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	<title>The Japan Times &#187; Shaun Mckenna</title>
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		<title>Fairley tries to avoid spoilers but it&#8217;s all part of the game</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/07/30/tv/fairley-tries-to-avoid-spoilers-but-its-all-part-of-the-game/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=fairley-tries-to-avoid-spoilers-but-its-all-part-of-the-game</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jul 2013 14:01:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shaun Mckenna</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The standard opening line when speaking to someone about the TV series &#8220;Game of Thrones&#8221; basically amounts to a spoiler alert. It&#8217;s no different when talking to actress Michelle Fairley, who plays Catelyn Stark in the popular HBO cable series. &#8220;I&#8217;ve seen Season 3 and I&#8217;ve read the books,&#8221; I tell her. &#8220;I&#8217;ve read the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In the record bag: Mark Birtles</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:05:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shaun Mckenna</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blue Hawaii]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chvrches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DJ Mujava]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark Birtles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nathan Fake]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sophie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tokyo Indie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Whodini]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Born in Nottingham, England, Mark Birtles began DJing in Leeds before coming to Japan in 2008. He is one half of the Tokyo Indie events team, which has hosted DJ gigs with touring bands such as My Bloody Valentine, Metronomy, Mystery Jets and Yeah Yeah Yeahs. He let us have a look in his record [...]]]></description>
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		<title>June: Taicoclub, Tokyo Camp kick off festival season</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/05/23/music/june/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=june</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 15:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shaun Mckenna</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ai Kuwabara Trio Project]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[concert]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Erimaj]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[festival]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gig]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hostess Club Weekender]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indigo Jam Unit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James Blake]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jim O'Rourke]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kiwa Kiwa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Laura Mvula]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taicoclub]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tokyo Camp]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tonofon]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Students are counting down the days till school lets out, while urban commuters are starting to sweat the impending heat. Summer is coming, and a sure sign of that is that music festivals are starting to kick up around the country. The month starts off with Taicoclub at Kodomo no Mori in Nagano Prefecture on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pianist Onishi to come out of retirement</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/05/02/music/pianist-onishi-to-come-out-of-retirement/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=pianist-onishi-to-come-out-of-retirement</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 15:01:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shaun Mckenna</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Haruki Murakami]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jazz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Junko Onishi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saito Kinen Festival]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saito Kinen Orchestra]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seiji Ozawa]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Pianist Junko Onishi will come out of retirement to perform one more time, at the finale of this year&#8217;s Saito Kinen Festival Matsumoto in Nagano Prefecture. According to a statement released Friday, the 46-year-old musician was convinced to come back to the stage by overtures from festival director Seiji Ozawa and author Haruki Murakami. Onishi [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Early quake relief project &#8216;Nihon Kizuna&#8217; to hold two-year anniversary event</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 15:01:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shaun Mckenna</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[electronic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hip-hop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nihon Kizuna]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Laurent Fintoni was visiting Japan in March 2011 when the Great East Japan Earthquake struck. The 33-year-old writer and DJ quickly contacted friends in the music scene here and abroad to produce &#8220;Nihon Kizuna,&#8221; one of the first albums to aid disaster relief. Two years later, Fintoni is back in Japan and hosting an all-night [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japanese acts play music ambassadors at Canadian Music Week</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/03/28/music/japanese-acts-play-music-ambassadors-at-canadian-music-week/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=japanese-acts-play-music-ambassadors-at-canadian-music-week</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 15:52:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shaun Mckenna</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Canadian Music Week]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jake Stone Garage]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Yuichiro Tokuda's Ralyzzdigg]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After rock group Jake Stone Garage hit the final chord of one of their powerful guitar-heavy songs, the crowd let out a few hoots and applauded politely. For a Western band this may have seemed a bit unreceptive, but luckily Jake Stone Garage are from Hokkaido and to them Canadian fans are as polite as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Bloody Valentine hit the decks in Shibuya</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 15:01:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shaun Mckenna</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Debbie Googe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Shields]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[m b v]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[My Bloody Valentine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tokyo Indie]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My Bloody Valentine bassist Debbie Googe manned the decks for a rare DJ set at a Tokyo Indie event in Tokyo on Friday. The acclaimed alt-rock band was in Japan to play sold-out shows in Osaka and Tokyo in support of its new album &#8220;m b v.&#8221; Googe stopped by Tokyo Indie at Trump Room [...]]]></description>
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		<title>January: Spirit of punk alive as Patti Smith, Death Grips come to Japan</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/01/03/music/january/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=january</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2013 00:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shaun Mckenna</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The new year is starting out with a slew of potentially great gigs throughout the country. The most anticipated of these is probably Patti Smith and her Band&#8217;s seven-city tour, which starts in Sendai on Jan. 22 (Sendai Rensa; 7:30 p.m. start; &#165;7,000 in advance; 022-256-1000). The singer-songwriter&#8217;s shows should be great in and of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2.5D wants to change how you see Japan</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2012/11/29/music/2-5d-wants-to-change-how-you-see-japan/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=2-5d-wants-to-change-how-you-see-japan</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2012 00:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A crowd much smaller than solo-guitarist Miyavi is accustomed to has gathered to hear an intimate set at the 2.5D studio in Shibuya&#8217;s Parco Part 1 building. About a third of the 80 or so people have gathered around the stage so close that they can almost touch the artist. They don&#8217;t try, of course, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Taut Line</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 00:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shaun Mckenna</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Tokyo-based British DJ/producer Matt Lyne, aka A Taut Line, coruns the record label Diskotopia, with Brian Durr, aka BD1982. A Taut Line&#8217;s melodic broken house, garage and techno productions are just as influenced by the Chicago jazz and postrock scenes as by the 1980s Chicago house scene. Meanwhile, Greeen Linez, a joint project Lyne has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sendai to hold jazz festival</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 00:02:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In times of trouble music can soothe the soul. And if anyone&#8217;s souls needed soothing, it would be the people of Sendai. The capital of Miyagi Prefecture is located 130 km east of the epicenter of the March 11 Great East Japan Earthquake, and has been hit by more than 1,500 aftershocks. The situation caused [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meitoku players give famed kabuki piece the Kurosawa treatment</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 00:02:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1985, director Akira Kurosawa released &#8220;Ran,&#8221; a Japanese take on William Shakespear&#8217;s masterpiece &#8220;King Lear.&#8221; Kochi&#8217;s Meitoku International Players are taking a similar approach to Namiki Gohei&#8217;s 1840 kabuki piece &#8220;Kanjicho&#8221; by presenting it in an Italian setting and performed in English. Gohei&#8217;s &#8220;Kanjicho&#8221; is based on &#8220;Ataka,&#8221; a play written in 1465. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yokohama&#8217;s Chinatown community marks lunar new year</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 00:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shaun Mckenna</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Yokohama&#8217;s Chinatown district is ready to get the party hopping. Feb. 3 marks the beginning of the new year according to the Chinese lunar calendar. This year, as the Japanese already know, is the year of the rabbit. Boasting one of the biggest Chinatowns in the world, you can be sure there will be an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CrossFit pushes exercise buffs to their limits</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2010 00:01:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shaun Mckenna</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The grunting gets louder the further I walk down the path. It&#8217;s somewhat synchronized, and suddenly I hear a buzzer and everything is quiet &#8212; for 10 seconds. Four men of various body types &#8212; all soaked in sweat &#8212; have squeezed into a small studio apartment located on one of the side streets of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Various Artists &#8220;Tokyo Suite Selected by Nigo&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the setting for Sofia Coppola&#8217;s 2003 film &#8220;Lost In Translation,&#8221; Tokyo&#8217;s Park Hyatt Hotel was immortalized. The long takes of a jet-lagged Scarlett Johansson staring dreamily out onto a neon-lit metropolis lent themselves well to the shoegazer soundtrack. Nigo takes a different view from the 50th floor of the Park Hyatt. The musician is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do you believe in UFOs and extraterrestrial life?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:01:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shaun Mckenna</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Mamiko Sato Japanese teacher, 31 I think it&#8217;s difficult to believe that humans are the only species curious enough to visit other planets. There has to be other species intelligent and curious enough to have visited Earth. Ben Tutcher Teacher, 34 (English) It&#8217;s possible other, not necessarily sentient, life forms exist in our galaxy. In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Should Japan&#8217;s teachers stand up for the national anthem?</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2008/02/19/voices/should-japans-teachers-stand-up-for-the-national-anthem/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=should-japans-teachers-stand-up-for-the-national-anthem</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 00:02:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shaun Mckenna</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Kinue Watanabe &#8216;Izakaya&#8217; ownerI&#8217;m not sure, but I wouldn&#8217;t stand. Students and teachers shouldn&#8217;t be forced to stand. We shouldn&#8217;t think it&#8217;s wrong that teachers don&#8217;t stand for a song with so much history. Nobutaka Gappa Sales representative, 32It depends on the person. If teachers or students think it is linked to bad things, they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are you concerned about the current financial turmoil?</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2008/01/29/voices/are-you-concerned-about-the-current-financial-turmoil/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=are-you-concerned-about-the-current-financial-turmoil</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shaun Mckenna</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Helen Hedger Speech therapist, 26 (U.K.)If I go back to my home country I think things with money will be very tight, but I may be in a better situation than friends who own their homes and/or have families. Mariko Fukuda Book import company, 24None of my friends are planning on getting married soon, so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In the wake of recent grisly crimes, is Japan still a safe place to live?</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2008/01/15/voices/in-the-wake-of-recent-grisly-crimes-is-japan-still-a-safe-place-to-live/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=in-the-wake-of-recent-grisly-crimes-is-japan-still-a-safe-place-to-live</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2008 00:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shaun Mckenna</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Atsuko Fukuda HomemakerRecently there have been some grim crimes, and I&#8217;m afraid Japan is changing for the worse. This is because the wealth gap is widening, and if you are poor it&#8217;s difficult to change your situation. Imma Romano Teacher, 30 (Italian)I think Japan is very safe. Any night of the week I can go [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What was the biggest foreign news story of 2007?</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2007/12/18/voices/what-was-the-biggest-foreign-news-story-of-2007/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=what-was-the-biggest-foreign-news-story-of-2007</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2007 00:01:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shaun Mckenna</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Reiko Shimizu Office worker, 29 (Canadian)Global warming has been the biggest story this year, which people are just starting to take seriously. It affects everyone no matter where you live and has made me adjust many of my habits. Natsuki Ando HousewifeGlobal warming, because it affects us directly. For example, it snows less &#8212; to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What was the biggest domestic news story of 2007?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2007 00:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shaun Mckenna</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Sayaka Kamata Student, 21The elections were a turning point for the opposition. They showed that if politicians focus on personality, and their opinions are shallow, they won&#8217;t win. Change won&#8217;t come soon, but I think it has started. Melky Nainggolan Ex-teacher, 24 (Australian)The protests in Okinawa. Removing references to the military&#8217;s involvement in the Okinawan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does fingerprinting foreign arrivals help Japan in its &#8220;war on terror&#8221;?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2007 00:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shaun Mckenna</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Masaharu Ito Salesman, 42From the point of view of foreigners&#8217; human rights, I cannot accept this system. However, it&#8217;s a fact that foreign crime is increasing, so for national security I think the system is necessary. Yumi Oguri Student, 22I had to get fingerprinted in the U.S. and I think Japan should have done it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Have you ever been &#8220;gaijin-carded&#8221;?</title>
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		<comments>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2007/11/13/voices/have-you-ever-been-gaijin-carded/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2007 00:01:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shaun Mckenna</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Alun Thomas Teacher, 34 (English)I was asked by a policeman standing outside a &#8220;koban&#8221; to show my gaijin card. However, I feel like being English and white I don&#8217;t have the problems other foreigners must have. Shannon Johnston Teacher, 24 (Australian)I was stopped by a lady cop as I was leaving work. She asked for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are you into social networking sites like Facebook or Mixi?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2007 00:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shaun Mckenna</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Aiko Tanaka Film editor, 28I&#8217;ve been invited to join those kinds of sites but I don&#8217;t use them &#8212; they&#8217;re too much trouble. Sometimes strange people will try to contact you. MySpace is good for hearing bands and DJs, though. Tomohisa Hirano Ring-tone programmer, 28I use Mixi to contact friends in foreign countries. When I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What are the plans of Nova&#8217;s teachers and students?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2007 00:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shaun Mckenna</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Jisu OhStudent (South Korea)Nova&#8217;s closure has made me think that it is better to just make friends so I can exchange culture as well as language with other people. I can&#8217;t pay for another school. Chika MezakiHousewife, 44 I asked staff to pay back my money, but I&#8217;ve grown tired of trying to get it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Which minority groups face the worst discrimination in Japan?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2007 00:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shaun Mckenna</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Stephanie CittarelliTeacher, 22 (Australian)Chinese and Koreans are worst off. I&#8217;ve heard Japanese people say bad things about them in conversation. However, they also say they love Chinese and Korean food. Jesse JohnsonEditor, 28 (American) Black people are discriminated against due to negative stereotypes. Also, some Japanese tell me they are annoyed when they hear Chinese [...]]]></description>
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