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		<title>Overseas voyages by retirees include more than a few shipwrecks</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2013 15:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Schreiber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1986, shortly before the beginning of Japan&#8217;s &#8220;bubble economy,&#8221; a department in the former Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) announced a plan named Silver Columbia 92. The project encouraged Japan&#8217;s private sector to develop &#8220;silver towns,&#8221; communities abroad that would attract large numbers of Japanese retirees. The United States, Spain, Mexico, Canada, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can-can dancers, tea-time snacks and katakana confusion</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2013 15:15:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Schreiber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In last month&#8217;s column, I looked at the origins of several famous Japanese product brands. Thinking back, perhaps the very first brand I noticed here was a confectioner named 文明堂 (Bunmeido). The company, a 老舗 (shinise, well-established shop), was founded in Nagasaki in 1900, taking its name from 文明開化 (bunmei kaika, the opening of Japan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lots of blame, but few solutions to terrorist attacks abroad</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2013 15:11:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Schreiber</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Algeria hostage crisis]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On Jan. 16, Islamic militants believed led by the elusive commander Mokhtar Belmokhtar struck a natural-gas processing plant in Ain Amenas, Algeria. In the rescue attempt by units of Algeria's army, as many as 81 people may have died, among which were 10 Japanese employees of JGC Corporation.]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s in a Japanese name? More than you might expect</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2013 15:17:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Schreiber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last year I went to Yumenoshima Park in Tokyo&#8217;s Koto Ward to see a museum housing the 第五福竜丸 (Dai-go Fukuryu Maru, aka No. 5 Lucky Dragon), the ill-fated fishing boat that inadvertently sailed too close to a 水爆実験 (suibaku jikken, thermonuclear test) at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands in March 1954. This led me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paying a record tuna price is simply good advertising</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2013 09:45:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Schreiber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Even considering that Ooma tuna is a prestige brand, its tuna might normally sell for about ¥4,000 to ¥5,000 per kilogram,” a seafood trader tells Nikkan Gendai (Jan. 8). ]]></description>
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		<title>Hit product lists laud the year&#8217;s marketing successes</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2013 00:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Schreiber</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Toward the end of every year, Japan&#8217;s print media and many business organizations look back on &#8220;hit products&#8221; whose successes helped define consumer spending over the previous 12 months. The term hitto shōhin (hit products) is credited to the 日経流通新聞 (Nikkei Ryutsu Shimbun, Nikkei Marketing Journal), a thrice-weekly newspaper covering retailing and marketing that was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Magazines struggle to maintain relevance</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2013 00:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Schreiber</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The print edition of venerable U.S. weekly news magazine Newsweek is no more. From the Jan. 4 issue it relaunched as a digital-only publication. Writing in the final print edition of Dec. 31, 2012, Editor in Chief Tina Brown wrote, &#8220;A magazine that will soon turn 80 will now be, when all the changes are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alternative histories about JFK</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Dec 2012 00:01:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Schreiber</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The 50th anniversary of the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy next November is expected to see a flood of new works on that topic. Two alternative history novels have already appeared on this theme. In Stephen King&#8217;s &#8220;11/22/63: A Novel&#8221; (Scribner), Maine high school teacher Jake Epping finds a portal by which he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Buzzwords show the changing face of Japanese in 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2012 00:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Schreiber</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[While hamming it up before the TV cameras on a diving board last September, entertainer &#8220;Sugi-chan&#8221; (real name: Eiji Sugiyama) suffered a fractured thoracic vertebrae. Wild, right? Or as the chunky 39-year-old entertainer &#8212; easily recognizable in his blue denim shirt with cutoff sleeves and short pants &#8212; likes to put it, ワイルドだろぉ (wairudo dar&#333;, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan loses its cool as South Korea heats up</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Dec 2012 00:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Schreiber</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Last month, a nationwide survey of 3,000 people by the Cabinet office found that the percentage of Japanese who do not view South Korea on friendly terms rose to 59 percent, up by 23.7 points from 2011. The sharply negative shift appeared to reverse over a decade of warming relations between the two countries. Those [...]]]></description>
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