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	<title>The Japan Times &#187; Michael Hoffman</title>
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		<title>Tense times in Japan&#8217;s relationships with its neighbors</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Mar 2013 15:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Hoffman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It's a dangerous, unpredictable world. Twice in January Chinese warships in the East China Sea challenged Japan's Maritime Self Defense Forces patrols in a manner deemed threatening. And on Feb. 12 came North Korea's nuclear test.]]></description>
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		<title>Solution to bullying lies in &#8216;resetting&#8217; culprits</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Mar 2013 15:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Hoffman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The biggest problem in Japanese education is the idea that you can eliminate bullying by reforming the system.&#8221; That provocative statement opens an article in Shukan Gendai by the eminent Catholic novelist and conservative thinker Ayako Sono. It is provocative because the prevailing view is that bullying, not the effort to eliminate it, is the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hiding from strangers in the global village</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2013 15:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Hoffman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In his 1993 novel &#8220;Hanauzumi,&#8221; Junichi Watanabe pictures a prosperous farming village in Saitama. The year is 1868. The Meiji Restoration has just occurred. The shogun has been overthrown. The teenage Emperor Meiji has been conveyed from the ancient imperial capital of Kyoto and installed in Tokyo. Great changes are afoot, pregnant with greater ones [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The evolution of Japan&#8217;s turn away from Confucian ideas</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2013 15:11:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Hoffman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japanese political thought]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA["The evolution of political thought in this relatively isolated island nation during the period in question is unique to the point of being somewhat freakish,” writes political thought scholar Hiroshi Watanabe of the University of Tokyo. ]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Abenomics&#8217; will either make or break Japan&#8217;s economy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2013 15:10:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Hoffman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[This story is concerned with money, vast sums of it, amounts quite beyond most people’s imagination. The operative word is chō (兆, trillion).]]></description>
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		<title>Constitutional revision may bring less freedom</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2013 15:38:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Hoffman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Article 18 of Japan&#8217;s Constitution states, &#8220;No person shall be held in bondage of any kind. Involuntary servitude, except as punishment for crime, is prohibited.&#8221; And Article 97 declares, &#8220;The fundamental human rights by this Constitution guaranteed to the people of Japan are fruits of the age-old struggle of man to be free; they have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nothing much compels reader to sympathize with characters</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2013 09:45:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Hoffman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[O Chonghui]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[River of Fire]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[RIVER OF FIRE and Other Stories, by O Chonghui. Translated by Bruce and Ju-chan Fulton. Columbia University Press, 2012, 224 pp., $27.50 (hardcover) I can&#8217;t remember a book of fiction that felt as much like a force-feeding as this one has. It seems only fair to say that O Chonghui enjoys a considerable reputation in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan&#8217;s growing diaspora reflects concern for the country&#8217;s future</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2013 10:47:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Hoffman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[John Lennon]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a surprising fact: One Japanese in a hundred lives abroad. It&#8217;s surprising because so much is made lately of Japan&#8217;s growing insularity. Young people seem less interested than ever in studying overseas, and voters last month elected a new government whose platform includes strong doses of patriotism and patriotic education — necessary, advocates say, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No loss for words when expressing scale of DPJ&#8217;s defeat</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2013 00:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Hoffman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[December&#8217;s election aftermath offered a good chance to learn synonyms for &#8220;crushing defeat&#8221; and &#8220;overwhelming victory.&#8221; Taihai (大敗, great defeat), kanpai (完敗, total defeat) &#8212; not to be confused with kanpai! (乾杯, cheers!) &#8212; kaimetsutekina haiboku (壊滅的な敗北, annihilating defeat), zanpai (惨敗, crushing defeat), rekishitekina haiboku (歴史的な敗北, historic defeat) on the one side; taisho (大勝, great [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Additives: Let&#8217;s hope we are not what we eat</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jan 2013 00:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Hoffman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Four-legged chickens In a book published last year titled &#8220;Shoku wo Kangaeru&#8221; (&#8220;Thinking about Food&#8221;), plant geneticist Yoichiro Sato describes his surprise when told by an elementary school teacher that many children nowadays draw chickens with four legs. Impossible, he thought. On second thought, maybe not. He tried an experiment with his own university students. [...]]]></description>
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