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	<title>The Japan Times &#187; Judit Kawaguchi</title>
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		<title>Carpenter Eiichiro Amakasu</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 15:01:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judit Kawaguchi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eiichiro Amakasu, 70, is a carpenter who designs and builds traditional Japanese homes and their surrounding gardens. He is an expert of sukiya, a residential architectural style that is typically associated with Japanese tea houses. ]]></description>
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		<title>Rag-and-bone man Kei Ochiai</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2013 00:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judit Kawaguchi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Kei Ochiai is a rag-and-bone man for the Kanto region. He drives his small truck through neighborhoods in Tokyo and Yokohama, circling the areas while sounding his pitch with a loudspeaker: &#8220;Furniture, bikes, fridges, anything big and heavy, I&#8217;ll take it.&#8221; His jovial demeanor instantly wins him hearts and lots of business. He helps people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Benshi Midori Sawato</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Dec 2012 00:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judit Kawaguchi</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Charlie Chaplin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Midori Sawato]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Silent film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yasujirō Ozu]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Midori Sawato is a benshi, a unique kind of performer who provides live narration to silent films at the movie theater. The benshi brings the characters in films alive using different voices and vocal expressions. They sit to the side of the screen, watching the movie with the audience and using their versatility and talent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bar Aoyagi owner Reiko Yoshimura</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2012 00:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judit Kawaguchi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Reiko Yoshimura is the owner of Aoyagi, a tiny bar in the basement of Tokyo&#8217;s Shimbashi station. Built in 1966, the retro Shimbashi Ekimae Biru Ichigokan (Shimbashi Station Building No.1) is home to dozens of inexpensive drinking establishments that cater to salarymen and the occasional salarywomen who stop by for a beer and a bite [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Samurai-armor restorers Chizuru and Fumio Nishioka</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2012 00:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judit Kawaguchi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Chizuru, 58, and Fumio Nishioka, 59, are samurai-armor restorers. Among the handful of such specialists in Japan, they are the only ones who use the same techniques as artisans historically did in the past. Whether 900 or 150 years old, a samurai&#8217;s armor reveals its history through its layers of skilled craftsmanship. Chizuru and Fumio [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hunter Shoji Kuramochi</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2012 00:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Noriko Hama, Japanese economist and Dean of Doshisha Business School</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2012 00:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judit Kawaguchi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Noriko Hama, is a Japanese economist, the Dean of Doshisha Business School in Kyoto and a contributor to The Japan Times. Well known for her candid television commentaries, popular columns, she is completely absorbed in the world of economics, and utterly unfazed by its ups and downs. Hama has never been interested in making money, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social-media manager Lin Qing Xiang</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2012 00:01:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judit Kawaguchi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Lin Qing Xiang, 33, is the social-media manager of the &#8220;The Ruby Alan Show&#8221; (also known as &#8220;The RA Show&#8221;), a video blog that explores both Singaporean and Japanese culture. Lin creates travelogues of his journeys around Japan and also films Japanese-culture events in Singapore. A die-hard fan, he loves sharing his knowledge and love [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Minae Inahara, part-time lecturer at Rikkyo University</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 00:01:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Minae Inahara, 39, is a part-time lecturer at Rikkyo University in Tokyo. With a PhD in philosophy from the University of Hull in the United Kingdom, she has been researching disability on three continents: Australia, Asia and Europe. She is an expert in the exploration of the phenomenology of disability. A lot of Inahara&#8217;s knowledge [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Polish journalist-designer-photographers Pawel Musialowski and Malgorzata Gajderowicz</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 00:02:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pawel &#8220;Mr. Jedi&#8221; Musialowski, 39, and Malgorzata Gajderowicz, 29, are a Polish journalist-designer-photographer, husband-and-wife team who video-blog exclusively about their favorite place on earth: Japan. Pawel created Kawaii, Poland&#8217;s first magazine dedicated to Japanese manga and anime in 1997, and his website kawaii-mrjedi.blogspot.jp (written in Polish) is a comprehensive gateway to Japan and its culture. [...]]]></description>
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