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		<title>Kyoto gardens give up all their secrets during intimate guided tours</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2013 17:39:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Singer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How do you appreciate a Japanese garden? The typical temple visit — where you ponder a seemingly random assemblage of rocks and raked gravel or push your way through a throng of tourists jostling for camera angles — can leave one confused and underwhelmed. Kyoto-based garden tour organizer Mark Hovane, 47, suggests that visitors first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sri Lankan keen to showcase Japanese innovation</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Nov 2012 00:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Monte Cassim, 65, slips effortlessly from English to Japanese and back, as befits one of the few non-Japanese to have served as president of a major Japanese university. After heading Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University in Beppu, Oita Prefecture, from 2004 to 2009, the Sri Lankan architect and engineer is now a professor at Ritsumeikan University, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Import club caters to need for home comfort</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Aug 2012 00:01:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Singer</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The blonde man in shorts and a baseball cap, sporting a lopsided grin and a dangling backpack and parking a rusty bicycle, looked less like a captain of industry than a superannuated college student. Yet American Chuck Grafft, 50, is founder and CEO of Foreign Buyers Club, one of the largest importers of Western consumer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Head monk of Kyoto temple takes Buddhism into the community</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 May 2012 00:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Singer</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Climb the stone walkway, stippled with fallen red camellia blossoms, that leads to Kyoto&#8217;s Honen-in Temple, past a mossy thatched gate and raised platforms of sand combed in tight patterns of waves and chrysanthemums, and you enter a hushed and otherworldly space at the foot of Mount Daimonji. Honen-in&#8217;s most famous resident is novelist Junichiro [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kyoto-based Italian physicist blazes trail for foreign academics</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:02:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Singer</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Professor Giuseppe Pezzotti, 51, a materials scientist at Kyoto Institute of Technology, effortlessly switches from a newspaper interview in English to discuss research collaboration with a colleague in fluent Japanese. Even sartorially, he straddles East and West: While his torso is clad in button-down shirt, khaki pants and lime green sweater, his bare feet are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Every print a poem, artist&#8217;s self-portrait</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 00:01:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Singer</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Woodblock prints, or moku hanga, may seem to be the quintessential Japanese art, but they have been embraced by artists around the world. American artist Richard Steiner, 72, has practiced woodblock printing for most of the 41 years of his residence in Japan. As a print-making and lettering instructor at Kyoto Seika University since 1980, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Briton aims to restore poets&#8217; peak to former glory</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Oct 2011 00:01:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Singer</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Nineteen university students and civic-minded Kyoto residents squat on a mountain pass on a cloudless afternoon in early October as a tall British poet, Stephen Gill, 58, reads from a collection of haiku. In British-inflected but fluent Japanese, he recites poems about this mountain, Mount Ogura, in the western Kyoto suburb of Saga-Arashiyama. The group [...]]]></description>
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		<title>American trumpeter makes his horn sing in Kansai clubs</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Sep 2011 00:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On a Sunday in early August, American trumpeter James Barrett led his band through a set featuring rhythmic jazz and world music beats as part of the Saiin Music Festival in western Kyoto. Tall and lanky, modestly clad in a T-shirt and beige jeans, the 34-year-old Barrett belied the popular image of the trumpeter as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>American woman pours self into noh</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jun 2011 00:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Disaster expert seeks better tsunami defense</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2011 00:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A town hall located several kilometers inland was the designated disaster evacuation site in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture. Immediately after the magnitude 9 earthquake hit Tohoku on the afternoon of March 11, a young town employee broadcast an urgent evacuation order to local residents. Her broadcasts continued until the tsunami hit, submerging the announcer, the evacuees [...]]]></description>
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