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		<title>Fugu reveals its simple gender switch</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2013 15:10:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>How Japan&#8217;s teens can avoid sleep demons</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2013 00:01:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever woken up but been unable to move; felt a powerful pressure holding you down, gripping you tight? Haruki Murakami has, and he describes it like this: &#8220;I was having a repulsive dream — a dark, slimy dream. &#8230; After I awoke, my breath came in painful gasps for a time. My arms [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World still waits for Japan to stop being apathetic about whaling</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Dec 2012 00:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rowan Hooper</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It was hardly the result the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) hoped for, or expected. In a survey of 1,200 Japanese people across the country, conducted in October 2012 by the Nippon Research Center, more people supported the hunting of whales than opposed it. Of those aged between 15 and 79, 26.8 percent said [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan&#8217;s live organ donors enjoy better health than &#8216;normal&#8217; citizens do</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Nov 2012 00:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rowan Hooper</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[At age 56, Toshinobu Horiuchi was a desperate man. He had suffered kidney failure and needed a transplant. As a doctor, based in Tokyo, he knew better than most that he faced a long wait. In Japan, nearly 13,000 people, according to the Japan Organ Transplant Network (JOTN), were waiting for a kidney transplant last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why stem-cell science thrives in Japan</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Oct 2012 00:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rowan Hooper</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s easy to take for granted the epic scale of what some scientists are attempting these days. When the news broke a couple of weeks ago that Japanese scientists had turned normal cells from a mouse into eggs, and then fertilized them and seen them develop into baby mice, I thought it was pretty cool. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My seminal link with manga god Osamu Tezuka</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Sep 2012 00:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rowan Hooper</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In this month&#8217;s column I am going to claim an audacious link with that great &#8220;god of manga,&#8221; Osamu Tezuka. Though he is most famous for the nuclear-powered, peace-loving robot child he named Tetsuwan Atomu (known to English-speaking fans as Astro Boy) &#8212; a character he claimed he was inspired to create after an attack [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Excuse this proud new father &#8212; it&#8217;s time to indulge in some baby talk</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Aug 2012 00:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rowan Hooper</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll preface this column by admitting that it is fairly common, among journalists on the science and health beats, that after they personally reproduce they experience a burning desire to write about the science of childbirth. Seasoned editors know to expect that postnatal reporters will start pitching stories on the psychology of the newborn child, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How astrology and superstition drove an increase in abortions in Japan</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jul 2012 00:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rowan Hooper</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I like to think of myself as a rational human being most of the time, but I have to suppress a shudder if someone opens an umbrella indoors, and I&#8217;d probably comment if a black cat crossed my path. Most people are like this, and most superstitions are harmless. But some bleed into obsession, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is sci-fi becoming sci-fact in Japan, too?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jun 2012 00:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rowan Hooper</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Where is Japan&#8217;s equivalent of Elon Musk? Where&#8217;s the young entrepreneur with a huge bank balance and dreams to match? Where is that someone raised in these isles on sci-fi manga and space movies who wants to make human travel in space a reality? In 2011, Musk &#8212; the billionaire founder of spacecraft and rocket [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Though spooked by new threats, Japanese accept mass killers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 00:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rowan Hooper</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Before March last year, if you&#8217;d asked a child in Japan about nuclear radiation you would probably have been told about Godzilla, the monster powered by mutations caused by radiation, or Tetsuwan Atomu, aka the nuclear-powered robot Astro Boy. Not any more. As Japan goes nuclear-free (probably temporarily, though many outside the infamous &#8220;nuclear village&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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