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	<title>The Japan Times &#187; Kris Kosaka</title>
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		<title>Poetry event to tap into global discussion</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Sep 2013 13:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kris Kosaka</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[000 Poets for Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[100]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poetry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Think global; act local. Kyoto residents have a chance this weekend to act on this aphorism, joining a global cultural event without even leaving Japan. The Japan International Poetry Society (JIPS), a group of bilingual poets founded in 2009, will host a poetry reading and discussion on Sept. 28. The event, titled &#8220;Transformation of Self, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Briton relies on samurai spirit as he sets out on 126-km walk for charity</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Sep 2013 14:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kris Kosaka</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Trevor Skingle]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Like many before him, Trevor Skingle became fascinated with samurai ethics while learning a martial art. But for this Briton, the samurai respect for the arts in traditional Japan resonated with his own life choices. That happened when he was a physical education trainer with the British military vying in army judo competitions at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Short films to get screen time in Sapporo</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/09/12/events/short-films-to-get-screen-time-in-sapporo/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=short-films-to-get-screen-time-in-sapporo</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Sep 2013 12:50:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kris Kosaka</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alyson Stoner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fatima Ptacek]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fred Deakin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sapporo Short Fest]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The eighth annual Sapporo Short Fest received 3,746 submissions from 94 countries. Organizers have whittled that number down to 99 films that will screen during the competition. Featured directors for the Filmmaker&#8217;s program hail from Canada, Italy, New Zealand, Greece, South Korea and Japan. Audiences will be treated to a wide variety of shorts, from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Organizer of annual writers&#8217; workshop helps others find artistic way</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/08/30/our-lives/organizer-of-annual-writers-workshop-helps-others-find-artistic-way/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=organizer-of-annual-writers-workshop-helps-others-find-artistic-way</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Aug 2013 14:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kris Kosaka</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[John Gribble]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[teacher]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[John Gribble gives a part of every day to creating. Whether it&#8217;s pinpointing the perfect word for a poem or plucking out a ditty on a guitar, his life and livelihood in some way proves creative. As a poet and teacher, Gribble has spent the last 20 years in Japan organizing others to find their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Collection of American Zen koans for quiet contemplation</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/08/24/books/collection-of-american-zen-koans-for-quiet-contemplation/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=collection-of-american-zen-koans-for-quiet-contemplation</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Aug 2013 14:01:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kris Kosaka</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[American Zen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[koans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zen Buddhism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[American Zen Koan No. 96: A student once asked Zen teacher Steve Allen, &#8220;If you were given a wish-fulfilling jewel, what would you wish for?&#8221; ONE BIRD, ONE STONE: 108 Contemporary Zen Stories, by Sean Murphy. Hampton Roads Publishing, 2013, 288 pp., &#036;17.95 (paperback) &#8220;To stop wishing,&#8221; replied Allen. Zen practice famously entails the unraveling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Film helps heal A-bombing, and family, wounds</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Aug 2013 14:10:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kris Kosaka</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[filmmaker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[M.T. Silvia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In a poignant scene in the award-winning 2010 documentary &#8220;Atomic Mom,&#8221; filmmaker M.T. Silvia tells the story of Sadako Sasaki, a Hiroshima atomic bombing victim, as she presents 1,000 paper cranes to Silvia&#8217;s mother, Pauline, a former U.S. Navy biologist involved in radiation testing on animals in the 1950s. The tale of Sasaki, who after [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Housewife takes time to make a difference volunteering in Tohoku</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/08/02/our-lives/housewife-takes-time-to-make-a-difference-volunteering-in-tohoku/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=housewife-takes-time-to-make-a-difference-volunteering-in-tohoku</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Aug 2013 14:01:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kris Kosaka</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Kerry Shioya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tohoku]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[volunteer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes making a difference just means making the time. Kerry Shioya, 49, travels two or three times a month to the Tohoku areas hit by the March 11, 2011, disasters. Sometimes setting out alone, sometimes bringing one of her five children, interested English students or other volunteers, Shioya continues to make time for those affected [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pioneering Australian&#8217;s outdoor adventures invigorate Hokkaido</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/07/19/our-lives/pioneering-australians-outdoor-adventures-invigorate-hokkaido/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=pioneering-australians-outdoor-adventures-invigorate-hokkaido</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jul 2013 14:05:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kris Kosaka</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Niseko]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[outdoor adventure sport]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ross Findlay]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Australian Ross Findlay is a doer. Name any outdoor sport and chances are he&#8217;s done it, from kayaking to rock climbing to snowcat skiing and snowshoeing. The ever-active Findlay, 48, was one of the first to bring the summer outdoor adventure business to Hokkaido almost 20 years ago. He has helped to turn the prefecture [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A diary washed ashore opens up a world of multiple realities</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jul 2013 14:04:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kris Kosaka</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ruth Ozeki]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A good read transcends into the eternal, melding the real now with a timeless present. Ruth Ozeki&#8217;s &#8220;A Tale for the Time Being&#8221; is all that and more: a quietly amazing achievement, a careful construct bridging quantum physics and the role of the reader/observer, a Zen eternity of multiple realities within a single I-novel/not a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mom who blogged about tsunami wants people to remember</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/07/05/our-lives/mom-who-blogged-about-tsunami-wants-people-to-remember/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=mom-who-blogged-about-tsunami-wants-people-to-remember</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jul 2013 14:01:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kris Kosaka</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[blogger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ishinomaki]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Manga]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Naoko Nakayama]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Stranded for three days after March 11, 2011, with her mother-in-law and young children on the second floor of their home near the industrial port of Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, Naoko Nakayama fought panic by communicating the only way she could: scribbling on torn scraps of paper. She wrote about how their toddler was running around [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;New&#8217; Royal Ballet spans the frontiers of dance</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/07/04/stage/new-royal-ballet-spans-the-frontiers-of-dance/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=new-royal-ballet-spans-the-frontiers-of-dance</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jul 2013 14:05:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kris Kosaka</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin O'Hare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Royal Ballet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sarah Lamb]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steven McRae]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Swan Lake]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For the first time in three years, one of the world&#8217;s most esteemed ballet companies is bringing its talent to one of the world&#8217;s most appreciative audiences, as part of a tour that explores the parameters of dance. Britain&#8217;s Royal Ballet will present its acclaimed new production, Christopher Wheeldon&#8217;s &#8220;Alice&#8217;s Adventures in Wonderland,&#8221; at Tokyo [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Historical biography captures the spirit of early feminist Japan</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/06/16/books/historical-biography-captures-the-spirit-of-early-feminist-japan/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=historical-biography-captures-the-spirit-of-early-feminist-japan</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jun 2013 15:05:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kris Kosaka</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[biographies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harumi Setouchi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jakucho Setouchi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japanese feminism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Noe Ito]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Time distorts, concealing the individual drops of humanity within the great tide of history. &#8220;Beauty in Disarray&#8221; attempts to reveal one such individual threatened to be lost in time, a woman named Noe Ito. In telling Ito&#8217;s tragic story, biographer Harumi Setouchi (now known by her Buddhist name Jakucho) also reveals early feminist Japan. Setouchi&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yoga teacher finds creative voice — and success — in &#8216;surreal&#8217; Tokyo</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/06/08/our-lives/yoga-teacher-finds-creative-voice-and-success-in-surreal-tokyo/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=yoga-teacher-finds-creative-voice-and-success-in-surreal-tokyo</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2013 15:02:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kris Kosaka</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barry Silver]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[yoga]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[While hammering nails and cutting planks in the prop department at New York’s Lincoln Center for the Metropolitan Opera in the early 2000s, Barry Silver never dreamed of a life in Japan. ]]></description>
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		<title>K-ballet brings back &#8216;Giselle&#8217; and introduces new leads</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2013 15:02:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kris Kosaka</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ballet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Giselle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[K Ballet]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As summer approaches with the misty other-worldliness of Japan&#8217;s rainy season, Tokyo&#8217;s K-Ballet graces the stage in June with a revival of the hauntingly romantic masterpiece &#8220;Giselle.&#8221; Six different ballerinas will perform the lead role as the production synthesizes K-Ballet&#8217;s changing image from a company that showcases its virtuoso artistic director and star, Tetsuya Kumakawa [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Women&#8217;s writings provide window on Tokugawa life</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/05/26/books/womens-writings-provide-window-on-tokugawa-life/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=womens-writings-provide-window-on-tokugawa-life</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 15:01:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kris Kosaka</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Keiko Shiba]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Motoko Ezaki]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[women's literature]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Edo Period in Japan seems pretty much a feminist’s nightmare. Samurai rule and strict societal boundaries confined women within the neo-Confucianistic bonds of a deeply patriarchal society. ]]></description>
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		<title>Head of international short film festival finds fertile ground up north</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/05/11/our-lives/head-of-international-short-film-festival-finds-fertile-ground-up-north/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=head-of-international-short-film-festival-finds-fertile-ground-up-north</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 15:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kris Kosaka</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Toshiya Kubo consistently gravitates to the peripheral. As a teenager, while his friends rushed to buy Beatles records, Kubo searched for lesser-known musicians; the mainstream in media flocked to Tokyo while Kubo preferred Hokkaido, the prefecture of his birth; producers look toward feature films as the pinnacle of success while Kubo favors shorts as &#8220;the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Samurai moms and the art of brood maintenance: a mother from the West&#8217;s lessons from the East</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 15:06:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kris Kosaka</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[May in Japan is the perfect month for mothers. Wreathed in the fertile blooms of spring, bolstered by days of absolute perfection, May is also a month of muddy contradiction.]]></description>
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		<title>Trendsetting restauranteurs succeed in bringing bit of Bohemia to Osaka</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/04/27/our-lives/trendsetting-restaurateurs-succeed-in-bringing-bit-of-bohemia-to-osaka/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=trendsetting-restaurateurs-succeed-in-bringing-bit-of-bohemia-to-osaka</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 15:04:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kris Kosaka</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cafe Absinthe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dmitri Farberov]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;re in a breezy, open space, bathed in light. Frothy indoor plants and burnished wood surrounds vibrant splashes of azure. While sipping a &#8220;green fairy,&#8221; that traditional spirit of artists around the world, someone passes you a shisha, or water pipe, and you inhale sweet, fruit-soaked tobacco. You could be anywhere along the Mediterranean Sea, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>There are no shortcuts to enlightenment, but plenty of laughs on the journey</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/04/21/books/there-are-no-shortcuts-to-enlightenment-but-plenty-of-laughs-on-the-journey-3/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=there-are-no-shortcuts-to-enlightenment-but-plenty-of-laughs-on-the-journey-3</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2013 15:11:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kris Kosaka</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Amy Chavez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Buddhism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[henro]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shikoku Pilgrimage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Spring in Japan: a time to re-evaluate, to explore spiritually the choices of the upcoming fiscal year. A season of pilgrimage. ]]></description>
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		<title>Irrepressible Irishman promotes Japan culture</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/04/06/our-lives/irrepressible-irishman-promotes-japan-culture/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=irrepressible-irishman-promotes-japan-culture</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2013 15:05:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kris Kosaka</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[poet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[print-making]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seisai]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[translator]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Humor may be the hardest genre to translate, but laughter speaks any language. Poet and literary translator Peter MacMillan&#8217;s recent foray into visual art, &#8220;Thirty-Six New Views of Mount Fuji,&#8221; delights with wry whimsicality, employing mixed-media print-making to reveal a multicultural drollery. It&#8217;s exactly the witty disparity you&#8217;d expect from a philosopher with a mischievous [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dine with a backdrop of cherry blossom</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2013/03/29/food/dine-with-a-backdrop-of-cherry-blossom/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=dine-with-a-backdrop-of-cherry-blossom</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 15:10:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robbie Swinnerton, Melinda Joe, John Ashburne,  and Kris Kosaka</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[cherry blossoms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hanami]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japanese cuisine]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[With an ephemeral canopy of pink sweeping Japan, the JT&#8217;s food writers know the perfect spots to dine with an eyeful of sakura (cherry blossom) — or just the right sake to sip as you picnic under the petals. Innsyoutei, Tokyo When it comes to blossom viewing, nowhere in Tokyo does it better or with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abashiri astounds with its ice and convict connections</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2013/03/24/travel/abashiri-astounds-with-its-ice-and-convict-connections/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=abashiri-astounds-with-its-ice-and-convict-connections</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Mar 2013 15:10:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kris Kosaka</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Abashiri]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In April 1890, the Japanese government shipped more than 1,200 political prisoners from all over the country, including samurai insurgents from the 1877 Satsuma Rebellion against the government of Emperor Meiji. Nine years before, more than 250 years of rule by the Tokugawa shoguns had finally ended. Spared death, those rebels and other miscreants were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Photography buff thrives in the capital of cameras</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/03/23/our-lives/photography-buff-thrives-in-the-capital-of-cameras/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=photography-buff-thrives-in-the-capital-of-cameras</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 15:06:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kris Kosaka</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[analog photography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bellamy Hunt]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bellamy Hunt&#8217;s name is part of his business: Japan Camera Hunter, a one-man enterprise supporting film photo buffs around Asia and the world. His work mainly involves hunting down vintage cameras, whether an elusive early model Nikon or a classic Leica. Although Hunt appreciates the pun in his company&#8217;s name (&#8220;My Japanese clients love seeing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Power of poetry penned by survivors of 3/11 is showcased by ASIJ project</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/03/09/general/power-of-poetry-penned-by-survivors-of-311-is-showcased-by-asij-project/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=power-of-poetry-penned-by-survivors-of-311-is-showcased-by-asij-project</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2013 15:10:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kris Kosaka</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[American School in Japan]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[March 11]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kathy Krauth, a social studies teacher at the American School in Japan, admits she was never a huge fan of tanka, traditional Japanese poetry. &#8220;Tanka never really spoke to me. I dismissed it as early Japanese history with cherry blossoms.&#8221; That all changed when Krauth sat in a classroom at the University of Colorado, Boulder, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;A person and a possession&#8217;: Japanese women in history</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/03/03/books/a-person-and-a-possession-japanese-women-in-history/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=a-person-and-a-possession-japanese-women-in-history</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Mar 2013 15:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kris Kosaka</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Japanese history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[women's studies]]></category>

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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>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/02/15/our-lives/british-photographer-documents-people-who-live-outside-the-norm/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=british-photographer-documents-people-who-live-outside-the-norm</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 13:15:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kris Kosaka</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adrian Storey]]></category>
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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>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/01/25/our-lives/new-yorker-opens-doors-for-foreigners-in-sapporo/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=new-yorker-opens-doors-for-foreigners-in-sapporo</link>
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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>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/01/24/stage/with-desh-khan-proves-you-can-go-home-again/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=with-desh-khan-proves-you-can-go-home-again</link>
		<comments>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/01/24/stage/with-desh-khan-proves-you-can-go-home-again/#comments</comments>
		<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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