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	<title>The Japan Times &#187; Shaun Mckenna</title>
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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>
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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</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2013 00:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
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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>
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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>
		<dc:creator>Shaun Mckenna</dc:creator>
		
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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>
		<dc:creator>Shaun Mckenna</dc:creator>
		
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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 00:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shaun Mckenna</dc:creator>
		
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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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