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	<title>The Japan Times &#187; Colin P.A. Jones</title>
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		<title>Fukushima and the right to responsible government</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/09/16/issues/fukushima-and-the-right-to-responsible-government/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=fukushima-and-the-right-to-responsible-government</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2013 14:45:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin P.A. Jones</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fukushima No. 1]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Nuclear energy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Shinzo Abe]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A responsibility-shirking government is ultimately the people's problem &#8212; and responsibility &#8212; just as much as the nuclear disaster and all the nation's other problems are, argues Colin P.A. Jones.]]></description>
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		<title>SOFA: an unequal treaty that trumps the Constitution?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Aug 2013 14:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin P.A. Jones</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Okinawa]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The prime minister's dogged focus on amending the American-tainted Constitution might reflect an uncomfortable unspoken truth &#8212; that it may be easier to change the Constitution than revise another document of potentially greater importance: the Status of Forces Agreement between Japan and the United States, which governs the legal status of the U.S. military presence in Japan.]]></description>
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		<title>Tweak the Constitution now, think later?</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/06/25/issues/tweak-the-constitution-now-think-later/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=tweak-the-constitution-now-think-later</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jun 2013 15:01:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin P.A. Jones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Article 9]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Article 96]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Shinzo Abe]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Whether it happens or not depends heavily on the results of the upcoming House of Councilors elections, but Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has clearly announced his intention to make amending the Constitution a campaign issue. Although his Liberal Democratic Party issued a comprehensive amendment proposal on April 28, 2012 (the 60th anniversary of the end [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mad court rush could brake or bless Abe&#8217;s vision</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 15:03:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin P.A. Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his Cabinet rush to diminish the Bank of Japan&#8217;s bothersome independence, join the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations (sort of . . .), start pouring lovely, popular concrete before the summer House of Councilors elections and (sotto voce) maybe even amend the Constitution, something amazing is happening in courts around the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do dire predictions for Japan factor in a rush for the exits?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2013 15:12:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin P.A. Jones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[3/11 2nd anniversary]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Within two hours of the massive earthquake that jolted Japan at 2:46 p.m. on March 11, 2011, the Japanese government received notice that an “Article 15 event” had occurred at the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant. ]]></description>
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		<title>Blame it on the hara: harassment vocabulary makes us all victims</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/01/28/issues/blame-it-on-the-hara-harassment-vocabulary-makes-us-all-victims/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=blame-it-on-the-hara-harassment-vocabulary-makes-us-all-victims</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2013 12:23:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin P.A. Jones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[bullying]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business ethics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Japanese language]]></category>
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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>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/01/22/issues/fixing-the-much-admired-reviled-constitution-by-breaking-it/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=fixing-the-much-admired-reviled-constitution-by-breaking-it</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2013 00:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin P.A. Jones</dc:creator>
		
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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>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2012/12/18/issues/stop-thinking-the-test-is-about-to-start/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=stop-thinking-the-test-is-about-to-start</link>
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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>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2012/06/19/issues/mishmash-jumble-of-systems-is-recipe-for-a-do-little-diet/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=mishmash-jumble-of-systems-is-recipe-for-a-do-little-diet</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2012 00:01:15 +0000</pubDate>
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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>
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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>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2012/04/24/%community_category%/poetic-but-maybe-not-justice-japan-demystified-in-haiku/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=poetic-but-maybe-not-justice-japan-demystified-in-haiku</link>
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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>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2012/02/21/issues/expectations-low-as-hague-signing-approaches/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=expectations-low-as-hague-signing-approaches</link>
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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 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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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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		<title>Not showing at a family court near you</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have seen the secret Japanese video. No, not the one where you die within a week of watching it, the other one &#8212; the one about how traumatic divorce and parental separation are for children. Titled &#8220;Kodomo no Iru Fufu ga Hanarete Kurasu Toki ni Kangaenakereba Naranai Koto&#8221; (&#8220;What Couples with Children Must Think [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How bureaucrats spell logic in Romanized Japanese</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:02:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tomorrow I will go to Sinzyuku to meet my old friends Mr. Tutida and Ms. Oisi. We will get some susi and then end up in Kabuki-tyo, drinking syouty&#363; until the sy&#363;den. What&#8217;s that you say? That is not how those Japanese words are pronounced or written? It just so happens that you are mistaken. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan&#8217;s many roads to ruin</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While there are many roads to democracy and prosperity, in Japan it is roads that may take the country in a different direction. In their latest book on construction in Japan, &#8220;Doro o do suru ka&#8221; (&#8220;What to do about the roads?&#8221;), lawyer Takayoshi Igarashi and journalist Akio Ogawa paint a bleak picture of how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Human rights &#8212; strictly personal, strictly Japanese?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Go figure. Just a few weeks after I wrote about how Japanese courts try to avoid doing anything dramatic, on June 4 the Supreme Court ruled that a section of the Nationality Law was unconstitutional. Such rulings being so rare, I steeled myself for a big helping of highfalutin&#8217; Japanese legalese and read the opinion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hard work begins once Japan signs child-abduction treaty</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:01:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If my own mailbox is any indicator, the Internet is buzzing as international family lawyers, family rights activists and others share an exciting piece of news: Japan is reportedly planning to join the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction! Perhaps Japan&#8217;s days as a haven for international parental child abduction are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grim bar system may hurt legal reforms</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Sep 2006 00:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sept. 21 is awaited with a mixture of anticipation and dread in campuses across Japan. It is the date on which results of the country&#8217;s first new bar examination are announced. How well a school&#8217;s students do on this test, which is projected to have a pass rate of about 40 percent, may have a [...]]]></description>
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