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	<title>The Japan Times &#187; Colin P.A. Jones</title>
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		<title>Blame it on the hara: harassment vocabulary makes us all victims</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2013 12:23:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin P.A. Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Japan has a new hara. No, the nice couple down the hall didn't just have a baby; according to recent news, yet another form of harassment is supposedly becoming a social problem.]]></description>
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		<title>Fixing the much-admired, reviled Constitution &#8212; by breaking it</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2013 00:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With Shinzo Abe having called Japan&#8217;s current Constitution &#8220;pathetic&#8221; (mittomonai) just a few days before taking charge of a government established under it, constitutional amendment seems likely to be on the agenda of his second go as prime minister. This should not surprise anyone, since &#8220;fixing&#8221; the charter tainted with America and defeat has been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stop thinking &#8212; the test is about to start</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2012 00:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin P.A. Jones</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I spent a beautiful Sunday in May of this year taking a national law exam. I did not pass and wasn&#8217;t expecting to: I could barely work up the energy for the 90-minute commute to the test venue in Osaka, let alone study for it. Of the 6,477 who took the exam last year, only [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mishmash jumble of systems is recipe for a do-little Diet</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2012 00:01:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin P.A. Jones</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Given the momentous fiscal and social problems Japan was facing even before Fukushima, even foreign residents &#8212; who can&#8217;t vote &#8212; may be wondering what on Earth Japan&#8217;s elected officials are doing to solve the nation&#8217;s many ills. &#8220;Not very much&#8221; is the most likely perception, though this may be less an informed view, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Much ado, but micro-important</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jun 2012 00:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin P.A. Jones</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago, as a panelist at a symposium on Japan&#8217;s accession to the Hague Convention on international child abduction, I found it hard to disguise my ire. One of the speakers was a lawyer opposed to Japan joining the convention, and who refused to even use &#8220;abduction&#8221; to discuss what she called &#8220;moving [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poetic, but maybe not justice: Japan demystified in haiku</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 00:02:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my goals in writing for The Japan Times over the years has been to try to render the seemingly arcane functioning of the Japanese legal system a bit more comprehensible to non-Japanese, non-legal types. This involves a big assumption that I understand it myself, but I have at least tried to offer up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Expectations low as Hague signing approaches</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 00:04:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several months ago I made a bet with a friend about how the Hague Convention on international child abduction will be applied after Japan finishes implementing it through domestic legislation. My bet was this: If a Japanese court ever does order the return of a child wrongfully brought or retained here, the first case will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>And then there was one?: Japan&#8217;s right royal crisis</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 00:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin P.A. Jones</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[According to the Japanese Constitution, the Emperor is the symbol of the Japanese state and the unity of the Japanese people. You could thus say it is symbolic that the Imperial household is now facing an unprecedented demographic crisis, one that may ultimately lead to a succession dilemma and possibly even a constitutional quandary. While [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Solving parental child abduction problem no piece of cake</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 00:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Way of Cake is mysterious and paradoxical. A master of the Way can make his neighbors feel they have filled themselves with tasty cake without ever cutting off a piece. The Way allows its disciple to step outside the boundaries of rational thought by partaking of cake while continuing to possess cake. The Zen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No need to know the law, but you must obey it</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 00:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin P.A. Jones</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A few months ago I met with some Western diplomats who were looking for information about Japanese law &#8212; in particular, an answer to the question, &#8220;Is parental child abduction a crime?&#8221; As international child abduction has become an increasingly sore point between Japan and other countries, foreign envoys have been making concerted efforts to [...]]]></description>
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