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	<title>The Japan Times &#187; David Mcneill</title>
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		<title>The year in quotes: 25 windows on the way things were in 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Dec 2012 00:01:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Mcneill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[3/11]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Election 2012]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fukushima]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Nanjing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Naoto Kan]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[press freedom]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Senkaku Islands]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shintaro Ishihara]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Takashi Kawamura]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Takeshi Kitano. Nadeshiko Japan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tepco]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Toru Hashimoto]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It was a year dominated by Japan&#8217;s spats with its most powerful neighbors, China and South Korea, over tiny specks in the sea, and by national soul-searching over nuclear power and the calamity that struck Japan in March 2011. It ended with the stunning political resurrection of the Liberal Democratic Party. In between, there were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shilling for our side over the Senkakus</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2012 00:01:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Mcneill</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Akihiro Suzuki does not think war will come, but if it does, he believes Japan will prevail. &#8220;Of course, in general military terms China is more powerful,&#8221; says the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly lawmaker. &#8220;But with the weapons and technology we have from America, we would be able to respond in a short-term, regional conflict.&#8221; Suzuki [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;The government could still save lives&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Sep 2012 00:02:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Mcneill</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In the immediate aftermath of last year&#8217;s Fukushima triple meltdown, Japan&#8217;s government and pronuclear experts scrambled to dampen public concern. Experts waved away fears about radiation, cabinet ministers scoffed at comparisons to Chernobyl, and the word &#8220;meltdown&#8221; itself was effectively scoured from the media. Some observers, however, were quick to hit the panic button. One [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rumors, lies fill void left by police in Furlong case</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jun 2012 00:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Mcneill</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It is one of the more ugly tasks in journalism: trying to extract a quote from a bereaved family after a violent death. By the time I called Nicola Furlong&#8217;s mother on May 25, she had learned that her 21-year-old daughter had been sexually assaulted and probably throttled by a stranger in a city 10,000 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rape victim marks 10 years on lonely crusade for justice</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 00:01:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Mcneill</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It surely isn&#8217;t very often that elite Japanese bureaucrats hear the words to the national anthem quoted at them &#8212; by a foreigner. Earlier this year, Australian national Catherine Fisher says she pulled the words of &#8220;Kimigayo&#8221; from her head during a frustrating meeting with officials from the ministries of defense, justice and foreign affairs. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fukushima lays bare Japanese media&#8217;s ties to top</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 00:02:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Mcneill</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Is the ongoing crisis surrounding the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant being accurately reported in the Japanese media? No, says independent journalist Shigeo Abe, who claims the authorities, and many journalists, have done a poor job of informing people about nuclear power in Japan both before and during the crisis &#8212; and that the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stories spiked despite journalism&#8217;s mission to inform</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 00:01:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Mcneill</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Olympus isn&#8217;t the only story that has been or is being ignored or squashed by powerful forces in Japan. Here are three more gems from that rich vein. Okinawa-gate In 1971, Takichi Nishiyama reported for the Mainichi Shimbun newspaper that Tokyo had agreed to secretly absorb substantial costs of the reversion of Okinawa from U.S. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stop the presses and hold the front page</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 00:01:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Mcneill</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It was perhaps the biggest financial story of postwar Japan &#8212; or it should have been.Yamaichi Securities, one of the nation&#8217;s four top brokerages, which was among the world&#8217;s six largest in the 1980s, had in 1992 started to illegally bury millions of dollars in red ink off the books, setting up dummy foreign companies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tohoku &#165; for whales?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 00:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Mcneill</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It was a comparatively minor entry in the annual, ritualized battle between pro- and anti-whalers. Japan&#8217;s whaling fleet pulled out of Shimonoseki port near Nagasaki earlier this week on its way to another controversial four-month Antarctic cull. In the fine print of the 2011 departure, however, was a PR landmine that would detonate and send [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Justice stalled in brutal death of deportee</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 00:02:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Mcneill</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Abubakar Awudu Suraj had been in Japan for over two decades when immigration authorities detained him in May 2009. The Ghanaian was told in Yokohama of his deportation to Ghana at 9:15 a.m. on March 22 last year. Six hours later he was dead, allegedly after being excessively restrained by guards. Jimmy Mubenga also died [...]]]></description>
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