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	<title>The Japan Times &#187; Sayuri Daimon</title>
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		<title>WEF ranks Japan 15th in worker development</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2013 13:31:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sayuri Daimon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Davos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human capital]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World Economic Forum]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Japan ranks 15th among 122 countries in the World Economic Forum&#8217;s first Human Capital Index report on countries&#8217; abilities to develop and deploy healthy, educated and able workers, the forum said Tuesday. The report by the forum, known for its annual meeting of leaders from business, politics, academia and other fields, in Davos, Switzerland, showed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan losing competitive edge due to poor practical training, expert warns</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Sep 2013 12:15:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sayuri Daimon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Darryl Green]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ManPower]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There may be many unemployed young people in Japan, but there are also a lot of companies that can&#8217;t fill their vacancies due to a shortage of talented applicants, Darryl Green, president of major staffing and workforce solution service company ManpowerGroup, said in a recent interview. Warning about Japan&#8217;s labor market, Green told The Japan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Successful Olympic bid thrusts Tokyo into spotlight, fencing star says</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2013 11:26:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sayuri Daimon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2020 Olympics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Olympic bid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yuki Ota]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For Olympic fencer Yuki Ota, Tokyo's successful bid for the 2020 Summer Games and Paralympics was like winning the gold medal he's always wanted.]]></description>
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		<title>Business &#8216;champs&#8217; issue warning on looming &#8216;Abenomics&#8217; hangover</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Sep 2013 12:39:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sayuri Daimon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Abenomics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Davos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shinzo Abe]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Experts and business leaders who gathered Thursday at an international meeting in Dalian urged the government led by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to be on guard against negative factors that could hurt Japan&#8217;s economy. In a session on Japan at the Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2013, also known as the Summer Davos, participants [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New America-Japan Society chief looks to expand</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Jul 2013 11:59:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sayuri Daimon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ichiro Fujisaki]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japan-U.S. relations]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It has a well-recognized name and more than a century of history. Many prominent figures from Japan and the United States have been involved in its efforts to nurture friendly ties between the two nations. But Ichiro Fujisaki, newly appointed president of the America-Japan Society Inc., feels that attracting people from diverse fields as well [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New group of female executives hopes to boost ranks in Japan Inc.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 15:15:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sayuri Daimon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[executives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[women]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Though hard to detect at a distance, there are cracks in the glass ceiling of Japan Inc. Late last month, about 60 female executives of companies and organizations gathered in Tokyo&#8217;s Roppongi Hills to launch the Japan chapter of the global group Women Corporate Directors. The group is unusual because its members are mainly directors [...]]]></description>
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		<title>High schoolers dream of Ivy League</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 15:44:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sayuri Daimon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Harvard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[study abroard]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One March afternoon in Shibuya Ward, a group of high schoolers earnestly listened as students from Harvard University described life on their campus. &#8220;Who is interested in going to school in the U.S.?&#8221; one Harvard student asked. A host of hands shot up in the air. &#8220;Go with the option that opens the most doors [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lack of diversity hurts Japan: Saito</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/01/23/national/lack-of-diversity-hurts-japan-saito/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=lack-of-diversity-hurts-japan-saito</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2013 09:05:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sayuri Daimon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Davos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Davos Special]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World Economic Forum]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[William H. Saito, who moved to Tokyo from California eight years ago, has had some splendid achievements in his 41 years of life so far. The computer prodigy launched his first software company at age 14, engaged in the programming business with Japan&#8217;s major IT giants in the mid-1980s, developed the world&#8217;s first biometric authentication [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time for Japan to let go of the status quo, U.S. leadership expert counsels</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/12/28/national/time-for-japan-to-let-go-of-the-status-quo-u-s-leadership-expert-counsels/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=time-for-japan-to-let-go-of-the-status-quo-u-s-leadership-expert-counsels</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Dec 2012 00:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sayuri Daimon</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Japan isn&#8217;t going to end decades of economic malaise, nor will its corporations meet the challenge of overseas rivals, unless bold changes are made, warns an expert on leadership from Harvard University who was in Japan recently to give a series of lectures. &#8220;You must have people with vision and bigger sense of purpose than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ex-envoy to U.S. heartened by eventful stint</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/12/08/national/ex-envoy-to-u-s-heartened-by-eventful-stint/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=ex-envoy-to-u-s-heartened-by-eventful-stint</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sayuri Daimon</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Ichiro Fujisaki&#8217;s four-year stint as Japan&#8217;s ambassador to the U.S. saw turbulent events &#8212; the Great East Japan Earthquake, shifting political power in Nagata-cho and President Barack Obama&#8217;s re-election &#8212; to name but a few. And now, Fujisaki, whose posting ended in November, finds himself back in Tokyo at a time when the country is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World Economic Forum task force to tackle Japan&#8217;s financial gender gap</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/11/24/national/world-economic-forum-task-force-to-tackle-japans-financial-gender-gap/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=world-economic-forum-task-force-to-tackle-japans-financial-gender-gap</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Nov 2012 00:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sayuri Daimon</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The World Economic Forum has announced the launch of a task force to close Japan&#8217;s economic gender gaps by 10 percent by 2015. The Japan Gender Parity Task Force, comprised of government officials, business and academic leaders and prominent members of society, held its inaugural meeting Thursday in Tokyo. Participants included representatives from Takeda Pharmacetical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Harvard visitors get eye-opener in Tohoku, meet Noda, key officials</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2012 00:04:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sayuri Daimon</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Some Japanese are pessimistic about the country&#8217;s future and its declining presence in the world, but political science students from Harvard University who recently visited the Tohoku region saw strong signs of society regrouping after last March&#8217;s calamities. The group from Harvard Kennedy School comprised 29 graduate students from 12 countries with different professional backgrounds, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tohoku students share tales of disasters on global stage</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/09/22/national/tohoku-students-share-tales-of-disasters-on-global-stage/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=tohoku-students-share-tales-of-disasters-on-global-stage</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 00:01:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sayuri Daimon</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Global leaders who gathered last week in Dalian, China, for the Annual Meeting of the New Champions, Asia&#8217;s premier global business forum, had a rare chance to hear Japanese high school and university students&#8217; firsthand experiences of the March disasters. Seven students from disaster-hit areas in the Tohoku region were invited to the three-day &#8220;Summer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ex-bureaucrats bent on reform</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2010/12/29/national/ex-bureaucrats-bent-on-reform/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=ex-bureaucrats-bent-on-reform</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Dec 2010 00:01:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sayuri Daimon</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A few years before the end of the Edo Period in 1865, prominent samurai Sakamoto Ryoma founded a private navy and the Kameyama Shachu trading company in Nagasaki and led the movement to overthrow the Tokugawa shogunate. Last month, inspired by his effort more than 140 years ago to lead Japan into a new era, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hotels find profit in catering to families</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2010/11/10/national/hotels-find-profit-in-catering-to-families/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=hotels-find-profit-in-catering-to-families</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 00:06:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sayuri Daimon</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[One autumn afternoon in Kobuchizawa, Yamanashi Prefecture, a group of children and their parents were driving to a field to pick fresh vegetables for pizzas they planned to make there. Inside the van, the driver asked them, &#8220;Do you know how soil is made?&#8221; A 6-year-old girl confidently said, &#8220;I know. It&#8217;s a worm&#8217;s poo-poo!&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Diplomat&#8217;s House a Victorian original on Yamate bluff</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2010 00:01:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Satoko Kawasaki  and Sayuri Daimon</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Just a five-minute walk from JR Ishikawacho Station on the Keihin-Tohoku Line, an old Victorian-style building known as the Diplomat&#8217;s House stands on a bluff overlooking Yokohama. The house&#8217;s owner was Sadatsuchi Uchida (1865-1942), a prominent diplomat during the Meiji and Taisho eras. The house was originally built in Nanpeidai in Tokyo&#8217;s Shibuya district in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Royal trappings grace Akasaka Guest House</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 00:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sayuri Daimon  and Satoko Kawasaki</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[People who visited the Grand Prince Hotel Akasaka in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo, may have stepped into the old two-story Guest House, which stands behind the 40-story main hotel. The Guest House now hosts a renowned French restaurant, Le Trianon, the Napoleon Bar and several banquet halls. What is not generally known is that this luxurious [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DPJ, like voters, too flighty: Kabashima</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Sep 2010 00:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sayuri Daimon</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Kumamoto Gov. Ikuo Kabashima feels what is lacking in politics is patience, both by the Democratic Party of Japan and voters. &#8220;I&#8217;ve only served for 2 1/2 years as governor, but during this period we have already had four prime ministers. In such a short period, how can one prime minister achieve anything?&#8221; said Kabashima, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hawaiian spreads its wings via Haneda debut</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Aug 2010 00:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sayuri Daimon</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[With the opening of a fourth runway at Tokyo&#8217;s Haneda airport in late October, the head of Hawaiian Airlines, which will soon start a new Tokyo-Honolulu service, is already looking to further expand the carrier&#8217;s business in Japan. &#8220;Our expansion into Japan is a very important moment for our company. It&#8217;s something that we&#8217;ve been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tokyo &#8216;weekend&#8217; dads see little of kids during week: study</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 00:03:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sayuri Daimon</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Fathers in Tokyo spend less time with their children on weekdays compared with fathers in Seoul, Beijing and Shanghai, but out of the four groups they spend the most time with them on weekends, a recent poll by Benesse Corp. found. Ahead of Fathers&#8217; Day on June 20, Benesse released a survey on fathers in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Likeable, shows promise, but Tarutoko who?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2010 00:03:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sayuri Daimon</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[When he emerged Thursday to run against Naoto Kan for the Democratic Party of Japan presidency and hence the prime ministership, many probably asked who is Shinji Tarutoko? Although Tarutoko, 50, was not well-known and hasn&#8217;t held a Cabinet post or an executive position in the DPJ, he managed to garner 129 votes in Friday&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Holdout singles stalling birthrate</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 00:01:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natsuko Fukue  and Sayuri Daimon</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Japan&#8217;s low birthrate has accelerated the graying population. According to the Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry, the past 29 years have seen a continuous decline in the number of people under age 15. There were just 17 million of them as of April, down 190,000 from a year ago. The nation&#8217;s total fertility rate &#8212; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fukushima has fought for women, foreigners</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:01:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sayuri Daimon</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Mizuho Fukushima, leader of the Social Democratic Party, has long been active in dealing with humanitarian and women&#8217;s issues, ranging from sexual harassment to domestic violence to foreigners&#8217; rights. Born in Miyazaki Prefecture in 1955, she graduated from the University of Tokyo&#8217;s law department, where she met her husband, Yuichi Kaido, who is also an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Traumas of Showa Era have shaped a man&#8217;s life</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sayuri Daimon</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A man&#8217;s life alone cannot represent the Showa Era in its entirety, but Susumu Iida&#8217;s serves to underscore many of its harsh legacies. Iida, 86, lived through the hell of the Pacific War, saw his fellow soldiers starve in New Guinea and spent almost six years in Tokyo&#8217;s Sugamo Prison as a Class B/C war [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lean, mean business machines</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sayuri Daimon</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In the 1990s, few Japanese associated the term &#8220;coaching&#8221; with instructing and directing people toward achieving their goals in business. But the concept has quickly gained ground in the past decade, becoming a tool for human resources development in many companies. Yoshiyuki Suzuki, president of Coach A Co., and a few others who imported the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The all-powerful voice of corporate Japan</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:05:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sayuri Daimon</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Since its founding, the Japan Business Federation (Nippon Keidanren) has been the nation&#8217;s most powerful business lobby and its head is often called &#8220;the prime minister of the business world.&#8221; For most of the postwar period, the organization has represented the voice of big business in Japan and has been a strong supporter of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Opening the door to foreigners</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 00:01:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sayuri Daimon</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Massive layoffs from the current economic crisis are falling heavily on foreign workers, many of whom are opting to leave the country to seek work back home. But for those who stay, there remain the difficulties of adapting to Japanese society, limited educational opportunities for their children and lack of medical support. Yet a rapidly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Long-shot meeting, longtime love</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2009 00:01:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sayuri Daimon</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[After training under a dyer for six months in Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture, art student Satoko Yamagishi decided she needed a break. In October 1998 she went to Montreal, where she met Philippe Lavoie, a Canadian computer chip designer studying Japanese. One day in March 2000, Philippe was invited to a French language class taught by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NPO chief helping out other charities</title>
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		<dc:creator>Sayuri Daimon</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Daigo Sato, the man who founded the NPO that set up Japan&#8217;s first political internship program, Dot-JP, 10 years ago, has embarked on a new mission this year to help the nonprofit organizations themselves. In May, Sato established Charity Platform, the first NPO in the country to act as an intermediary for other NPOs. His [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama offers new Asia tack: Vogel</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sayuri Daimon</dc:creator>
		
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