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		<title>The days may be numbered for English as a universal second language</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Mar 2013 15:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Pulvers</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[How long will English last as a major world language? The answer must be: a very long time. How long will English remain dominant worldwide as a second language in schools and universities? I believe it will be for one more generation &#8212; max. These two answers may appear to present a paradoxical muddling of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Osaka: Japan&#8217;s latterday second city forever breaks the national mold</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2013 15:30:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Pulvers</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nagisa Oshima]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[They're funny, finicky and feisty, not to mention being full of wicked mischief, with their own way of talking, too. Outside of Japan, think of Liverpool, not London; or Munich, not Berlin; or Mumbai, not Delhi. I'm talking about the people of Osaka.]]></description>
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		<title>Whoever could pass a test to list &#8216;values at the heart of being Japanese&#8217;?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2013 15:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Pulvers</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Calling all those readers who in their heart of hearts have always wanted to be British! Well, you&#8217;ve got your chance now, you presumptuous Penny-Laners and putative Pythons. That chance comes courtesy of a test known as &#8220;The Stonehenge Plunge,&#8221; which last year 150,000 wannabes took to become subjects of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abe&#8217;s &#8216;unpredictable past&#8217; runs counter to his people&#8217;s remorse over wars</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2013 15:04:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Pulvers</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[“They were remarks made to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II. But since then we have welcomed in the 21st century."]]></description>
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		<title>Citizens&#8217; lack of resolve leaves nuclear door wide open for next disaster</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2013 15:42:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Pulvers</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Second of two parts Next month we will commemorate the second anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, and the ongoing nuclear calamity that ensued. But the personal tragedies it has brought about will remain on the conscience of the Japanese until those in business and government who are responsible for the nuclear [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Kan-do attitude averted the meltdown of Japan</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2013 09:45:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Pulvers</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Covering the catastrophic series of events that began with the magnitude 9 earthquake and the tsunami it triggered on March 11, 2011,  "Tōden Fukushima Genpatsu Jiko Sōri Toshite Kangaeta Koto" is one of the most revealing and insightful books published in Japan in the past decade.]]></description>
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		<title>Oshima was in a realm of his own</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2013 10:46:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Pulvers</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[David Bowie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nagisa Oshima]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Film director Nagisa Oshima passed away Tuesday. He was 80. While at London&#8217;s Heathrow Airport in February 1996, he suffered a stroke. Rehabilitation in the succeeding years brought him sufficiently back to health to make what would become his last film, &#8220;Gohatto,&#8221; in 1999. He also appeared frequently on television variety shows, unashamedly displaying his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Citizens&#8217; woeful social consciousness ensures a bleak outlook for Japan</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2013 10:44:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Pulvers</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[gender]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gender equality]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is behind the miserable social status of women in Japan? In October last year, the World Economic Forum, a prestigious independent organization based in Geneva, published a report on the gender gap in countries around the world. Japan&#8217;s overall ranking was 101, the worst outcome for this country in seven years of the survey. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beate Sirota Gordon: An American to whom Japan remains indebted</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2013 00:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Pulvers</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Beate Sirota Gordon passed away on Dec. 30. She was 89. In 1946, when Article 24 of the Japanese Constitution was being written &#8212; and finding herself to be &#8220;the only woman in the room,&#8221; as she put it with inveterate modesty in her memoir titled in those words &#8212; she played a key role [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abe returns to &#8216;retrieve&#8217; Japan from its history &#8212; or will he just repeat it?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jan 2013 00:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Pulvers</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Way back in the heady 1960s, Japan was one big Cathedral of Optimism, and I found myself among a people who believed their country was finally on that road laid out before them in the post-feudal Meiji Era (1868-1912) to &#8220;catch up with and overtake&#8221; the West. And indeed, by the end of the decade [...]]]></description>
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