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	<title>The Japan Times &#187; Reiji Yoshida</title>
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		<title>Japan to join F-35 parts output, export strategy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 15:50:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Reiji Yoshida</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Japan plans to join the global parts-sharing system for F-35 stealth jet production, in an exception to its long-held principle of not exporting weapons or their components.]]></description>
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		<title>Government finds plenty to criticize in Algerian crisis response</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 15:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Reiji Yoshida</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reviewing its response to the Algerian hostage crisis last month, the government admitted Thursday it doesn&#8217;t have enough Arabic-speaking diplomats or military attaches in Africa, making it nearly impossible to gather sufficient intelligence. According to a 19-page interim report, the embassy in Algeria &#8212; the largest African country in terms of area &#8212; was staffed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abe plays it safe in Diet speech</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 10:47:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Reiji Yoshida</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Delivering a key policy speech to the Diet, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says no country should resort to force to "change the status quo" regarding territorial disputes, in an apparent warning to China.]]></description>
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		<title>Diet asked to OK Kuroda as next BOJ chief; opposition seen falling into line</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 10:46:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Reiji Yoshida</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Haruhiko Kuroda, a strong advocate of aggressive monetary easing, is officially nominated as the next Bank of Japan governor.]]></description>
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		<title>Park to usher in new era of friendship, or side with China?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 16:30:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Reiji Yoshida</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Park Geun Hye]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shinzo Abe]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Park Geun Hye was inaugurated Monday as South Korea&#8217;s first female president, ushering in what many in Japan hope will be a new era in improved bilateral relations, which were strained by her predecessor, Lee Myung Bak. But experts in Japan are unsure if Park will deliver on such hopes, although in Japan she is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Running in circles DPJ&#8217;s way forward</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Feb 2013 15:08:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Reiji Yoshida</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Democratic Party of Japan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the midst of an identity crisis, the Democratic Party of Japan adopts a new policy platform that fails to include any key points or doctrines differentiating it from its rivals. ]]></description>
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		<title>Abe sending mixed signals to Seoul with official visits</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2013 15:12:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Reiji Yoshida</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe&#8217;s administration plans to dispatch Finance Minister Taro Aso to Monday&#8217;s inauguration ceremony for incoming South Korean President Park Geun Hye, but will also send an official to a controversial ceremony dealing with Takeshima, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said Wednesday. Suga said the dispatch of Aso, who also serves as deputy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Diet does away with contentious nominee rule</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 15:02:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Reiji Yoshida</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The ruling and opposition parities agreed Tuesday to revoke a self-imposed restriction on how nominees for key government positions are endorsed, moving a step closer for the administration to propose a new Bank of Japan governor and vice governors. The Diet affairs chiefs of the ruling and opposition parties agreed to abolish the rule under [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exec picks to be pitched this month</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2013 15:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Reiji Yoshida</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The administration plans to present its nominees for Bank of Japan governor and vice governors to the Diet by month&#8217;s end, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said Monday. The terms of the current two vice governors expires March 19, but the administration will announce its candidates well before the deadline, Suga told a news conference. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Takeshima ceremony to draw 18 lawmakers</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2013 15:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Reiji Yoshida</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[abe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shimane]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Takeshima]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Shimane Prefecture&#8217;s annual ceremony Friday to commemorate Japan&#8217;s 1905 annexation of Takeshima will draw at least 18 Diet members, but so far no one in the Cabinet has signaled plans to participate in the event, the prefecture said Monday. The two Takeshima islets, which South Korea took control of after World War II, lie about [...]]]></description>
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