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		<title>Say goodbye to the Buddha of the yakuza</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Mar 2013 15:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Takahiko Inoue, yakuza boss and Buddhist priest, died Feb. 10 at age 65. The police determined that he fell from the seventh story of the building where his office was located. When the ambulance arrived, Inoue told the crew: &#8220;I&#8217;m fine. Just take me to the hospital. I&#8217;ll walk to the car myself.&#8221; Those were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan&#8217;s suicide statistics don&#8217;t tell the real story</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2013 15:38:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to the National Police Agency (NPA), Japan&#8217;s annual total of suicides dipped below 30,000 people for the first time in 15 years in 2012 — to 27,766. While the fall is great news, part of me wonders: Has there really been a drop in suicides or should we look at it as a drop [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Even gangsters live in fear of Japan&#8217;s gun laws</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s almost impossible to get to a gun in Japan, and selling one or owning one is a serious crime. Fire the gun? Possibly life imprisonment. Gun-control laws are taken so seriously that police will pursue a violator all the way to the grave &#8212; and maybe beyond. The rationale for this is simple: &#8220;Of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan&#8217;s &#8216;life-less&#8217; anti-stalking laws are costing lives to be lost</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Dec 2012 00:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;To build a Buddha image but not to put in the soul (仏作って魂入れず/ Hotoke tsukutte tamashii irezu)&#8221; is a well-known saying stemming from a folk belief that statues of Buddhist deities are meant to have a spiritual presence. In other words, it&#8217;s a metaphor for making something that&#8217;s structurally sound but missing the most vital [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Angry mobster looms large over politicians</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Nov 2012 00:01:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jake Adelstein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In Japan these days, the political world seems to be mirroring &#8220;Beat&#8221; Takeshi Kitano&#8217;s latest yakuza film, &#8220;Outrage Beyond,&#8221; which depicts Japan&#8217;s ruling party as being well and truly in bed with the mob. If you&#8217;ve been paying attention to the news lately, that will sound familiar. Truth may be stranger than fiction, but sometimes [...]]]></description>
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