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		<title>&#8216;Cheating&#8217; robot poses tech and ethical issues</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Sep 2012 00:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like a child eagerly trying to win some trading cards during a playground huddle, I scrunch up my fingers behind my back before unleashing my hand in time-honored fashion with the Japanese phrase: &#8220;Saisho wa gu, janken &#8230; pon!&#8221; Me: paper. Opponent: scissors. Result: defeat &#8212; again! Never before have I suffered the humiliation of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exoskeletons await in work/care closet</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jun 2012 00:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are friendly smiles on the faces of the engineering students peering past their PCs and half-finished gadget designs in the Tokyo lab as I try to lift 40 kg of rice. Normally I&#8217;d worry about impending humiliation, but today I&#8217;m confident my ego will remain intact. After I squat down and a student loads [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time has stopped for parents of dead and missing children</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Mar 2012 00:04:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On April 22 last year, Akemi Karino did exactly what she had done on the same day each year for more than a decade. She made a cake, sandwiches and some other of her daughter Ai&#8217;s favorite things for her birthday. On this occasion she decorated the cake with 12 candles, but there was a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Catastrophe revisited 12 months on</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Mar 2012 00:03:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Ground Self-Defense Force troops have gone. So too the old blackboard with sheets of paper taped to it. I still remember a few of the names written in long lists there &#8212; the names of those whose muddied bodies could be identified after they were brought on military trucks to the makeshift morgue in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Island fortresses floated for Tohoku</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 00:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Gilhooly</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The idea of building raised stadium-size &#8220;islands&#8221; to accommodate tsunami-ravaged communities might sound like a bad joke, but that&#8217;s exactly what one architect is urging devastated towns in Tohoku to consider. Keiichiro Sako of Sako Architects has formulated a blueprint incorporating groups of such isles that will form entire towns and cities, creating a Utopian [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fukushima farming hard row to hoe</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 00:02:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Takahiro Nagakura set off for distant Okayama two years ago, his plan was to complete his degree at the prefecture&#8217;s agricultural university and then return to Fukushima and work his family&#8217;s peach orchard. His plans, however, went awry last March 11. &#8220;My father wanted me to study in Okayama Prefecture because of its advanced [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Subtle aid for women facing abuse in disaster-hit areas</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Oct 2011 00:02:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At a glance, it appears to be nothing more than a hand massage. In a corner of a shelter for survivors of the March disasters in Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, members of the NPO Miyagi-Jonet are trying to provide some respite for stressed-out female survivors. Only, unbeknownst to the residents, one of those members is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fukushima man opts to be guinea pig</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 00:03:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Gilhooly</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Nobuyoshi Ito is skeptical of the reported effects of radiation from the leaking Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant. So skeptical, in fact, that he decided to put himself on the front line of radiation research. Ito, whose home in the village of Iitate, Fukushima Prefecture, is located a little more than 30 km from the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mask maker keeping Shimane tradition alive</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Aug 2011 00:01:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hanging on the walls of Jake Davies&#8217; home are around 20 artifacts that seem at odds with the idyllic village in Sakurae, Shimane Prefecture where his rustic abode is set. Some depict outlandish beings with horns and frightening fangs. Even those that seem more terrestrial possess some quirky feature &#8212; a wonky, spoutlike mouth, or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Romanian woman thrives as geisha</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2011 00:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Isabella Onou is struggling to keep her hands from shaking. As she peers into the mirror and attempts to dab away a smudge of stray lipstick, she lets out a quiet, almost diffident giggle. &#8220;I worry that customers won&#8217;t warm to me, that they might not approve, maybe even criticize me,&#8221; says the Romanian from [...]]]></description>
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