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	<title>The Japan Times &#187; Sayuri Daimon</title>
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		<title>Lack of diversity hurts Japan: Saito</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2013 09:05:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sayuri Daimon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Davos]]></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>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Dec 2012 00:00:04 +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>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Dec 2012 00:00:41 +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 Nagatacho 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>
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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>
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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>Hawaiian spreads its wings via Haneda debut</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Aug 2010 00:00:02 +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>
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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>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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