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	<title>The Japan Times &#187; Simon Scott</title>
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		<title>Millions of dogs, cats coddled, 200,000 gassed each year in pet-mad Japan</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2013 15:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Animal welfare]]></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>
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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>
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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>
		
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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>
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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>
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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 &#8212; the reason I&#8217;m alive&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 00:01:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Scott</dc:creator>
		
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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>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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