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	<title>The Japan Times &#187; Simon Scott</title>
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		<title>Ainu fight for return of plundered ancestral remains</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Aug 2013 14:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Scott</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ainu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[archaeology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[discrimination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ethnicity]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hokkaido University]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shigeru Kayano, one of the most well-known and respected Ainu figures of modern times, writes in his autobiography &#8220;Our Land Was a Forest&#8221; about the loathing he felt as a young man for the shamo (Japanese) researchers who used to visit his village and family home. &#8220;In those days I despised scholars of Ainu culture [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Police stonewalling over death of U.S. teen in Shinjuku prolongs family&#8217;s ordeal</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jul 2013 14:15:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Scott</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Kabuki-cho]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scott Kang]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The family of Scott Kang had hoped that the release the autopsy report would shed some light on the U.S. teenager's death in Shinjuku in 2010 and bring them nearer to obtaining closure. Instead, it has reopened old wounds and raised fresh questions about the original police investigation.]]></description>
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		<title>As Japan reeled from disaster, three men went cycling</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 May 2013 15:04:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Scott</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[3/11]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cycling]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1977, British author and long-term Tokyo resident Alan Booth made a journey on foot from the northernmost point in Japan, Cape Soya, to Kyushu&#8217;s southernmost tip, Cape Sata. Booth&#8217;s account of that epic trek, &#8220;The Roads to Sata,&#8221; became one of the classic Japan travel books of the modern age, with its vivid but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Student seeking Kyoto flat told: No foreigners allowed</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 15:13:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Scott</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[constitution]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[After spending 2½ years living the quiet life in Shiga Prefecture, Ryukoku University student Victor Rosenhoj was looking forward to moving to Kyoto, where things promised to be more lively and international. ]]></description>
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		<title>A tale of two knives, a Kiwi legend, a gang and a girl</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 15:05:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Scott</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[All Blacks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hamamatsu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jerry Collins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Zealand]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nikkei community]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The story reads like a New Zealand news editor’s wish list: Celebrity, dangerous weapons, bizarre behavior, death threats, Brazilian street gangs and a mysterious love interest. ]]></description>
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		<title>Millions of dogs, cats coddled, 200,000 gassed each year in pet-mad Japan</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/02/19/issues/millions-of-dogs-cats-coddled-200000-gassed-each-year-in-pet-mad-japan/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=millions-of-dogs-cats-coddled-200000-gassed-each-year-in-pet-mad-japan</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2013 15:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Scott</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Animal welfare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[animals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[charity]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Cast in bronze, Hachiko sits in a position of prominence befitting a storied daimyo or prime minister, right next to the busiest intersection in Japan, if not the world.]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. judge dismisses rapist&#8217;s bid to halt case over Yokosuka assault</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2012/09/18/issues/u-s-judge-dismisses-rapists-bid-to-halt-case-over-yokosuka-assault/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=u-s-judge-dismisses-rapists-bid-to-halt-case-over-yokosuka-assault</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2012 00:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Scott</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Australian Catherine Fisher is one step closer to seeing justice done after a Milwaukee Circuit Court judge decided earlier this month to hear the case against former U.S. serviceman Bloke T. Deans, who raped her in Japan in 2002. Fisher, who lives in Tokyo, traveled to the United States to attend a preliminary hearing in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yokosuka rape victim takes fight for justice to U.S. courts</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2012/08/14/issues/yokosuka-rape-victim-takes-fight-for-justice-to-u-s-courts/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=yokosuka-rape-victim-takes-fight-for-justice-to-u-s-courts</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2012 00:01:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Scott</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Australian Catherine Jane Fisher, who was raped by a U.S. Navy sailor in Yokosuka in 2002, has now taken her case for compensation all the way to the U.S. courts. A civil judgment by a Tokyo court in 2004 ordered Bloke T. Deans to pay &#165;3 million in damages to Fisher as compensation for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blackston taught kids days before murder, may have toured with AI</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jun 2012 00:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Scott</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[James Blackston]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nicola Furlong]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Although no official statement has been made by the artist or her representatives, evidence points to links between high-profile Japanese pop star AI (Ai Carina Uemura) and at least one, if not both, of the suspects being questioned over the rape and murder of Nicola Furlong. It is believed that 23-year-old American James Blackston, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Photos reunite left-behind parents with lost children, but only on film</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2012/05/29/issues/photos-reunite-left-behind-parents-with-lost-children-but-only-on-film/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=photos-reunite-left-behind-parents-with-lost-children-but-only-on-film</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 00:01:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Scott</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[If there is no bond deeper or love stronger than that between a parent and a child, then equally, there is no pain greater than when that bond is broken or that love taken away. For father Akio Yokota, the pain of being separated from his only son was too great to bear, and on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Zealander loses legal fight over crippling med addiction</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 00:03:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Scott</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[When Wayne Douglas arrived home in New Zealand from Japan in early 2001, his own mother didn&#8217;t recognize him at the airport. &#8220;She said that I looked like a half-dead zombie,&#8221; Douglas recalls. &#8220;My mother had to drive me to the doctors&#8217; rooms, which were only about 100 meters down the road, (because) I was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>American claims Tokyo cop assaulted son, 8</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:03:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Scott</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Elementary school student Jian Macdonald had always thought policemen were cool &#8212; especially ones that rode fast motorcycles. In September last year, Jian was riding through Ueno on the back on his father&#8217;s motorbike when they spotted a traffic cop at the side of the road. They pulled over and chatted with the officer, who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gaba &#8216;contractor&#8217; status under fire from staff, courts</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2011/12/20/general/gaba-contractor-status-under-fire-from-staff-courts/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=gaba-contractor-status-under-fire-from-staff-courts</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 00:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Scott</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[As an 8-year-old in Indiana, William first became curious about Japan when he made friends with a Japanese guy called Hideki who introduced him to Super Mario and the magical world of Japanese video games. As he grew older, his interest in Japan broadened and he took papers in Japanese language, history and politics at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;My children are my everything — the reason I&#8217;m alive&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2011/11/08/issues/my-children-are-my-everything-the-reason-im-alive/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=my-children-are-my-everything-the-reason-im-alive</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 00:01:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Scott</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Custody rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hague convention on child abduction]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On Bruce Gherbetti&#8217;s right forearm, the names of his three lost children are permanently inscribed in a swirling script of dark blue tattoo ink. &#8220;They go with me everywhere I go,&#8221; he says, smiling. &#8220;It is a physical representation of the fact that my children and I will never be separated. They are my everything [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Myanmar&#8217;s new guardian?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 00:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Naing Ko Ko  and Simon Scott</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Myanmar&#8217;s one-time military generals, who have miraculously transformed themselves into benign politicians, really do seem to be taking remarkable steps to restructure both the domestic and foreign policy of that fragile nation. U Thein Sein&#8217;s new administration recently released approximately 208 out of the country&#8217;s 2,000 political prisoners; unblocked the information super highway and has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kang family takes fight for justice to Tokyo</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 00:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Scott</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Sung Won, the father of Hoon &#8220;Scott&#8221; Kang, the Korean-American tourist who died in mysterious circumstances in Shinjuku last year, arrived in Tokyo this week to continue his fight to seek justice for his son. Family spokesman Ray Wozniak, who accompanied Mr. Kang to Tokyo, says the purpose of their visit is first and foremost [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rethinking Japan&#8217;s Myanmar policy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 00:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Naing Ko Ko  and Simon Scott</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[An historic meeting June 29 between parliamentary Vice Foreign Minister Makiko Kikuta and Daw Aung San Suu Kyi in Yangon highlights Japan&#8217;s increasing willingness to look beyond its self-interest and promote democracy in the region. Kikuta is the first high-level Japanese envoy to meet with Suu Kyi since 2002, and although the meeting only lasted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Family slams stalled probe into Kabuki-cho death</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 00:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Scott</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Nine months after their only son, Hoon &#8220;Scott&#8221; Kang, a Korean-American tourist, died from severe head injuries sustained in the stairwell of a building in Kabuki-cho, his family and friends are still no closer to understanding how he died. Although the Shinjuku police have officially opened an investigation into Scott&#8217;s death, the family has been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Police detain Japanese journalist</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Nov 2010 00:02:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Scott</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A Japanese journalist was arrested in Myanmar at 9 a.m. Sunday while reporting on the election in the border town of Myawaddy. Forty-nine-year-old Toru Matsumoto, who works for the Tokyo-based APF news agency, was believed to have been taking photographs at the time of his arrest and remains in detention, sources said. He was carrying [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Decade-long wait takes toll on asylum seeker</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Scott</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Most foreigners in Japan know the horror of waiting for a residency permit or visa. A few hours in the queue at the Shinagawa immigration office can feel like a lifetime. But for Iranian national Jamal Saberi, &#8220;waiting a lifetime&#8221; has become more than just a figure of speech. For nearly 10 years he has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dying to work: Japan Inc.&#8217;s foreign trainees</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2010/08/03/issues/dying-to-work-japan-inc-s-foreign-trainees/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=dying-to-work-japan-inc-s-foreign-trainees</link>
		<comments>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2010/08/03/issues/dying-to-work-japan-inc-s-foreign-trainees/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Scott</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The Industrial Trainees and Technical Interns program often fuels demand for exploitative cheap labor under conditions that constitute violations of the right to physical and mental health, physical integrity, freedom of expression and movement of foreign trainees and interns, and that in some cases may well amount to slavery. This program should be discontinued and [...]]]></description>
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