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		<title>Youths should learn from Malala&#8217;s courage</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Sep 2013 14:03:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sadaaki Numata</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What will it take to get more young people in Japan to break out of their shell and go out into the world to experience interacting with people of different cultural backgrounds]]></description>
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		<title>The communication skills for vying in the world</title>
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		<dc:creator>Sadaaki Numata</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[espite the introduction of curriculum changes in English-language teaching at Japanese junior and senior high school levels, little progress has been achieved to date.]]></description>
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		<title>Growing world-beating communication skills</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Mar 2013 15:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sadaaki Numata</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Japanese business people's inability to compete on the world stage because of poor communication skills is spurring debate over how English is taught.]]></description>
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		<title>Links between Pakistan and post-3/11 Japan</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 00:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sadaaki Numata</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[During my tenure there, Pakistan went through the heightening of tension resulting from the Islamist resistance to the U.S.-led military action in Afghanistan after September 11, 2001, and the near-war with India in May 2002. As I witnessed the people of this &#8220;frontline state&#8221; coping with security as a life and death issue, Japan appeared [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Communication challenge</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2011 00:02:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The catastrophe of the earthquake, the tsunami and the crippled nuclear power plant on March 11 posed an unprecedented challenge of crisis communication with the world. Those in charge were faced with the difficult choice between calming the public by presenting an optimistic scenario that could lead to complacency, and preparing for emergencies by painting [...]]]></description>
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