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		<title>Beyond a shadow of doubt in new Higashino mystery</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2013 15:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Mansfield</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Keigo Higashino]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[SALVATION OF A SAINT, by Keigo Higashino. Little Brown, 2013, 376 pp., £12.99 (hardcover) When the pregnant lover of a murder victim receives the sympathetic ministrations from the deceased&#8217;s wife at the funeral service, you know you are in no ordinary emotional terrain. This novel by Keigo Higashino follows the tried and tested format of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recommended reading</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2013 15:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Mansfield</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Donald Richie]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Donald Richie was a scrupulous writer who paid finite attention to language and content. The following are 10 outstanding choices — titles that should be on any discerning readers&#8217; bookshelf. &#8220;Tokyo: A View of the City&#8221; (1999) Here Richie manages to give the impression of someone who is encountering an utterly new city for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An inclined view: The life and work of Donald Richie</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2013 15:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Mansfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was with a heavy heart that I heard from Donald Richie's longtime friend and editor Leza Lowitz that he had passed away on the morning of Tuesday, this week. He was 88. ]]></description>
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		<title>Japan&#8217;s animal spirits</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2013 15:04:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Mansfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BONES OF CONTENTION: Animals and Religion in Contemporary Japan, by Barbara R. Ambros. University of Hawaii Press, 2012, 255 pp., $29 (paperback) Bumping into a Japanese acquaintance on the street recently, I inquired where he was going on his day off dressed in a formal business suit. A worker at a major pharmaceutical company, he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sapporo&#8217;s wonders of winter</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Mansfield</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It seemed to me on a recent winter&#8217;s visit to Sapporo that everyone was a performer: from the flamboyant gestures and bullhorn announcements of the tour guides, to the showy dismembering of crabs by vendors, to the owners of the cubbyhole restaurants in Ramen Yokocho, the alley of mostly one-man operations to which we repaired [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Landscaping the doors of perception in Japan</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Dec 2012 00:01:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Mansfield</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ZEN GARDENS: The Complete Works of Shunmyo Masuno, Japan&#8217;s Leading Garden Designer, by Mira Locher. Tuttle Publishing, 2012, 224 pp., &#36;39.95 (hardcover) Although the term zen-tei (Zen garden) exists in Japanese, its usage is a largely Western one, first coined by the American garden scholar Lorraine Kuck in the 1930s. In the work of designer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Windmills on the poetic mind</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Nov 2012 00:01:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Mansfield</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[FAREWELL TO NUCLEAR, WELCOME TO RENEWABLE ENERGY: A Collection of Poems by 218 Poets. Coal Sack Publishing, 2012, 321 pp., &#165;3,150 Japan in many ways is the land of myth, of cozy self-assurances, national delusions and unfounded assertions. Incredulous claims, such as racial homogeneity and the absence of a class system, are commonplace. In a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hagi: restful cradle of a revolution</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Oct 2012 00:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Mansfield</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I had just been re-reading Paul Theroux&#8217;s African travelogue, &#8220;Dark Star Safari,&#8221; and was up to a part where he explains that he never books rooms on his journeys, just turns up and leaves the rest to chance. I thought I would test the strategy by not bothering to reserve a bed for my stay [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spirits linger on storied Kudaka Isle</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Oct 2012 00:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Mansfield</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The 25-minute hop from Azama Port to Kudaka Island provides just enough time to glimpse back at Okinawa&#8217;s receding coast before turning to gaze at the shoreline looming &#8212; not that I expected a great deal from an island so easily and frequently linked by ferries to the much-developed mainland. Happily, Kudaka &#8212; Kudaka-jima in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exploring the garden of absolute infinities</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Oct 2012 00:01:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Mansfield</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Tenryu-Ji: Life and Spirit of a Kyoto Garden, by Norris Brock Johnson. Stone Bridge Press, 2012, 368 pp., &#36;39.95 (hardcover) If the Western garden is bulging with organic matter, the Japanese one is animate with deities, allegory, symbolism and mythology, hinting at a greater depth, a place of divine and metaphoric convergence. Like all great [...]]]></description>
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