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		<title>Nagoya:  What was your best holiday ever, and why?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jul 2013 14:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[South Korea. I have many Korean friends and I love going to Seoul. It is a wonderful city for shopping, eating and pampering yourself. Some of the food is rather like delicacies you can find in Japan, yet subtly different, such as <em>tok</em>, their version of our <em>mochi</em> (pounded rice cakes) and their chicken stew. I particularly enjoy massage, combined with being cleansed in a Korean dome-type sauna. Usually I stay five days or a week.]]></description>
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		<title>Uganda boxing trainer gives expert advice to aspiring pugilists</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 15:10:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you don&#8217;t get into the ring once or twice, then you&#8217;re a coward, Geoffrey Ima says as he describes people&#8217;s attitudes toward boxing in his hometown in Uganda. Ima has been in the ring hundreds of times and came to love boxing so much, he wanted to earn a living from it &#8212; a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fear and incarceration, from Kampala to Nagoya</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 15:13:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Carr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I was stopped by two men in a government-registered vehicle, blindfolded and dragged off the street. They took me away to a house in a place I did not know. I was forced into a room with blood all over the walls and floor, where two men lay. I couldn&#8217;t tell if they were dead [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blood, beatings and the cage: the bouncer</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 00:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Carr</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Before The Japan Times was invited inside Nagoya&#8217;s iD Cafe to speak to Thomas, the nightclub&#8217;s security manager, we stopped to chat to a uniformed policeman near the club. He told us there were as many as 50 fights in a nearby park on Friday and Saturday nights. This busy area of the city, Sakae, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nagoya: Do you think crusading Mayor Takashi Kawamura is doing a good job?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Naoki Oda Industrial project manager, 41 (Japanese) Kawamura&#8217;s performance has not been much good because he lacks a dynamic plan to power the Nagoya economy. He has not had much of an impact on its fiscal health. He needs to attract foreign companies and create jobs. The plan to reduce the number of assembly members [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nagoya: What&#8217;s the best reason to visit Nagoya?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 00:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[David ClarkeEnglish teacher, 38 (British)Nagoya has everything a big city needs in terms of culture, food and shopping on a manageable scale. Some say the city is too conservative but I have always found people to be friendly and down-to-earth. Also, I like that it isn&#8217;t too international, so I need to use Japanese. Although [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Justice sought after allergy trauma</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Nov 2010 00:02:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One day in May, 7-year-old Kaiya Lucente was cleaning her classroom after lunch when she began coughing, her face puffed up and she found it difficult to breathe. Her eyes turned red, and scarlet blotches started to appear on her face. She had had these frightening symptoms before after accidentally ingesting peanuts and knew that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japanese facility aimed at creating a sun on Earth</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2010 00:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Outside a small town in Gifu Prefecture is a little-known scientific research establishment engaged in a project to &#8220;create a sun on the Earth.&#8221; If successful, this venture will profoundly affect the lives of most people in the world. The National Institute for Fusion Science (NIFS) is a collection of buildings on the tree-covered hillsides [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kiwi won&#8217;t chicken out on farming in Japan</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 May 2010 00:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Carr</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Red eggs,&#8221; says Andrew Hitchings, using the Japanese term for brown eggs, &#8220;are better quality than white.&#8221; Hitchings, a 46-year-old New Zealander who helps run a chicken farm in Gifu Prefecture, says the secret lies in the formula of the farm&#8217;s chicken feed. Exactly how the mixture is blended at the Katsumata Tamago, a family [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Patience a virtue in miso making</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Apr 2010 00:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Carr</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[If miso is part of your daily routine, &#8220;you&#8217;re having a decent life,&#8221; says Tony Flenley, Japan&#8217;s only British miso maker. Flenley, who runs a 105-year-old miso company in Osaka, believes the time taken to prepare and eat the soup shows the right priorities have triumphed over a fast food lifestyle. &#8220;People eat it less [...]]]></description>
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