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	<title>The Japan Times &#187; Kazuaki Nagata</title>
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		<title>Microsoft&#8217;s tablet computer finally coming to Japan in search of sales</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 15:35:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kazuaki Nagata</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft Corp.&#8217;s first-ever tablet computer will hit the Japanese market in two weeks, the company said Friday, hoping to break the iPad&#8217;s domination. Five months after its debut in several other countries, Microsoft&#8217;s Surface RT tablet will reach store shelves here March 15, Microsoft Japan President Yasuyuki Higuchi announced during a media event in Tokyo. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Firms go abroad by hiring foreign students here</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 16:03:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kazuaki Nagata</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Employment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Japanese companies continue to look overseas for opportunities to expand, an increasing number are trying to hire foreigners — or what they call &#8220;global human resources.&#8221; As part of this trend, it is growing more common for foreign students studying here to apply for work at Japanese companies and go through the traditional job-hunting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TV firms&#8217; hopes ride on 4K shift to &#8216;bigger, smarter&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2013 15:22:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kazuaki Nagata</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sony]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Toshiba]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TV]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Japanese TV makers are desperately seeking new strategies to revive their flagging operations, and some of the key points include expanding screen sizes, boosting image quality and making them &#8220;smarter&#8221; and more user-friendly. With midsize televisions barely turning a profit, the nation&#8217;s electronics giants are banking on large-screen TVs and so-called 4K, or ultrahigh-definition, models. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Toshiba decontamination bot to scrub No. 1 plant</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 15:25:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kazuaki Nagata</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[fukushima]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[radiation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robot]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Toshiba Corp. on Friday unveiled a prototype of its remotely operated decontamination robot that it expects to help clean up the Fukushima No. 1 plant&#8217;s radiation-zapped reactor buildings as early as this summer. The robot — which can withstand radiation up to 100 sieverts, far in excess of what the human body can endure — [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Whaling an &#8216;economic loser,&#8217; study says</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2013 15:45:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kazuaki Nagata</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Commercial whaling makes no economic sense given its money-losing operational structure and the declining consumption of whale meat, an animal rights group charged Tuesday in Tokyo. &#8220;Whaling is an economic loser in the 21st century,&#8221; Patrick Ramage, whale program director of the International Fund for Animal Welfare, said of a study analyzing the finances of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Closer fault study raises Kyushu quake threat</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2013 14:47:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kazuaki Nagata</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The possibility of Kyushu being hit by a magnitude 6.8 or stronger temblor within 30 years is between 30 to 42 percent under newly revised criteria, a recent report by the government&#8217;s earthquake research panel shows. The Headquarters for Earthquake Research Promotion under the Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Ministry released the report Friday. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Firm seeking to conquer world with translation app</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2013 16:06:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kazuaki Nagata</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Facetime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iPad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iPhone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[video-call translation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For non-Japanese speakers, services like Google Translate and NTT DoCoMo Inc.'s phones that provide automated translation by speaking into the devices may have made it easier to communicate while in Japan.]]></description>
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		<title>Active fault to scuttle Tsuruga plant</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2013 16:30:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kazuaki Nagata</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fukui Prefecture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nuclear power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nuclear reactor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nuclear Regulation Authority]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tsuruga]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tsuruga Nuclear Power Plant]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The NRA's draft report on the Tsuruga atomic power plant states that the fault under reactor 2 is probably active, effectively condemning the complex to the scrap heap.]]></description>
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		<title>Infobar wows again with interface innovation</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2013 11:40:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kazuaki Nagata</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[On Thursday, KDDI Corp.'s au brand unveil the latest model of the Infobar smartphone series, which will hit the Japanese market after mid-February.]]></description>
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		<title>Victims and survivors return from Algeria</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2013 11:09:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kazuaki Nagata</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Algeria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hostage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[return]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The bodies of nine of the 10 Japanese killed in the hostage crisis at an Algerian natural gas plant are flown back to Tokyo, along with seven survivors.]]></description>
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