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	<title>The Japan Times &#187; Mizuho Aoki</title>
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		<title>Senkaku showdown taxing forces</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 15:02:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mizuho Aoki</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The past few months have put the Japan Coast Guard and Air Self-Defense Force to the test, as they defend the nation&#8217;s territorial waters and airspace around the Senkaku islets in the East China Sea, a flash point for potential military clashes with China. China continues to send ships around the Japan-controlled islets, which are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>For Abe, overcoming perceptions top job at Obama summit</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2013 15:19:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mizuho Aoki</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Prime Minister Shinzo Abe travels to Washington this week for a summit with U.S. President Barack Obama, his first job may be to convince the president he&#8217;s not a rightwing fanatic seeking confrontation in East Asia, but rather a calm partner who can work with the Americans to maintain peace and stability in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Evacuee suits target Tepco, government</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2013 15:18:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mizuho Aoki</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fukushima residents forced out of their homes by the nuclear crisis plan to file group damages suits against the government and Tepco on the second anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake. ]]></description>
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		<title>Chinese target-locked MSDF ship, chopper</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2013 15:49:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mizuho Aoki</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chinese warships directed their fire-control radar on a Japanese destroyer and a helicopter last month in the East China Sea, the Defense Ministry says.]]></description>
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		<title>Cyclists who flout law face charges</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2013 14:48:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mizuho Aoki</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Traffic accidents have witnessed an overall decline in recent years, but the percentage of cases involving bicycles is on the rise. National Police Agency data show bicycles were involved in 20.8 percent of all traffic accidents in 2011, up 18.5 percent from 2001.]]></description>
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		<title>Weakening yen starts to hurt pocketbooks</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 15:08:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While the easing yen is a welcome development for exporting companies, it is slowly starting to cast a shadow on family budgets, pushing up the price of gasoline and other daily necessities. The average retail price of regular gasoline has gone up for eight consecutive weeks, reaching &#165;151.2 per liter Monday, &#165;5.7 more than it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Take a breather from Senkaku dispute, ex-envoy to China says</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2013 15:43:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mizuho Aoki</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Former Ambassador to China Uichiro Niwa has an optimistic view about Japan&#8217;s current soured relations with Beijing, saying things will probably be on the mend by cherry blossom season. &#8220;Japan-China relations have entered a very difficult phase. . . . But I&#8217;ve been saying that by the time cherry trees blossom, there would be a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ASDF jets scrambled 160 times against China planes between April, December</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 15:18:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mizuho Aoki</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the nine months, ASDF fighter jets were scrambled 349 times in total, up 14 from the same period in fiscal 2011, says the ministry's Joint Staff Office.]]></description>
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		<title>Nation&#8217;s firms lured by Algeria&#8217;s resources</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2013 15:31:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mizuho Aoki</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Engineering firm JGC Corp., whose employees are believed to have been taken hostage Wednesday by Islamist militants in Algeria, is just one of many Japanese companies making inroads in the resource-rich country. &#8220;In the North African region, Algeria and Libya are the two important hubs for Japanese companies, not only because they have rich natural [...]]]></description>
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		<title>As radiation fears dwindle, so do checkups</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mizuho Aoki</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[When Dr. Masaharu Tsubokura began checking the internal radiation exposure levels of Minamisoma residents four months after the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant experienced three reactor core meltdowns, many were living in fear, not knowing what kind of dangers they were being exposed to by living in Fukushima Prefecture. All available dates for checking [...]]]></description>
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