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	<title>The Japan Times &#187; Makiko Kitamura</title>
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		<title>Veggie-heavy diet and yoga shown to slow cell aging</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Sep 2013 13:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Makiko Kitamura</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The fountain of youth may simply be a healthy diet and reduced stress after all, not a magic pill or expensive cosmetics. Comprehensive lifestyle changes, including more fruit and vegetables as well as meditation and yoga, were shown to reverse signs of aging at the cellular level for the first time in a study published [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exporters say they need still more action to lower yen</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Aug 2011 00:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Makiko Kitamura  and Yuki Hagiwara</dc:creator>
		
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		<title>Quake levels playing field for imported cars</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Makiko Kitamura  and Yuki Hagiwara</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The record March 11 earthquake had an unexpected side effect for Bayerische Motoren Werke AG dealer Jun Kubota: His showroom in central Tokyo had its best April in at least three years. Kubota wasn&#8217;t alone. Across the country, as Japanese carmakers reeled from output disruptions following the quake, BMW deliveries surged 56 percent in April, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Toyoda buries head as recall crisis grows</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Makiko Kitamura  and Alan Ohnsman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[As Toyota&#8217;s recalls spread to at least 7.6 million cars across five continents, President Akio Toyoda&#8217;s only public comments on the matter have consisted of an impromptu, 75-second interview with NHK in Davos, Switzerland. More than a week after the world&#8217;s biggest carmaker said it would recall vehicles in the United States to fix defective [...]]]></description>
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		<title>JAL better off without government umbrella</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Makiko Kitamura  and Ian Rowley</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Kiyoshi Watanabe bought Japan Airlines Corp. shares last year at about &#165;100 and lost more than 90 percent of his investment on speculation the former flag carrier will file for bankruptcy. Yet he supports the government&#8217;s decision to forgo a bailout. &#8220;With the blood transfusions, JAL would just be surviving as a zombie,&#8221; said Watanabe, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Mazda next in line for partner?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Makiko Kitamura  and Ian Rowley</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Mazda Motor Corp. may be the next carmaker to strike an alliance following plans by Suzuki Motor Corp. and Mitsubishi Motors Corp. to team up with overseas manufacturers, investors and analysts say. The companies are seeking to share costs for developing new models with the latest technology. Mazda may need to do the same as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nissan calls on composers of movie scores to give EVs sound</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Makiko Kitamura  and Yuki Hagiwara</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Toshiyuki Tabata spent 30 years as a Nissan Motor Co. engineer trying to make gasoline-powered cars quieter. Now he&#8217;s consulting music composers to make electric cars noisier &#8212; and safer. Electric and hybrid cars, with little or no engine noise, are lauded for their silence, yet some groups including advocates for the blind say pedestrians [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bucking trend, Honda backs hydrogen</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Ohnsman  and Makiko Kitamura</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Honda Motor Co. believes hydrogen will power the cars of the future, a stance at odds with the Obama administration&#8217;s decision to drop automotive fuel-cell technology in favor of battery-run vehicles. &#8220;Fuel-cell cars will become necessary,&#8221; said Takashi Moriya, head of Tokyo-based Honda&#8217;s group developing the technology. &#8220;We&#8217;re positioning it as the ultimate zero-emission car.&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carmakers chase female buyers</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Makiko Kitamura  and Kae Inoue</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[More than 300 young women, sporting curly chestnut brown-dyed hair, heavy makeup and manicured nails crowded into a Toyota showroom, peering at a Prius painted candy-apple red and decorated with rhinestones and heart-shaped pink stickers. &#8220;I&#8217;m not really interested in cars,&#8221; said Erika Horiki, 23, who wore a cowboy hat, fringed boots and denim shorts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Love hotel industry shrugs off recession</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Cooper  and Makiko Kitamura</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[At 6:30 p.m. on a Friday, Frank Sinatra&#8217;s &#8220;Strangers in the Night&#8221; fills the lobby of the Hotel Mario outside Tokyo. A couple scans a board showing photos of the 50 rooms, which can be rented for a few hours. Only three are left. Japan&#8217;s 25,000 love hotels are making money even as companies such [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Honda weathers crisis with Asia motorbike niche</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Makiko Kitamura  and Tetsuya Komatsu</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Vanida Paipong, a 33-year-old noodle factory worker in Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand, will pay installments of 5,000 baht (about &#165;13,600) a month on her 100cc Honda CZ-i motorcycle. She bought the bike in February after her last Honda motorbike lasted 10 years, hauling friends and family over dirt roads, without needing much maintenance, she said. &#8220;That [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grandson to inherit a carmaker in decline</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Naoko Fujimura  and Makiko Kitamura</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Akio Toyoda, grandson of Toyota Motor Corp.&#8217;s founder and the company&#8217;s next president, will confront a challenge largely unknown to his ancestors &#8212; decline. Toyoda, 52, will succeed Katsuaki Watanabe, 66, as president of Toyota this year, sources have said. He will take over as the carmaker&#8217;s two largest markets, the United States and Japan, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Muscle cars giving &#8216;otaku&#8217; new platforms to flex their fetishes</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:01:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Makiko Kitamura</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Masaya Taniguchi has a &#8220;heartache&#8221; plastered across the hood of his flaming red Audi TT Roadster. Her name is Mashiro Mito, a teenage character from his favorite computer game with melancholic eyes and pink ribbons in chestnut hair. Taniguchi, 28, is an &#8220;otaku,&#8221; a geek freak for &#8220;manga&#8221; comic books, &#8220;anime&#8221; animation movies and video [...]]]></description>
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