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	<title>The Japan Times &#187; Philip Brasor</title>
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		<title>Students convenient proxies in LDP&#8217;s Pyongyang angst</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Mar 2013 15:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Brasor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[North Korean schools in Japan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Since returning to power late last year, the Liberal Democratic Party has said it will dismantle some of the social programs the Democratic Party of Japan implemented during its short reign. Education Minister Hakubun Shimomura announced at the end of January that he will introduce a new shogakkin system for high school and university students [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan&#8217;s vegetarians stay in the closet</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2013 15:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Brasor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Animal rights]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, entertainment-related media in the U.S. reported that the American Broadcasting Corporation had rejected an advertisement the animal-rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals wanted to air during the Academy Awards ceremony, which takes place early tomorrow morning Tokyo time.]]></description>
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		<title>Judo scandal casts doubt on Olympic bid</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2013 15:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Brasor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[judo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media Mix]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[olympics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[News stories don&#8217;t exist in a vacuum. What often makes them &#8220;news&#8221; is a confluence of factors that provide a context of interest. Though the public thinks the current story about 15 female judo athletes (jūdōka) demanding fundamental changes to the way the national team is structured and run is a self-contained news item, it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taro Aso may, for once, have a point</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2013 11:34:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Brasor</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever since the Liberal Democratic Party regained power last year, standard-bearer Shinzo Abe has been conspicuously cautious with his public pronouncements, cooling it on the nationalist rhetoric and keeping the bravado to a minimum. Deprived of excitement, the media was delighted by Vice Prime Minister Taro Aso&#8217;s comment, made at a government meeting to discuss [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Building your home can come at quite a cost</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2013 10:10:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Brasor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[estate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[land]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lots]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[real]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vacant]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[People in the market for new single-family houses usually don&#8217;t worry as much about the land those houses occupy because they tend to work with developers, who purchase huge tracts and then subdivide them. The customer buys the land and the house as a package, though the authorities see it as two purchases and assess [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Celebrity bloggers not required to disclose paid endorsements</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2013 15:48:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Brasor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[blog]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[celebrity]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In December several celebrities were forced to apologize publicly for stating on their personal blogs that they had &#8220;won&#8221; items on so-called penny auction websites when, in fact, they hadn&#8217;t. Penny auction sites, which first appeared in Germany in 2005, offer people the chance to bid online for merchandise, but because these transactions occur in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No room for subtleties when laying off workers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2013 09:45:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Brasor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Employment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Layoffs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lifetime employment system]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oidashi beya]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to a feature that appeared on the front page of the Dec. 31 issue of the Asahi Shimbun, oidashi beya is the first topical neologism of 2013 if you don&#8217;t count &#8220;Abenomics.&#8221; It&#8217;s not clear if the term, which translates as &#8220;expulsion room,&#8221; was coined by the newspaper, but since then the blogosphere and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beating kids to create &#8216;fighting spirit&#8217; in sport doesn&#8217;t translate</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2013 10:44:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Brasor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[corporal punishment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Osaka]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sports konjo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[suicide]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In a recent interview on the Barnes &#38; Noble Review website promoting his latest book, historian Jared Diamond mentions how treatment of the young &#8220;varies among traditional societies just as it varies among industrial societies,&#8221; and gives examples of how some of the former use corporal punishment for discipline purposes while others &#8220;consider it utterly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mascots bear cash for local authorities</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2013 00:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Brasor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Kumamon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shinzo Abe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[yurukyara]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In September 2007, after Shinzo Abe had abruptly quit his first stint as prime minister, sales of Shin-chan Manju, a bean-paste-filled bun named after Abe, spiked. The maker of the buns had tried to promote the product over the course of Abe&#8217;s year as the Liberal Democratic Party leader, changing its name in line with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan&#8217;s farming could be going to seed</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jan 2013 00:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Brasor</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Tis the season for predictions, and last week Hiromasa Yonekura, the chairman of the Japan Business Federation (Nippon Keidanren), told Asahi Shimbun he believed Japan will decide in 2013 to take part in the Trans-Pacific Partnership talks. Yonekura is also chairman of Sumitomo Chemical, which in 2010 signed a tie-up agreement with American agrichemical giant [...]]]></description>
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