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		<title>Navigating the Tokyo high school minefield: a foreign parent&#8217;s tale</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2013 13:44:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not too long ago, I heard from a foreign resident of Tokyo looking for a high school for her daughter, a 14-year-old who will begin her final year of junior high in April. Both parent and child were extremely excited about recently discovering a nearby public school featuring a cosmopolitan atmosphere and encouraging the development [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Green-fingered gaijin reaps alien harvest in Tokyo</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jul 2012 00:01:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Hassett</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Dazed and drenched within Tokyo&#8217;s oppressive summer furnace, I peered up from my squat through the prism of perspiration in my eyelids to see a figure I had gradually come to know as the grumpy ol&#8217; garden drunk. &#8220;When &#8216;ja plant &#8216;dem cucumbers?&#8221; he slurred, fingering a tall can of tepid happ&#333;shu in his rustic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan&#8217;s battered men suffer abuse in silence</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2012 00:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Hassett</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[As in many surveys, numbers and percentages are abundant. But for me, it was that little 3.4 at the bottom of page 21 that stood out more than any other: 3.4 percent of married men in Japan say that their spouses have forced them to engage in sexual relations against their will. And that is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taking stock of a generation of changes</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 00:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Hassett</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Ch-ch-ch-ch-changesTurn and face the strangeCh-ch-changesPretty soon now, you&#8217;re gonna get older Rolling Stone suggested that the lyrics to &#8220;Changes&#8221; by David Bowie could be &#8220;construed as a young man&#8217;s attempt to reckon how he&#8217;ll react when it&#8217;s his time to be on the maligned side of the generation schism.&#8221; A generation is often marked by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Children say the darndest things</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2008 00:01:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Hassett</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Another holiday season is upon us. There is a nip in the air, lights of all colors twinkle throughout neighborhoods and cityscapes across the country, and holiday cheer radiates throughout our schools, workplaces and communities. During this festive time, friends and families often come together in true fellowship over good food and drink, and companionship [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Obama for Japan: Yes, we can?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Hassett</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[On the long, unwinding railroad, on the sixth day &#8212; the day that, according to Christian texts, God created Man &#8212; a great dissatisfaction seeped into me as I continued to bask in the pride of seeing the majority of my fellow Americans transcend race in the selection of the next president of the United [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coming out of the shadows</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:01:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Hassett</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;We judge that it will be best for the child that the (parent) pray from the shadows for his healthy upbringing. If worried about the child, ask about him through others, secretly watch him from behind a wall, and be satisfied with what is heard about the way he is growing up. Acting in accordance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Custody battles: an unfair fight</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:01:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Hassett</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Sport at its best obliterates divisions between peoples, such as ostentatious flag-waving and exaggerated national sentiment.&#8221; New York Times senior writer Howard W. French &#8212; who has covered China for the past five years, was Tokyo bureau chief from 1999 to 2003, and has lived overseas for all but 3 1/2 years since 1979 &#8212; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where did all the babies go?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 00:01:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Hassett</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Wednesday, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare announced that Japan&#8217;s total fertility rate (TFR) &#8212; the average number of babies born to women during their reproductive years &#8212; rose slightly to 1.34 for 2007, even though about 3,000 fewer children were born last year than in 2006. Two years ago the TFR was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. military crime: SOFA so good?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 00:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Hassett</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[On Friday night, Aug. 18, 2006, at a third-story apartment within a gated community outside Atlanta, Ga., 31-year-old Kendrick Ledet sat contemplating life. And death. Ledet was familiar with various forms of high-tech weaponry &#8212; particularly the semi-automatic M-16 rifle &#8212; but on this day he decided to go low-tech, departing from us slowly by [...]]]></description>
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