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		<title>Two&#8217;s company on laid-back Zamami</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Aug 2013 14:23:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hillel Wright</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Naha]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sea turtles]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Being naturally averse to traffic jams, long lines at airports, overcrowded trains and cranked-up hotel rates, I&#8217;ve never been one for traveling far on a national holiday in Japan, especially during Golden Week in May when a few of them cluster together. But this year, as my wife, Shiori Tsuchiya, and I had our 15th [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hot weather&#8217;s cold comfort for eels</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jul 2013 14:27:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Marianas Islands]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In March this year, I spent a week in Taiwan as a guest of the Taiwan Fisheries Agency. My hosts had laid on a relentless daily schedule that took in a complete circuit of the island nation, visiting nearly all the major commercial fishing ports, including Taitung on the Pacific Ocean, Tainan and Kaosiung on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sand, sea and stars on idyllic Akajima</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jun 2013 15:03:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hillel Wright</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[diving]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[humpback whales]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nahaa]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Back in 1972 when I first lived on Denman Island in the Georgia Strait of British Columbia between Vancouver and Vancouver Island, I was one of about 300 residents. By the time I left 25 years later for Japan, its population had just topped 1,000, and each year sees a few more drawn to live [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Get set for boating in Naha and Itoman</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2013 15:12:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hillel Wright</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[dragon boats]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[May and June are the months in which to visit Okinawa if your aim is to witness the spectacle of fiercely contested races between crews paddling dragon boats or the Ryukyu Islands' small traditional fishing boats called sabani.]]></description>
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		<title>Remembering that &#8216;life&#8217;s a beach&#8217; keeps winter at bay</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Summer to me has always meant the beach, and now in the depths of winter it&#8217;s to sun-kissed strands and sparkling blue seas that my thoughts are prone to wander. In my childhood days, from kindergarten through high school, I was lucky enough to be able to spend a couple of weeks and several other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Motobu: A stopover in paradise on the way back home</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Dec 2012 00:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An enjoyable experience is worth repeating. So when I finished teaching a two-week Summer Intensive at a university in Tokyo and was ready to return home to Okinawa, I decided to again take the ferry from Kagoshima as I had done the year before. I did, however, make a couple of variations. Last year, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Summer in the city&#8217;s Todoroki Valley wilderness</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Oct 2012 00:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Where does an expatriate living in Okinawa go for a two-week summer holiday? Why, to Tokyo, of course &#8212; if it&#8217;s a working holiday &#8212; as there&#8217;s no better place in Japan to make good money than the Big Mikan. So, for the past couple of years since moving to Naha following the March 2011 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tohoku fisheries fight back from 3/11</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Sep 2012 00:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The facts about much of Japan&#8217;s social, political, and financial life are hidden so well that the truth is nearly impossible to know,&#8221; writes Alex Kerr in his acclaimed 2001 study &#8220;Dogs and Demons: Tales from the Dark Side of Japan.&#8221; He continues, &#8220;A lack of reliable data is the single most significant difference between [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sea changes set in motion</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Sep 2012 00:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Between 20 and 30 percent of Japan&#8217;s marine fisheries production was lost in the wake of the Great East Japan Earthquake that struck the Tohoku region of northeastern Honshu on March 11, 2011, followed by huge tsunamis and explosions and reactor meltdowns at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. In consequence, the importance of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vancouver fest offers a warm (but not humid!) welcome</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jul 2012 00:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Summers in Tokyo, indeed in most of Japan except for Hokkaido or Okinawa, are often unbearably hot and humid, with temperatures in the mid to high 30s and humidity reaching as high as 90 percent. This summer, in the wake of last year&#8217;s Fukushima nuclear power plant meltdown, use of air conditioning will again be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting away from it all on Aguni</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 00:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Robert Burns, the hard-living 18th-century Scottish poet, lyricist and culture hero who died aged 37 in 1796, is one of the most oft-quoted writers with roots in the British Isles. However, as he often wrote in the Scots language, many of his most famous sayings have become more familiar in their standard English translations. One [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A voyage of discovery from Tokyo to Naha</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2012 00:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the Autumnal Equinox of 2011 I finished teaching a monthlong summer intensive course at a university in Tokyo, and had six days before I had to be back in my new hometown of Naha, Okinawa, for a meeting at my new university in the nearby town of Nishihara. Since I was in no particular [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turning to Okinawa and its rituals in search of a happier new year</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 00:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Without a shred of a doubt, 2011 stands out to me &#8212; in a way that hopefully will never be surpassed &#8212; as the most catastrophic I have ever known. March 11&#8242;s magnitude-9 Great East Japan Earthquake, followed by a monstrous tsunami and then three reactor meltdowns at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chilling out in a warm Kume Island way</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2011/12/11/travel/chilling-out-in-a-warm-kume-island-way/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=chilling-out-in-a-warm-kume-island-way</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 00:01:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first thing a good beach does is immediately make you want to take your watch off. But what makes a really great beach is when you do that &#8212; and then kick off your shoes as well. That&#8217;s exactly what I did when I arrived at Eef Beach on Kume Island, Okinawa. The university [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taking it easy on Tokashiki</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2011 00:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the days of the Ryukyu Kingdom, from the 14th to 19th centuries, Chinese envoys would come to Shuri Castle on the island of Okinawa to officiate at the coronation of the Ryukyu kings. When their ships were spotted from the 227-meter peak of Mount Akama on the northeast coast of outlying Tokashiki Island, smoke [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shimi time is party time for Okinawans alive and not</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Aug 2011 00:01:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How would you like to spend a fun Sunday partying on a grave surrounded by hundreds of other tombs in a huge cemetery? Well, if you happen to be in Okinawa in April, shortly after the vernal equinox, you&#8217;ll find thousands of families doing just that in high-spirited family outings at the festival time known [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Serendipity set a course to fish the high seas</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jan 2011 00:01:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1969, I was living at Hapuna Beach on the Big Island of Hawaii. I was 25 years old and had recently taken a leave-of-absence from Southern Illinois University, where I&#8217;d been a PhD candidate and an instructor in the English department. As I&#8217;d spent 20 of my 25 years in schooling by then, it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are Japan&#8217;s fish lovers eating tuna to extinction?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pick up a newspaper in Japan these days and you&#8217;ll almost always find a story in it about the state of bluefin tuna somewhere in the world. Just a few recent headlines have included: &#8220;Fishing industry being eaten alive&#8221;; &#8220;Tuna shortage has Japan fearing for its next sushi&#8221;; &#8220;European fleets accused of overfishing bluefin tuna&#8221;; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Hour of the Ox</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Nov 2010 00:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At 13 years of age, Angelica Akahoshi was the youngest person ever awarded the prestigious Akutagawa Prize for Literature. To the manga-loving Japanese public, the fact that her award-winning book was a graphic novel only added to the intense curiosity suddenly directed at this cute but reclusive girl with the literary brains, imagination and artistic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ugly seafood just doesn&#8217;t get better</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 May 2010 00:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A mong the highlights of any visit to Ibaraki Prefecture could well be Kita-Ibaraki in its far northeast &#8212; specifically the towns of Otsu-ko and Hirakata-ko, which offer perhaps the best opportunity in the nation to sample the great winter seafood delicacy of anko (anglerfish) Otsu-ko can be reached in around 2 hours from Ueno [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ibaraki&#8217;s hidden lure</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 May 2010 00:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whether tourist or resident, anyone looking for a short trip out of Tokyo, but still within the surrounding Kanto region, has plenty of varied options. There&#8217;s the mountain resort of Nikko in Tochigi Prefecture, the medicinal hot-spring town of Kusatsu in Gunma, the scenic and historic hot springs close by Mount Fuji in the Kanagawa [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mito&#8217;s marvels span time, TV and beauty</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 May 2010 00:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last, but not least, on this Ibaraki travel itinerary is Mito, the prefectural capital. Known to those who watch Japanese television as the home of Mito Komon, the leading character in Japan&#8217;s eponymous and longest-running TV series, which has been aired continuously since 1969, the city with a population approaching 300,000 also figures prominently in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bodhisattva of the river road</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:01:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Have another drink, Boss!&#8221; Yes, Saburo Yamada was the boss, the company president &#8212; and yes, he would have another drink. And why not? Business was good. His small but productive company made ships&#8217; propellers and marine metalwork and had contracts with Mitsubishi, one of the world&#8217;s great conglomerates. Mitsubishi Shipbuilding here in Shimonoseki, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eisler: international author of mystery</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 00:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Start with an image. A man walking down a street in Tokyo. Steep, like San Francisco. Maybe Daikanyama. As the man walks toward Shibuya, two men follow in the shadows. Why? They want to kill him! Thus was born John Rain, assassin for hire, expert in staging fatal &#8220;accidents,&#8221; creating &#8220;natural causes&#8221; of death. As [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can farmers keep tuna on the menu?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2009 00:01:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In December 2007, the Fisheries Laboratory fish farm of Kinki University in Wakayama Prefecture became the first facility in the world to &#8220;close the cycle&#8221; by breeding Pacific bluefin tuna (hon-maguro) from completely cultured sources. That is, a third generation of fish was bred from two generations of tuna that had never lived in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What future for fish as Japan&#8217;s daily fare?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2009 00:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I first joined a commercial hook-and-line boat fishing for salmon off the west coast of Vancouver Island, Canada, in 1976, we began our season in April, moved north through the summer months, and returned home at the end of October. When I finally retired from that life in 1987, regulations had restricted our fishing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A herring fishery shows that the big picture can be elusive</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2009 00:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nearly all the herring roe now used to make the Japanese new-year delicacy kazunoko comes from North America&#8217;s west coast. The ocean-living herring go there in huge numbers to spawn in March, and are met by ranks of predators, including cormorants, terns and gulls, bald eagles, ospreys, dogfish sharks, salmon, seals, sea lions and, not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Motel of Lost Companions</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2008 00:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was a foolish argument . . . the worst kind of argument too, over food. And not even food exactly, but over salad dressing. She&#8217;d left his dinner on the table while she was out shopping for groceries. There was a bowl of yakisoba noodles and a plate of gyoza dumplings to heat up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A country defined by fish</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Dec 2007 00:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Culture and cuisine are closely intertwined in Japan, and especially as regards seafood. Since bright colors such as red or yellow are considered to be lucky, Japanese New Year dishes include tai (sea bream or red snapper) or buri (yellowtail) to ensure an auspicious start to the year. Hokkaido, Japan&#8217;s northernmost prefecture, is famous for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan&#8217;s love affair with Oma&#8217;s tuna</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Dec 2007 00:01:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Jan. 5, 2001, a 202-kg Pacific bluefin tuna sold at Tokyo&#8217;s Tsukiji fish market auction for &#36;173,000 (&#36;860 per kilogram), making it the most expensive single fish transaction ever recorded. That Pacific bluefin tuna, known as hon maguro (true tuna) or kuro maguro (black tuna) in Japanese, was caught in the Tsugaru Strait, a [...]]]></description>
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