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	<title>The Japan Times &#187; Edan Corkill</title>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
		<category><![CDATA[Ishinomaki]]></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>
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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>
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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>
		<category><![CDATA[Douglas MacArthur]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eiko Ishioka]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[journalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michiko Shoda]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Richard Sorge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shigeo Nagashima]]></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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		<title>Man survives train fall, redistribution of resources Japan&#8217;s mission, GSDF adopts local guns, chandelier falls</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2013 10:45:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edan Corkill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chiang Kai-shek]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sumitomo Heavy Industries]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[100 YEARS AGO Wednesday, Jan. 29, 1913 Man survives train fall Tamejiro Kawai, aged 48, a milk-hall keeper in Yamashita-cho, Yokohama, while going by rail from Tokyo to Yokohama a little after midnight Jan. 27, fell between the cars. A by-stander sounded the alarm, the engineer stopped the train, and an examination was made. Upon [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Japan needs to do</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edan Corkill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arinobu Fukuhara]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dave Spector]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Futoshi Toba]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hideki Noda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kiyoshi Kurokawa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lin Kobayashi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Noriko Hama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tetsuya Kumakawa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Toyo Ito]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yusuke Iseya]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With its economy spluttering, large parts of its northeastern region still devastated by the effects of the mammoth Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011 — and releases of radioactive materials that followed — its population shrinking and aging at unprecedented rates and its citizens despairing of dysfunctional politics, Japan&#8217;s entry into a new Year of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yokocho offers up a bar crawl</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2013 00:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edan Corkill</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;No nightlife in Tokyo? Wrong!&#8221; So says the website of the Tokyo Convention and Visitors Bureau and, to prove its point, it is holding a new event, Tokyo Yokocho Week, which commences Jan. 15. The event, which despite its name actually runs for two months through March 15, sees a group of drinking establishments nestled [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Frederik Schodt: pop culture ambassador to the world</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jan 2013 00:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edan Corkill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Astro Boy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frederik L. Schodt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Osamu Tezuka]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[robot technology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Quick quiz: Who was the first Japanese civilian to be issued a passport? If your mind is drifting in the direction of a businessman who might have availed himself of an early opportunity to travel abroad in the mid-1860s, when the government first permitted such things, think again. It was a circus performer named Sumidagawa [...]]]></description>
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