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	<title>The Japan Times &#187; Masami Ito</title>
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		<title>Assemblyman&#8217;s rebuke of moms seeking day care draws outrage</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2013 15:15:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Masami Ito</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Suginami Ward]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Mothers should remember that the responsibility of raising children lies first with each household before making &#8220;shameless&#8221; demands for more nursery schools, a Suginami Ward Assembly member wrote Feb. 21 in his blog, drawing hundreds of angry comments. Yutaro Tanaka, a member of the local Liberal Democratic Party chapter, was criticizing a group of mothers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The long arm of the antipiracy law</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2013 15:10:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Masami Ito</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[pirates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Somalia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Captured half a world away, off the coast of Oman in the Indian Ocean, four Somalis are sent to Tokyo to stand trial for piracy after a failed attempt to hijack an oil tanker. Three have already been convicted by the Tokyo District Court.]]></description>
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		<title>Somali teenager gets five to nine for piracy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 16:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Masami Ito</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[pirate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ruling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Somalia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[An 18-year-old Somali is sentenced to five to nine years by the Tokyo District Court for boarding and attempting to hijack a Bahama-registered oil tanker off Africa in March 2011.]]></description>
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		<title>Metro government&#8217;s Senkaku donations gathering dust</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2013 15:15:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Masami Ito</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[senkakus]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The &#165;1.48 billion that the Tokyo Metropolitan Government collected in donations to buy and maintain the Senkakus is just lying idle, waiting to be used, after the central government nipped in to snag the disputed islets in September. Money began pouring from last April after Tokyo&#8217;s hawkish governor at the time, Shintaro Ishihara, said the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Suicide prompts wife to sue Tepco</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 15:02:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Masami Ito</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[filipino]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fukushima disaster]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The last words that a Fukushima dairy farmer said to his wife in the Philippines over the phone on the morning of June 10, 2011, was to make sure that she and their children ate well, stayed healthy and didn&#8217;t return to Japan. Later that day, he hanged himself at his farm in Soma. His [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three murderers sent to the gallows</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 11:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Masami Ito</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[death penalty]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kaoru Kobayashi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sadakazu Tanigaki]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Three death-row inmates are hanged, in Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka, the first executions carried out under the new Liberal Democratic Party-led government.]]></description>
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		<title>Pro-Pyongyang schools barred from tuition waiver</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/02/21/national/pro-pyongyang-schools-barred-from-tuition-waiver/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=pro-pyongyang-schools-barred-from-tuition-waiver</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2013 15:27:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Masami Ito</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chyongryon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tuition waver]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Pro-Pyongyang high schools are banned from the government's tuition-waiver program, almost three years after every student in Japan was declared eligible to receive the financial aid.]]></description>
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		<title>Wiped out city waits for Tokyo to wake up</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2013 15:14:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Masami Ito</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Futoshi Toba]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mayor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rikuzentakata]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It has been almost two years since much of Tohoku&#8217;s coastline was wiped out by tsunami on March 11. Gone are many of the destroyed buildings and vehicles that served as reminders of the horror and tragedy caused by the monster earthquake in the Pacific. But in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, instead of concrete signs of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>12-year term urged in Somalis&#8217; piracy trial</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/01/29/national/12-year-term-urged-in-somalis-piracy-trial/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=12-year-term-urged-in-somalis-piracy-trial</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2013 01:43:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Masami Ito</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[pirates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Somaili]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trial]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Prosecutors on Monday demanded 12-year prison terms for two Somalis being tried on charges of boarding and attempting to hijack a Bahama-registered oil tanker operated by a Japanese company in the Indian Ocean in 2011. This is the first case being prosecuted under the 2009 antipiracy law, which stipulates that those found guilty can be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Naming slain captives raises privacy issues</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2013 14:17:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Masami Ito</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Algeria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hostage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[privacy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The victims&#8217; right to privacy was pitted against the public&#8217;s right to know as the media pressed for the names of the Algerian hostage crisis victims to be disclosed while the government and JGC Corp. remained tight-lipped, but Tokyo finally caved Friday, revealing the identities of the firm&#8217;s 10 slain employees. The government, however, was [...]]]></description>
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