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		<title>Nuclear dispute shapes fight over future of fading town</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2013 15:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Kingston</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This superbly told tale about the waxing and waning fortunes of Kaminoseki town over the past four centuries presents some interesting local counterpoints to the more familiar national narrative.]]></description>
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		<title>Gold rush: Japan Inc. flocks to Myanmar</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2013 15:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Kingston</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Political reforms are happening because the military/political leaders wanted to end their nation's isolation and benefit from having a more prosperous economy.]]></description>
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		<title>Military is key to emerging democracy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2013 15:03:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Kingston</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[After five decades under military rule, Myanmar faces many challenges in building a robust democracy. The election of Aung San Suu Kyi and 41 other members of the National League for Democracy (NLD) in parliamentary by-elections last April has stoked a degree of euphoria tempered by grim realities still prevailing in the country. Attacks by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Future leaders stress &#8216;politics of the daily&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2013 15:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Kingston</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2015, Aung San Suu Kyi and Myanmar&#8217;s current president, Thein Sein, will both turn 70, so a great deal depends on future leaders. On a recent visit I caught up with two promising aspirants who focus on the &#8220;politics of the daily.&#8221; On Sunday at sunrise I met Dr. Nyo Nyo Thinn in front [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan&#8217;s medical system skewed toward men in treating depression</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2013 15:41:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Kingston</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[DEPRESSION IN JAPAN: Psychiatric Cures for a Society in Distress, by Junko Kitanaka. Princeton University Press, 2011, 264 pp., &#36;29.95 (paperback) Twenty-first century Japan is in the throes of a depression epidemic. Until the late 1990s, mental depression was not widely diagnosed or treated in Japan, but it has suddenly emerged from the closet of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nanjing remembers; disputes fester</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2013 10:46:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Kingston</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Young Chinese marking the 75th anniversary of the Nanjing Massacre are baptized in battles over war memory that shape bilateral relations.]]></description>
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		<title>Revisiting Asia&#8217;s past, present</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2012/12/23/books/revisiting-asias-past-present/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=revisiting-asias-past-present</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Dec 2012 00:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Kingston</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia&#8221; (Allen Lane) by Pankaj Mishra. This is the story of the Asian intellectual&#8217;s response to Western imperialism. It is an intelligent and rewarding read that crisscrosses time and space, helping readers better understand the lingering resentments and contemporary developments. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The revenge of Asia against the West</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Dec 2012 00:01:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Kingston</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[FROM THE RUINS OF EMPIRE: The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia, by Pankaj Mishra. Allen Lane, 2012, 356 pp., ￡20 (hardcover) The story of Asia&#8217;s awakening and response to Western imperialism is well-trodden ground, but Pankaj Mishra masterfully retells this story by focusing on the unlikely convergences between some lesser known [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shedding light on problems with Japan&#8217;s psychiatric care</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Nov 2012 00:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Kingston</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[MENTAL HEALTH CARE IN JAPAN, edited by Ruth Taplin and Sandra J. Lawman. Routledge, 2012, 148 pp., &#36;155 (hardcover) This collection of seven chapters makes for grim reading because it details the miserable state of mental health care in Japan. One key problem is the, &#8220;megadose culture in psychiatric care.&#8221; Patients are kept sedated with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Giving voice to the survivors of the unprecedented 3/11 disaster</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Nov 2012 00:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Kingston</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[STRONG IN THE RAIN: Surviving Japan&#8217;s Earthquake, Tsunami and Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, by Lucy Birmingham and David McNeill. Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, 256 pp., &#36;27 (hardcover) This is a riveting story about Japan&#8217;s March 11 cataclysm told uncommonly well by two veteran Japan-based journalists who share their emotions, experiences and insights while giving readers ringside seats [...]]]></description>
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