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	<title>The Japan Times &#187; Edan Corkill</title>
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		<title>Camera artist casts new light on Jomon millennia</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Sep 2013 14:18:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edan Corkill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[archeology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japanese history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jomon Period]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pottery]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Jomon Period of Japanese history is so shrouded in the mists of time that any bid to fathom its secrets stretches even the usual bounds of prehistoric archeology. Yet as amateurs and experts alike have continued unearthing examples of Jomon pottery and stone tools for more than a century, the pieces of the puzzle are gradually coming together.]]></description>
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		<title>Olympic stars of the future look forward to 2020</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Sep 2013 14:26:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edan Corkill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2020 Olympics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tokyo 2020]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yokohama Athlete Club]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Thursday night was warm and clear in Yokohama. A cloudless, gradually darkening sky stretched over the 400-meter track at the Yamato Sports Center — seemingly boundless in its ability to absorb the shouts and laughter coming from the 20 boisterous young members of the Yokohama Athlete Club, who had gathered for their weekly training session. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free rent for cat lovers, Yangtze towns fall, JFK supports South Vietnam, Union sells nuclear power</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Sep 2013 14:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edan Corkill</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[100 YEARS AGO Thursday, Sept. 11, 1913 Free rent to those with no fear of cats Anyone who is not afraid of cats or knows how to drive away a great plague of feline roughs and toughs is offered the use of a house in Shibuya for a year free of rent. In so doing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lupin III still looks good at 40</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/09/05/events/lupin-iii-still-looks-good-at-40/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=lupin-iii-still-looks-good-at-40</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Sep 2013 14:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edan Corkill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kawasaki City Museum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lupin III]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lupin III — 40th Anniversary of the Anime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Manga]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Monkey Punch]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One of Japan&#8217;s most popular manga and anime series, Lupin III gets the exhibition treatment at the Kawasaki City Museum this month. &#8220;Lupin III — 40th Anniversary of the Anime&#8221; coincides with the 25th anniversary of the museum and, somewhat belatedly, the 40th anniversary of the original manga&#8217;s first anime version (which actually appeared 42 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Naoto Kan speaks out</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Aug 2013 14:30:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edan Corkill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Naoto Kan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Naoto Kan took his first steps in the world of politics around 40 years ago as a pugnacious citizen-activist, admonishing those with power as only those without it can. Though he likes to say he&#8217;s the same man now, of course there&#8217;s an irony in that. After all, in the intervening years he acquired about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Director Igarashi says quake memories still fresh</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/08/22/arts/director-igarashi-says-quake-memories-still-fresh/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=director-igarashi-says-quake-memories-still-fresh</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Aug 2013 14:03:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edan Corkill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aichi Triennale]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taro Igarashi]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Japan Times sat down with the artistic director of the Aichi Triennale, the architecture critic and historian Taro Igarashi. The theme of the triennale is &#8220;Awakening &#8212; Where are we standing? &#8212; Earth, Memory and Resurrection.&#8221; Why? I was conscious that the triennale is not a festival for Aichi Prefecture alone, but a festival [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sumida River swimmers, brides for Manchoukuo, driving chaos, PM&#8217;s Recruit incident remarks</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/17/national/sumida-river-swimmers-brides-for-manchoukuo-driving-chaos-pms-recruit-incident-remarks/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=sumida-river-swimmers-brides-for-manchoukuo-driving-chaos-pms-recruit-incident-remarks</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Aug 2013 14:16:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edan Corkill</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[100 YEARS AGO Wednesday, Aug. 6, 1913 Swimmers cool off in Tokyo&#8217;s Sumida River &#8220;O Joy! Come in and splash me!&#8221; The exhilarating shouts of boys and girls are heard all along the Sumida River, which has been turned into a continuous swimming pool by the young men and women of Tokyo, driven out of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Isobe works herald rebirth for museum</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/08/01/events/isobe-works-herald-rebirth-for-museum/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=isobe-works-herald-rebirth-for-museum</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Aug 2013 13:30:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edan Corkill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ichihara Lakeside Museum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jinyu Tei]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Naoko Kawaguchi]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Scrap and build&#8221; used to be the mantra of Japanese developers when approaching out-of-date structures. The theory was that Japanese people preferred their buildings to be in a more-or-less constant state of &#8220;newness&#8221; &#8212; a la Ise Shrine, which is rebuilt every two decades. But in the cash-strapped world of art museum management, a new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stuffed-toy savior shares secrets of his plush lifestyle</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jul 2013 14:28:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edan Corkill</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A chap doesn&#8217;t often talk about his teddy bear in public, let alone bare all to eternal cyberspace through a national newspaper. But someing so extraordinary happened to mine of late that I&#8217;ve resolved to throw caution to the wind, to defy, umm, teddiquette — and to come clean. First, a clarification: While said bear [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tokyo homeless, Olympics cancelled, medals given for kindness, Mandela&#8217;s birthday feted</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jul 2013 14:16:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edan Corkill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poor House]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wartime]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[100 YEARS AGO Wednesday, July 23, 1913 Tales of woe abound among Tokyo jobless Summer is generally a good season for employment-seekers of the laboring classes. This summer, however, there are twice as many unemployed men as usual. The Free Lodging House of Honjo, Tokyo, for instance, generally takes in about 20 lodgers nightly during [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From Hollywood to Hirohito</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2013/07/06/people/from-hollywood-to-hirohito/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=from-hollywood-to-hirohito</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jul 2013 14:30:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edan Corkill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Emperor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yoko Narahashi]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From &#8220;Empire of the Sun&#8221; to &#8220;The Last Samurai,&#8221; and from &#8220;Memoirs of a Geisha&#8221; to &#8220;Babel&#8221; &#8212; when Hollywood film directors have turned their cameras to the Land of the Rising Sun, there is one person they have insisted on having by their side: Yoko Narahashi, a casting agent, producer, sometimes director and, in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Irish poet to be focus of Yeats Day at Waseda</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jun 2013 15:01:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edan Corkill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Irish Embassy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yeats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yeats Day]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One of the first attempts to combine the literary traditions of the English and Japanese languages occurred in 1916, when Irish poet William Butler Yeats tried his hand at a noh play. The result, &#8220;At the Hawk&#8217;s Well,&#8221; tells the story of a mythological hero Cuchulain, but it&#8217;s best known for its masked protagonists. Yeats&#8217; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taiwan&#8217;s last native tribe, carrier-pigeon trumps train, STEP test launched, rock album nixed for anti-nuke lyrics</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/06/16/national/taiwans-last-native-tribe-carrier-pigeon-trumps-train-step-test-launched-rock-album-nixed-for-anti-nuke-lyrics/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=taiwans-last-native-tribe-carrier-pigeon-trumps-train-step-test-launched-rock-album-nixed-for-anti-nuke-lyrics</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jun 2013 15:10:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edan Corkill</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[100 YEARS AGOThursday, June 6, 1913 &#8216;Terrible campaign&#8217; launched in Taiwan Military operations against the tribes in northeastern Taiwan were commenced at dawn yesterday. The government forces consist of 3,000 men, of the police and native troops. Mr. Uchida, Chief of the Civil Administration, is on the scene. General Sakuma, Governor-General of Taiwan, will be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ginza galleries to cater to late-night art fans</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jun 2013 15:01:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edan Corkill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gallery Tamenaga]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Garo no Yakai]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kobayashi Gallery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nichido Gallery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nihonga]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shiseido Gallery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shukado]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tokyo Gallery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Western art]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Businessmen and women will have an easier chance to peruse some of the best art galleries in Tokyo&#8217;s Ginza district this week, as 25 of the establishments extend their opening hours for an event dubbed &#8220;Garo no Yakai&#8221; (&#8220;Gallery Night Party&#8221;). Some of Ginza&#8217;s top galleries &#8212; including Western art specialists Nichido Gallery and Gallery [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hibiya Park illuminations, Japan’s first mosque, ‘Vigorous’ Mount Fuji stymies relocation, minister resigns over war-guilt denial</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/05/19/national/hibiya-park-illuminations-japans-first-mosque-vigorous-mount-fuji-stymies-relocation-minister-resigns-over-war-guilt-denial/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=hibiya-park-illuminations-japans-first-mosque-vigorous-mount-fuji-stymies-relocation-minister-resigns-over-war-guilt-denial</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 15:10:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edan Corkill</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[100 YEARS AGO Wednesday, May 14, 1913 Illuminations reap a tidy profit for city Tokyo city has withdrawn the illuminations at Hibiya which it made for the benefit of the admirers of the park&#8217;s azaleas. The plan proved very successful, greatly benefitting the city treasury. According to the investigations made by the Municipal Electric Bureau, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Join the crowd at Sanja festival</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 15:02:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edan Corkill</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The story goes that precisely 1,385 years ago, two brothers, Hinokuma Hamanari and Hinokuma Takenari, were fishing in Sumida River when they discovered in their nets an unlikely object: a statue of the Bodhisattva Kannon. Buddhism itself was still little known in Japan back then, but that didn&#8217;t deter a local landowner named Hajino Nakatomo, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Long-running festival brings flowery floats to Fukuoka this weekend</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 15:01:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edan Corkill</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[One of Japan&#8217;s oldest citizen-run events hits the city of Fukuoka this long-weekend, as the annual Dontaku Festival winds its way into town. It was back in 1179 that the merchants of Hakata (now a central district of the city of Fukuoka) first organized the event, arranging for the three gods of fortune (Fukurokuju, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anti-Alien Bill protested, controlling the Western Pacific, Daibutsu climbers arrested, land prices soar</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/04/21/national/anti-alien-bill-protested-controlling-the-western-pacific-daibutsu-climbers-arrested-land-prices-soar/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=anti-alien-bill-protested-controlling-the-western-pacific-daibutsu-climbers-arrested-land-prices-soar</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2013 15:01:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edan Corkill</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[100 YEARS AGO Tuesday, April 8, 1913 Japan protests U.S. state&#8217;s &#8216;anti-aliens&#8217; bill A New York dispatch of April 5 says that, in regard to the bill before the California Legislature prohibiting aliens ineligible for citizenship from owning land and holding a lease, Viscount (Sutemi) Chinda, Japanese ambassador at Washington, presented an unofficial protest to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shigeru Ban: &#8216;People&#8217;s architect&#8217; combines permanence and paper</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Apr 2013 15:30:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edan Corkill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arata Isozaki]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[architect]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[architecture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frank Gehry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frank Lloyd Wright]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shigeru Ban]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Generally speaking, an architect’s style is defined by particular forms or shapes. There’s Frank Lloyd Wright’s prominent horizontal lines, for instance; Le Corbusier’s simple white boxes; or, more recently, the deliberately abstract masses of Frank Gehry — of Guggenheim Bilbao fame. ]]></description>
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		<title>Tokyo art blossoms in spring</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 15:20:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edan Corkill</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems that this year everything is coming together for the Tokyo art world, literally. Ever since Art Fair Tokyo moved from its regular autumn timing to spring, various other art events have bloomed around the same cherry-blossom-touched season &#8212; with rival art fair G-Tokyo and outdoor art celebration Roppongi Art Night being the most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yokohama conflagration, National Mobilization Bill debated, mines removed, five-day working week achieved</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/03/17/national/yokohama-conflagration-national-mobilization-bill-debated-mines-removed-five-day-working-week-achieved/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=yokohama-conflagration-national-mobilization-bill-debated-mines-removed-five-day-working-week-achieved</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Mar 2013 15:26:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edan Corkill</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[100 YEARS AGOSaturday, March 8, 1913 Yokohama conflagration Another big fire swept through Yokohama early yesterday morning, resulting in the destruction of about 300 houses. It originated on the premises of Magosaku Nishioka in Fukutomi-cho [now part of Naka-ku] about half-past three when it was blowing a gale. The flames spread with great rapidity and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How an American collector brought Jakuchu to Tohoku</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/03/17/arts/how-an-american-collector-brought-jakuchu-to-tohoku/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=how-an-american-collector-brought-jakuchu-to-tohoku</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Mar 2013 15:15:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edan Corkill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2nd 3/11 anniversary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ito Jakuchu]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Including loans from each of Japan's six national museums as well as the Imperial Household Agency, "Jakuchu's Here!" represents to a gift from Japan's art establishment to an audience that it has neglected for decades. ]]></description>
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		<title>Mother Farm hopes to attract weary city dwellers to the countryside</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2013 15:06:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edan Corkill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chiba]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[farm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hisakichi Maeda]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hisakichi Maeda is best known as the founder of the Sankei Shimbun and developer of the Tokyo Tower. But his interests spread to more down-to-earth enterprises, too. In 1962, four years after opening what was then Japan&#8217;s highest structure, Maeda opened a farm on a 250-hectare plot of land at Kanozan on Chiba Prefecture&#8217;s Boso [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Awakening the desire for a home with personality</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2013/03/06/lifestyle/awakening-the-desire-for-a-home-with-personality/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=awakening-the-desire-for-a-home-with-personality</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2013 15:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edan Corkill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[architecture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[House Vision]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kenya Hara]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Bored with run-of-the-mill suburban Japanese apartments? Perhaps putting the grand piano in the center of the living room would improve the situation. ]]></description>
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		<title>Next stop Kairakuen in bloom</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 15:12:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edan Corkill</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[There is no better time than February and March to visit Kairakuen, the picturesque garden just south of Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture, that was built in the 1840s by the seventh daimyo of the Mito clan, Tokugawa Nariaki. For starters, the 3,000-plus plum trees that Nariaki ordered planted throughout the 13-hectare garden are in full bloom, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Writer Donald Richie dies at 88</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 15:05:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edan Corkill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Donald Richie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japanese cinema]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Long-term Japan resident, writer and critic Donald Richie, who through dozens of books and articles published from the late 1940s until the last decade helped introduce Japanese film and culture to the world, passed away in Tokyo on Tuesday, according to his long-term editor, Leza Lowitz. He was 88. Richie, who was born in Lima, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tokyo Station nears completion, Hitler lauds Japan, high-schools surge, Constitution to keep Article 9, PM declares</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2013 15:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edan Corkill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hitler]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[100 YEARS AGO Sunday, Feb. 2, 1913 Tokyo Central station nears completion The Tokyo Central Railway Station, now under construction at Eiraku-cho, Kojimachi Ward [a now-defunct ward spanning much of present-day Chiyoda Ward], will, when completed next year, make one of the finest structures of the metropolis. The station is expected to be ready for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Art disaster turns out to have a silver lining</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/02/17/arts/art-disaster-turns-out-to-have-a-silver-lining/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=art-disaster-turns-out-to-have-a-silver-lining</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2013 15:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edan Corkill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conservation-restoration]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A dozen paintings hang from the white walls of a gallery at the Museum of Modern Art in Hayama, Kanagawa Prefecture. Mostly prewar works by artists involved in the Proletarian movement, who focused on depictions of factory and farm laborers, the paintings are like many others on display at the museum — except that alongside [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lantern festival to put spotlight on Nagasaki&#8217;s Chinese neighborhood</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/02/08/events/lantern-festival-to-put-spotlight-on-nagasakis-chinese-neighborhood/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=lantern-festival-to-put-spotlight-on-nagasakis-chinese-neighborhood</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2013 15:13:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edan Corkill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chinese New Year]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recent diplomatic squabbles between Japan and China have dampened enthusiasm around many bilateral events, but it seems nothing can dull the glow of the Nagasaki Lantern Festival, which will be held as always during the Chinese New Year. Commencing Feb. 10 and continuing for two weeks, the festival will feature its usual 15,000-plus paper lanterns, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You read about them here first</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/01/27/national/history/you-read-about-them-here-first/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=you-read-about-them-here-first</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2013 16:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edan Corkill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Akio Morita]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Akira Kurosawa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[digital archive]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Donald Richie]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[journalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michiko Shoda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[newspaper]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Sorge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shigeo Nagashima]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shigeru Yoshida]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ever since 1897 The Japan Times has reported daily in English on people, places and goings-on in and beyond this country. During those 116 years, our articles have often included information that never made it into the Japanese-language press — as in 1934, when the Society Page carried an interview with a German journalist named [...]]]></description>
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