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	<title>The Japan Times &#187; Mio Yamada</title>
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		<title>The poster nation of unusual graphic design</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Sep 2013 14:10:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mio Yamada</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Art often thrives as it wriggles out from under a big heavy rock. This can be said about creativity in Czechoslovakia from the 1960s to &#8217;80s. As the nation broke free of Stalinism, careered toward the Prague Spring and then finally celebrated the end of Communism in 1989, music, art and film began mixing messages [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Darren Johnston: dance&#8217;s accidental controversialist</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Aug 2013 14:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mio Yamada</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[dance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Darren Johnston]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[multimedia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In 2003, prominent arts writer Allen Robertson wrote in The Times: &#8220;If there was a Turner Prize for dance, Darren Johnston would undoubtedly be on the shortlist.&#8221; Robertson was referring to the creator of &#8220;Silicon Sensorium,&#8221; which played to packed audiences at the Purcell Room of London&#8217;s Southbank Centre. A futuristic multimedia piece, it featured [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Big works buoyed by Dojima River&#8217;s &#8216;Little Water&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Jul 2013 14:20:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mio Yamada</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dojima River Biennale]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Osaka]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Standing in front of the largest work at the Dojima River Biennale, currently showing at the Dojima River Forum in Fukushima, Osaka, is a mesmerizing experience. A 10-meter-tall digital projection of an ethereal cascading waterfall, it glows mysteriously as its gentle rumbling permeates the dimly lit space. &#8220;This is by teamLab, a group that combines [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Architecture and art of a Setouchi summer</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jul 2013 14:10:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mio Yamada</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ando Museum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Benesse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Naoshima]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seto Inland Sea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Setouchi Triennale]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Soichiro Fukutake]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tadao Ando]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In 1988, Soichiro Fukutake, then president and representative director of Fukutake Publishing (now Benesse Corporation), approached architect Tadao Ando and told him that he wanted to create a "utopia" in Japan. ]]></description>
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		<title>Good, clean fun at Ito tub race</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jul 2013 14:02:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mio Yamada</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ito]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shizuoka]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tarai-nori Kyoso]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Washtub Boat Race]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The seaside town of Ito, Shizuoka Prefecture, is well known for its dark, sandy beaches, hot springs, giant koi carp and spectacular summer fireworks displays. But it also holds one of the strangest and silliest traditions in the region — the Tarai-nori Kyoso, otherwise known as the Washtub Boat Race. Every first Sunday of July, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What provoked Japan&#8217;s contemporary photography?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jun 2013 15:06:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mio Yamada</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[1968]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Daido Moriyama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kazuo Kitai]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[konpora]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nobuyoshi Araki]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1968, as the world reeled from The Prague Spring, the turbulent union and student strikes in France, and the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Japan, like so many other nations, found itself in the midst of social unrest. Citizens questioned the West&#8217;s involvement in the Vietnam War, and as the nation&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Smuggling art into fashion</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 15:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mio Yamada</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Erwin Blumenfeld]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In 1943, in the midst of World War II, a U.S. Army propaganda drop over Berlin distributed leaflets bearing gruesome images of Adolf Hitler&#8217;s face partially obscured by a calf&#8217;s skull. Those who dared to pick one up would never have guessed that the artist who created that foreboding picture was born in Berlin — [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Edward Steichen&#8217;s great American Dream</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2013 15:35:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mio Yamada</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Edward Steichen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fashion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[photography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Setagaya Art Museum]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[“I don’t think that many people in Japan know who Edward Steichen is,” says curator Miki Tsukada in a surprisingly honest comment about visitors to the Setagaya Art Museum’s current exhibition.]]></description>
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		<title>The future of fabrics woven with the past</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/02/21/arts/the-future-of-fabrics-woven-with-the-past/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-future-of-fabrics-woven-with-the-past</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2013 15:22:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mio Yamada</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[fabric]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Junichi Arai]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[textile]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The textile work of Junichi Arai is renowned for its complexity and innovation. Often three-dimensional in nature, his fabrics appear as undulating landscapes of puckering, crumpling, puffs, pleats and protruding felted yarns. Many of them glimmer with metallic or translucent sheens, some seem understated in natural creams, browns and blacks, while others reveal woven patterns [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chips and Art Garden make art accessible to everyone</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2012/08/24/events/chips-and-art-garden-make-art-accessible-to-everyone/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=chips-and-art-garden-make-art-accessible-to-everyone</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2012 00:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mio Yamada</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not easy for young artists to show their work to the public and get feedback, or for the public to find artworks that they can easily afford. This is where Giant Mango steps in. Jun Kurazume, the organization&#8217;s founder and manager explains: &#8220;We find different approaches to helping artists and designers exhibit beyond the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From Comme des Garcons to Somarta, Japanese fashion excels at weaving past, present and future</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2012 00:01:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mio Yamada</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1981, while Western designers focused on shoulder-padded power suits, bright colors, sharp stiletto heels and statement jewelry, Yohji Yamamoto and Comme des Garcons&#8217; Rei Kawakubo sent their models down the runway in defiant black, voluminously draped garments, accessorized with nothing but flat shoes. It was the Paris debut of both Japanese designers, and they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christian Boltanski&#8217;s mesmeric &#8220;No Man&#8217;s Land&#8221; draws visitors to the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale 2012&#8242;s new Satoyama Museum of Contemporary Art</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2012 00:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mio Yamada</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Christian Boltanski&#8217;s &#8220;No Man&#8217;s Land&#8221; is both daunting and mesmerizing. It&#8217;s difficult to take your eyes off the 20-ton mound of clothing, which at 9 meters tall dwarfs an accompanying crane that tosses on more T-shirts, trousers and dresses with a giant claw. &#8220;There will also be the sound of heartbeats,&#8221; said Miwa Worrall, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Architect Andrew Burns and artist Brook Andrew introduce Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale&#8217;s new Australia House</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2012 00:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mio Yamada</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Surely, post 3/11, post Global Financial Crisis, we need to make buildings and spaces that are simple and allow us to remember essential things,&#8221; says Andrew Burns, the architect behind the new Australia House in Urada, Tokamachi City. Burns&#8217; design &#8212; a triangular structure incorporating a large open studio space/gallery and a loft for artists [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Being in the doghouse is not always a bad thing</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2012 00:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mio Yamada  and Danielle Demetriou</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Joseph Kosuth, an American artist famous for conceptual, text-centric works, just put one of his good friends &#8212; Joni Waka &#8212; in the doghouse. Joni didn&#8217;t do anything to upset Kosuth. Quite the contrary. &#8220;The Dog House&#8221; is Joni&#8217;s new home. It is also a public art installation, designed by Kosuth as a thank-you to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Takeshi Kitano takes on a different beat</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 00:01:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mio Yamada</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I want you to have fun. It&#8217;s the only aim of this exhibition,&#8221; said Takeshi &#8220;Beat&#8221; Kitano when &#8220;Gosse de peintre&#8221; originally opened at Fondation Cartier pour l&#8217;art contemporain in Paris two years ago. For an artist, that&#8217;s quite an unusual goal &#8212; but then Kitano is not your usual artist. In fact, the famous [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The precious qualities of today&#8217;s art jewelry</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 00:01:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>The precious qualities of today&#8217;s art jewelry</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 00:01:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>&#8220;Irving Penn and Issey Miyake: Visual Dialogue&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 00:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[21_21 Design SightCloses April 8 In 1953, when Irving Penn opened his studio in New York, he famously announced that &#8220;photographing cake can be art.&#8221; Then already a renowned fashion photographer, Penn went on to prove that photographing almost anything can be art. His shoots for American Vogue are instantly recognizable. Stark, static and bold, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Good Design Exhibition 2011&#8243;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 00:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Design Hub, Tokyo Midtown Closes Nov. 13 Most people associate good design with stylish hit products, such as the Olympus third-generation Pen digital camera. Retro-styled on the brand&#8217;s original 1959 Pen 35-mm film camera and equipped with all the mod cons of a high-tech SLR, the Pen is a beautiful piece of work, which is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Japan&#8217;s long-selling products&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 00:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[P&#38;P Gallery/Printing Museum, TokyoCloses Nov. 6 If you have ever seen a product on a store shelf in Japan and thought that its packaging was surprisingly retro, the reason could be that its design hasn&#8217;t actually changed much in the years since it was originally conceived. O&#8217;Band rubber bands, for example, still come in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Kokeshi Doll Exhibition&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 00:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[CLASKA Gallery &#38; Shop &#8220;Do&#8221; Closes July 31 For a popular souvenir of Japan, the traditional wooden kokeshi doll has a surprisingly little-documented history. While it&#8217;s known that they were first made sometime during the mid- to late-Edo Period (1603-1867) in the northeastern region of Tohoku, their original purpose is unclear. They have been known [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ArtGig offers &#8216;Dirty, dirty! Sex, sex!&#8217; &#8212; for free</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2011 00:02:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>&#8216;Artists&#8217; Action For Japan&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 00:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tokyo Midtown Atrium April 23-24 If you&#8217;re an art student of limited means, what can you do to help the relief efforts for the Great Eastern earthquake and tsunami? The students of Tokyo University of Arts came up with one idea: Artists&#8217; Action For Japan, a series of public art sales, offering works that they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inside a construction site of an artist&#8217;s mind</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 00:01:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tokyo-based Scottish artist Jack McLean&#8217;s creepy-cute anthropomorphized planks of wood are weird enough on their own, but crammed together inside The Container, a new art space in Tokyo&#8217;s Naka-Meguro district, they are even more unnerving. Huddled in corners, leaning against walls and hanging precariously from the ceiling of a space the size and shape of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Wing Shya: Female Trouble&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 00:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gallery Speak For Closes March 2 Hong Kong-based Wing Shya is primarily a fashion photographer, known for edgy editorial spreads in Britain&#8217;s iD, French Vogue, Japan&#8217;s Men&#8217;s no-no magazines and more, so it&#8217;s not surprising that he has chosen stunningly beautiful women as the subjects of &#8220;Female Trouble.&#8221; Many of the women&#8217;s poses are reminiscent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Realizing the genius of Leonardo da Vinci</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jan 2011 00:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A temporary pavilion in Tokyo&#8217;s Hibiya Park seems like an unlikely venue for showcasing the hallowed works of Leonardo da Vinci, but for this particular exhibition, the big top-like structure is appropriate. &#8220;Leonardo da Vinci: The Genius&#8221; is aimed straight at the general public. Designed, produced, branded and marketed by Grande Exhibitions, the company that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Catalysis for Life: New Language of Dutch Art and Design&#8217;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo Closes Jan. 30 In the design world, if there is one nation that has the knack of being self-referentially humorous, it has to be the Dutch. Take a look at its entry to the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai. Instead of designing a pavilion, the Netherlands opted to build an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rethinking traditional urushi lacquerware</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[London, it appears, is a good place to learn about both past and present Japan. Last year, as Britain celebrated 150 years of cultural exchange with Japan, it hosted a number of major shows, including a large-scale matsuri (festival) in Spitalfields Market, a comprehensive exhibition of Utagawa Kuniyoshi woodblock prints at the Royal Academy of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Going back to school for alternative art</title>
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		<title>Science exhibition / &#8216;Sensor in the Life&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sony ExploraScience &#8220;Sensor in the Life&#8221; closes Aug. 31 In a survey conducted by the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture in 2003, science was ranked as the subject school students thought to be the least important to learn, even though it was also listed as their favorite. Perhaps children see science as fun but [...]]]></description>
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