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	<title>The Japan Times &#187; Gregory Clark</title>
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		<title>Education miracles in remote Japan</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2013 15:05:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gregory Clark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Akita International University]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mineo Nakajima]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It will be hard finding a replacement for the late Dr. Mineo Nakajima, who oversaw the development of a prestigious university in Akita Prefecture.]]></description>
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		<title>Japan&#8217;s leaders must see the need for sustaining a fiscal Big Bang</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jan 2013 16:14:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gregory Clark</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[With Japan&#8217;s stock market surging even before Prime Minister Shinzo Abe unveiled his plans for economic stimulus, we would have expected the usual anti-stimulus critics to be silent, at least for a while. But no. Already we hear the usual complaints &#8212; more printing of money, more public debt, more baramake (waste) and so on. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan&#8217;s university education crisis</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2012 00:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gregory Clark</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Education minister Makiko Tanaka has apologized for trying to cancel approvals given by her ministry bureaucrats for three institutions seeking to operate as fully fledged four-year universities providing undergraduate degrees. But should she have apologized? There is a crisis in Japanese tertiary education. Student numbers decline while the number of approved universities increases relentlessly &#8212; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Remembering Japan&#8217;s &#8216;deserters&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2012 00:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gregory Clark</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Obon festival celebrated on Aug. 15 in many parts of Japan marks the alleged release of ghosts from past mythical sufferings. The Aug. 15 anniversary of Japan&#8217;s 1945 defeat also gives Japan&#8217;s dwindling band of progressive TV program producers freedom to confront the ghosts of Japan&#8217;s militaristic past. NHK excelled itself this year with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Economics of austerity don&#8217;t add up</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2012/08/15/commentary/economics-of-austerity-dont-add-up/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=economics-of-austerity-dont-add-up</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2012 00:03:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gregory Clark</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Do Europe&#8217;s budget-cutting austerity-minded planners understand simple math? They say they have to embrace austerity policies to reduce excessive national debt. But those policies inevitably cut tax revenues more than they cut spending. National debt increases rather than decreases. Worse, recovery from the economic downturns they create then forces them to ease the original spending [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reforming Japan&#8217;s universities</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2012 00:01:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gregory Clark</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Media reports say Japan&#8217;s education bureaucrats are considering allowing students with &#8220;stellar&#8221; academic records to graduate from high school before they turn 18. In other words, the required three-year stint at high school might be cut to two. In most countries, allowing university entry before age 18 would be seen as something quite normal, or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fact-checking Japan&#8217;s critics</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:03:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gregory Clark</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The better U.S. media now use fact-checkers and truth meters to debunk outrageous claims by politicians. Maybe Japan should do the same toward its critics. High on the truth-meter treatment list would be the never-ending claims that Japan is a racist society. One of the more egregious was the claim by the Dutch journalist, Karel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Labor showdown in Canberra</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 00:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gregory Clark</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It was a battle of the opposites. On one side we had ex-Australian prime minister, Kevin Rudd, 54, a former diplomat with baby-face looks, devoted wife and family, carefully cultivated religious persona and impeccable CV. Opposed was current Prime Minister Julia Gillard, 51, ex-lawyer, atheist with a WASP-ish demeanor, a live-in partner and a career [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dubious reasons to attack Iran</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2012/02/09/commentary/dubious-reasons-to-attack-iran/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=dubious-reasons-to-attack-iran</link>
		<comments>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2012/02/09/commentary/dubious-reasons-to-attack-iran/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:03:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gregory Clark</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It is hard not to be impressed by the one-dimensional reasons the United States gives for its various animosities. U.S. antagonism to Tehran began in 1979 when some revolution-minded Iranian students stormed the U.S. Embassy there and held 55 staff members as hostages for 444 days. Washington said the raid broke diplomatic protocol. But had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Europe&#8217;s potion is now its poison with China inheriting the benefits</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2012/01/23/commentary/europes-potion-is-now-its-poison-with-china-inheriting-the-benefits/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=europes-potion-is-now-its-poison-with-china-inheriting-the-benefits</link>
		<comments>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2012/01/23/commentary/europes-potion-is-now-its-poison-with-china-inheriting-the-benefits/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:02:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gregory Clark</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s lecture is on the sorry state of that dismal science called economics. Hands up, economists who foresaw the Lehman collapse in the United States. OK, I see a few hands out there. Now hands up, those who also foresaw the eurozone crisis? Not so many, it seems. Hands up, those who realized from the [...]]]></description>
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