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	<title>The Japan Times &#187; Kris Kosaka</title>
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		<title>&#8216;A person and a possession&#8217;: Japanese women in history</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Mar 2013 15:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kris Kosaka</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SELLING WOMEN: Prostitution, Markets and the Household in Early Modern Japan, by Amy Stanley. University of California Press, 2012, 282 pp., &#036;49.95 (hardcover) In the vast cultural landscape, Japan fascinates the mainstream with manga and anime, the martial arts, Zen and kimono. Of course, Japan equally attracts with its underground culture. Since its 19th-century erotic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>British photographer documents lives outside the lines</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 13:15:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kris Kosaka</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Uchujin, aka Adrian Storey, a British photographer and filmmaker based in Tokyo, drolly explains his rather unusual business moniker: "I'd rather be an alien than an outsider." ]]></description>
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		<title>Founder of TIS makes creativity cornerstone of school&#8217;s curriculum</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2013 14:26:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kris Kosaka</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patrick Newell]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Patrick Newell, 47, founder of Tokyo International School, calls himself a “learning activist,” a zealot on the frontlines of learning. ]]></description>
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		<title>Canadian uses sports as bridge to teaching, writing, understanding</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2013 11:36:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kris Kosaka</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[soccer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writer, teacher and sports fan Trevor Kew, 32, pedals and kicks his way through culture shock. He uses sports to help him adapt to unfamiliar cultures or new places when traveling, trusting his bike or a soccer ball to bridge the gap with locals. Kew&#8217;s sports and teaching worlds also neatly connect to his published [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Yorker opens doors for foreigners in Sapporo</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2013 10:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kris Kosaka</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hokkaido Insider]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ken Hartmann]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ken Hartmann, 71, still opens doors for ladies, and still speaks with a brusque, no-nonsense New York accent even after 27 years in Japan.]]></description>
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		<title>With &#8216;Desh,&#8217; Khan proves you can go home again</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 08:05:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kris Kosaka</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Akram Khan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dance]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If art's purpose is to ask the relevant questions, then British-Bangladeshi dancer Akram Khan successfully interrogates humanity — and himself — with his latest production, "Desh." ]]></description>
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		<title>Nomad writer and photographer keeps his passions fueled by travel</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jan 2013 00:01:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kris Kosaka</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Fiction can work like a cheap flight; a good novel takes off, jetting readers to new worlds. Writers and photographers triple the distance traveled. Sean Lotman, 37, an avid reader, writer, photographer and nomad, has logged thousands of kilometers around the world. Travel fuels Lotman&#8217;s twin passions &#8212; writing and photography. He spends three to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Textile scholar advocates sustainable fashion</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Dec 2012 00:02:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kris Kosaka</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Yoshiko Wada, textile artist and scholar, believes the word &#8220;sustainable&#8221; in foods and fashion shares the same philosophical taste. &#8220;Both are a holistic approach, about health, environment, and the community that supports it. We must recapture and rethink how we are going to sustain our Earth and society, our community and our cultural heritage,&#8221; she [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Celebrating the female dragons</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Dec 2012 00:02:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kris Kosaka</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;All That I Am&#8221; (Harper) by Anna Funder blazes across pre-World War II Europe, illuminating the period when Hitler eliminated all national opposition in his prelude to the rest of the world. Funder imaginatively melds historical figures, painstaking research and creative fire to chronicle the desperate resistance against Nazi Germany&#8217;s encroaching domination. Riveting, centered by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Writer, teacher, advocate finds her stride in the Japanese countryside</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Dec 2012 00:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kris Kosaka</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[For Jane Joritz-Nakagawa, her sociopolitical outlook colors all aspects of her life, as a writer, educator or activist. &#8220;Activism runs through what I read and what I write and what I&#8217;m teaching; It&#8217;s all one big thing, as the same mindset invades all those activities. It is inescapable,&#8221; she says. A strict vegan and advocate [...]]]></description>
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