area the size of western Europe, but the Cook Islands may seem like the ends of the Earth when viewed from Japan &#8212; an 11-hour flight away south to New Zealand, followed by a four-hour &#8220;local hop&#8221; to the capital, Avarua, on the main island of Rarotonga. Home to about 17,000 Maori, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Pacific idyll where some go to escape, others to connect</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2013 15:10:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Johnson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cook Islands]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A woman from western Japan, who calls herself &#8220;Amy,&#8221; couldn&#8217;t find paradise in Thailand, Cuba, Brazil or French Polynesia, so with the last of her &#036;300 savings she bought a one-way ticket from Tahiti to Rarotonga. Then, claiming to be penniless, she walked from the airport to the police station and asked them to shelter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Appi&#8217;s snowy joys await seekers of late-season thrills</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Apr 2013 15:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Johnson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Appi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iwate Prefecture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[skiing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With degrees in fine arts, Akiyoshi Osumi used his creative talents to coin a perfect slogan for the Appi Kogen Snow Resort: &#8220;Be Happy in Appi.&#8221; Appi, which is open for spring skiing until May 6, really is an oasis of happiness in northern Iwate Prefecture. About an hour&#8217;s drive northwest of the prefectural capital [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fukushima&#8217;s powder paradise</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2013 10:47:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Johnson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fukushima Prefecture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mount Bandai]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nekoma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Niigata Prefecture]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I seem to have the whole mountain to myself. The vast majesty of Fukushima Prefecture spreads out below me, all around. Up here, skiing on powdery snow, zigzagging through challenging moguls, it&#8217;s easy to forget about the nuclear reactors 120 km away. Say what you will about radiation, but Fukushima is no less beautiful than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>There are &#8216;snow monsters&#8217; who can help save Tohoku</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Dec 2012 00:01:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Johnson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, it&#8217;s true. Spending some money on skiing among snow monsters and soaking in hot-spring baths is a good way to help the Tohoku region of northeastern Honshu recover from the Great East Japan Earthquake of March 11, 2011, the terrible tsunami it triggered and the ongoing nuclear crisis that followed. Dating back 1,900 years, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Marshall Islands: Tropical idylls scarred like Tohoku</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jun 2012 00:01:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Johnson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bikini Atoll]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[With all its American, European and Asian cultural influences, it&#8217;s easy to forget that Japan is also an island nation in the Pacific. Japan&#8217;s connection to another Pacific nation, the Marshall Islands, hit home to this writer one Sunday morning in the fish market at Misaki harbor on the Miura Peninsula in Kanagawa Prefecture, about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paradise found in Renaissance man&#8217;s footsteps</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jun 2012 00:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Johnson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Continental Micronesia airlines operates an island-hopper run to Majuro in the Republic of the Marshall Islands via Guam, Chuuk, Pohnpei, Kosrae and Kwajalein — a great way to see fantastic scenery and sample the flavors of each airport. Descending into Majuro in the Marshall Islands, a narrow Pacific coral atoll, feels like landing on an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lone holdout&#8217;s first nuclear winter looms in Tohoku</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 00:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Johnson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[As bitter winds blow around cesium and other radioactive particles spewed from the nearby Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant&#8217;s reactors, Naoto Matsumura lights a cigarette, which he considers relatively good for his health. &#8220;I would get sick if I stopped smoking; I have a lot to worry about,&#8221; says Matsumura, 52, who reckons he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All too familiar signs of state paralysis in Thai crisis</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 00:02:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Johnson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Like the Japan tsunami, flooding in Thailand will have a global impact on the supply and price of rice, cameras, computers and cars. Yet many are wondering who is overseeing crisis management in Bangkok: fugitive former leader Thaksin Shinawatra, exiled in Dubai; or his 44-year old sister, Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, who won the July [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A heartrending drive on the rebuilt roads of Tohoku</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before the March 11 tsunami, the Miyako area of Iwate Prefecture was a beloved tourist destination, famous for the beaches of Jodogahama and a national park with majestic views of coves and shimmering Pacific waters. On March 11, an indented coastline funneled a surge of water into a monster 15 meters high in many areas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A winter wonderland</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Feb 2011 00:02:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Johnson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Here I am, taking a holiday in minus-20 Hokkaido instead of plus-20 Okinawa. I&#8217;m either losing my marbles or just a normal Canadian pining for a winter wonderland. At this season, for sure, Hokkaido can be Japan&#8217;s Siberia, a world of white where everything &#8212; from roofs to roads to parked cars and bicycles &#8212; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Catching autumn&#8217;s glory on camera</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2010/12/05/travel/catching-autumns-glory-on-camera/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=catching-autumns-glory-on-camera</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Dec 2010 00:02:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Johnson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[At this dazzling time of year, it seems that half of Japan&#8217;s population turn into photographers journeying to their favorite spots or seeking out new ones around the city as they try to capture the myriad colors of autumn leaves. Doing that, though, is not as easy as it looks, and millions go away frustrated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kujukuri: the long, long beach on Tokyo&#8217;s doorstep</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jul 2010 00:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Johnson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[If it was thousands of miles from home, I would wistfully think of this as an exotic and special place. It has almost everything I want in a seaside hangout: Empty beaches backed by pine forests, not condos; surfing waves; fishing piers; hilltop viewpoints; and family farms growing corn and watermelons. Then there are the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Healing Thailand&#8217;s broken spirit</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 May 2010 00:02:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Johnson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BANGKOK &#8212; To pacify a divided nation, Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva &#8212; blamed for a military crackdown on protesters that left more than 80 dead and 1,500 injured over two months &#8212; says Thailand needs to &#8220;heal the mind.&#8221; He could start with himself. Educated at Oxford, he has disappointed Thai intellectuals by acting like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A turning point in Thailand</title>
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		<title>Painting Tokyo red and gold</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In times past, some Native Americans believed the autumn colors were made when the Great Hunter finally shot the Bear, whose blood spilled across the landscape in the form of red leaves. In my view, as I cycle around Tokyo, the trees appear to be more like well-preserved bottles that finally let forth their red [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Freedoms on the outer limit</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s something special about places on the outer limits of great nations or continents; a sort of liberated and reflective space, away from it all, yet still connected to it. Think Alaska, Vancouver Island, the Koh Chang islands in Thailand, Xining in far western China or the pearl of Sri Lanka hanging off the neckace [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Freedoms on the outer limit</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
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