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		<title>Akiko Kuno&#8217;s strength as a woman stretches back through generations</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2013 15:30:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Akiko Kuno, 72, believes her destiny is tied with a red string to the United States. So she says as she speaks of her and her family&#8217;s life at the Foreign Correspondents&#8217; Club of Japan in Tokyo, where as a child she first tasted Coca-Cola and a hamburger. Kuno&#8217;s red string stretches back through her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Horsemeat fan vs. the neigh-sayers</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2013 15:10:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few dabs of equine DNA found in so-called "beefburgers" caused quite a kerfuffle last month, shocking unsuspecting customers of the British supermarket chain Tesco (and then other stores) into outrage.]]></description>
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		<title>In era of skyscrapers, group lobbies to keep Tokyo&#8217;s traditional buildings</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Dec 2012 00:01:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Kleindl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sitting at a wooden table in the glass-enclosed sun room of the miraculously preserved 95-year-old Yasuda House, Sumiko Enbutsu, a very youthful 78, radiates enthusiasm. The house, a superb example of Taisho Era architecture and construction techniques, is now owned by the Japan National Trust. But for over 70 years it was the residence of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In era of skyscrapers, group lobbies to keep Tokyo&#8217;s traditional buildings</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Dec 2012 00:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Kleindl</dc:creator>
		
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		<title>Canadian musician pens piece for &#8216;Tsunami violin&#8217; performances</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Sep 2012 00:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Kleindl</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Four months ago, Miguel Sosa, a composer, concert pianist, conductor and teacher was asked by Taizo Oba, organizer of the Bond Made of 1,000 Tones project, to write an original composition for one of the two &#8220;tsunami-debris&#8221; violins. Sosa&#8217;s first thought was &#8220;Me? Really? I never saw myself as someone who would be doing a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In wake of 3/11 disasters, successful Italian helps those who helped him</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jul 2012 00:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Kleindl</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[After 21 years in Japan and for most of that time working 15 hours a day, Calabrian restaurateur Elio Ermanno Orsara has achieved a certain measure of success. The foyer of his restaurant, Elio Locanda Italiana, in Tokyo&#8217;s Kojimachi district, is a gallery of framed awards, commendations, testimonials, as well as copies of Italian newspaper [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grateful architect has grand designs in store for disaster-prone Japan</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 00:01:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Kleindl</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The first thought that tumbled through architect Albert Abut&#8217;s head as he sat in his car watching an intersection in Shibuya undulate last year during the Great East Japan Earthquake was &#8220;Is my family safe?&#8221; A quick call to his wife confirmed she and their 6-year-old daughter were fine. His second concern as he watched [...]]]></description>
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