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		<title>Closing time for an old-style watchmaker winding up his career</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2013 15:10:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As cotton-thick snow falls on St. Catherine Street in the heart of the province of Quebec's largest city, Iwao Tsumura works away in his dingy second-floor shop. ]]></description>
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		<title>Programmed for combat or for pleasure</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While Japan is a technological powerhouse, it is usually a follower and not a pioneer. Some of the best PCs in the world are manufactured by Japanese firms, but the PC itself was invented by Apple and IBM, both U.S. companies. The same holds for robots &#8212; while a third of the world&#8217;s industrial robots [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From Japan&#8217;s heart of darkness</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2009 00:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A hundred years ago, a young scholar named Kunio Yanagita traveled to remote Iwate Prefecture in search of stories that reflected people&#8217;s lives. Yanagita was born at an epochal time when Japan was flinging off its feudal past and embracing modernity. He wanted to capture the vanishing ways in which common folk saw their world. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nothing funnier than a comedian in a kimono</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2008 00:02:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[RAKUGO: Performing Comedy and Cultural Heritage in Contemporary Tokyo, by Lorie Brau. Lexington Books, 2008, 274 pp., &#36;75.00 (cloth) Of all the Japanese arts, rakugo traditional comedy is one of the most impenetrable for foreigners. The premise is simple: kimono-clad practitioners tell old funny stories on stage that culminate in a punch line called the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tackling the &#8216;Zainichi&#8217; experience</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 00:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sitting across from best-selling New York author Min Jin Lee in a Tokyo expat cafe, I can&#8217;t help thinking that the heroine of her debut novel &#8220;Free Food For Millionaires&#8221; is the one sipping ice tea and talking sex. Like Lee, protagonist Casey Han is unusually tall, refined in speech, and deeply interested in hat-making. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The face that launched a thousand robots</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[KYOTO &#8212; Eighty years ago, an exhibition was held in Kyoto to celebrate Emperor Hirohito&#8217;s ascension to the Chrysanthemum Throne. It was a grand affair in the style of a world expo, with lavish pavilions showcasing Japan&#8217;s might as an industrial and colonial power. Over 3 million attendees turned out for this Imperial bash. One [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tips from Japan that really work</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2008 00:01:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[URAWAZA: Secret Everyday Tips and Tricks From Japan, by Lisa Katayama, with illustrations by Joel Holland. Chronicle Books, 2008, &#36;14.95 (paper) Ever want to cure a stuffy nose, but nothing works? Try stuffing scallions up your nostrils. Your bedmate won&#8217;t stop snoring? Tape a tennis ball to her back. Bathroom mirror always fogging up? Rub [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Matsui&#8217;s graceful robots evoke human emotion</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2007 00:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a truism that the Japanese are experts at dressing up unpleasantness in cute garb. The ubiquitous cartoon workmen characters bowing in apology at construction zones are meant to make months of jackhammering slightly more bearable. Ditto for robots and the future. With a low birthrate and low immigration, Japan faces massive social problems as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Asimo steps closer to Honda&#8217;s Astro Boy goal</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2007 00:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Honda&#8217;s humanoid robot Asimo is so amazingly graceful for a machine that it&#8217;s hard to believe there isn&#8217;t a man inside that walking spacesuit. In the 1980s, engineers at the automaker began with a pair of mechanical legs and a dream of creating a robot that could be a &#8220;partner for people&#8221; &#8212; they were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan traces robots&#8217; past, future</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2007 00:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Robots will become the Ford Model T of the 21st century,&#8221; says Japanese scientist Hirohisa Hirukawa. If the car that put America on wheels is any guide, robots will have a revolutionary effect on people&#8217;s everyday lives. They have already transformed manufacturing industries around the world through the speed and reliability of industrial robots. Will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Murakami addiction</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Sep 2007 00:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Murakami Haruki: The Simulacrum in Contemporary Japanese Culture, by Michael R. Seats, 2006, 384 pp., &#36;70 (cloth) Haruki Murakami&#8217;s novels have much in common with potato chips. Both are often addictive and both are often ultimately unsatisfying. Yet one can&#8217;t help but buy another bag of chips at the supermarket and another Murakami novel at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Osamu Tezuka: Fighting for peace with the Mighty Atom</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Aug 2007 00:01:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Astro Boy Essays: Osamu Tezuka, Mighty Atom, and the Manga/Anime Revolution, by Frederik L. Schodt. Stone Bridge Press, 2007, 248 pp., &#36;16.95 (paper) When legendary manga and anime artist Osamu Tezuka visited the 1964 New York World&#8217;s Fair, he met a man he had long idolized, Walt Disney. Tezuka later enjoyed describing the encounter, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bullet train straight to the heart of Japan</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jan 2007 00:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shinkansen: From Bullet Train to Symbol of Modern Japan, by Christopher P. Hood. Oxford: Routledge, 2006, 266 pp., &#36;125 (cloth). The needle-nosed bullet train racing past the base of Mount Fuji is one of the most enduring images of Japan, a postcard mix of high-tech and traditional beauty. This retains an appeal even though the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Timeless complement of form and function</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Oct 2005 00:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[INSPIRED SHAPES: Contemporary Designs for Japan&#8217;s Ancient Crafts, by Ori Koyama, translated by Charles Whipple, photographs by Mizuho Kuwata. Tokyo: Kodansha International, 2005, 112 pp., 3,900 yen (cloth). Life in urban Japan is so suffused with artificial, factory-produced materials that the soul can cry out for the natural. We drift in a sea of plastic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Japan&#8217;s tabloid world, truth trumps pulp fiction</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jun 2005 00:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[TABLOID TOKYO: 101 Tales of Sex, Crime and the Bizarre from Japan&#8217;s Wild Weeklies, by Geoff Botting, Ryann Connell, Michael Hoffman and Mark Schreiber. Tokyo: Kodansha International, 2005, 255 pp., 1,400 yen (paper). Aside from the sight of middle-age Japanese businessmen happily reading comic books, the Tokyo train commute also features the contrast of prim, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mountain hermitage offers challenge to dole</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2003 00:06:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By far the most common sign along this road twisting up the Iya River in Shikoku&#8217;s remote Oboke Gorge, a spectacular chasm that is the deepest in Japan, is &#8220;under construction.&#8221; Cartoon animals smile from the many warnings about roadwork and slope reinforcement as cement trucks thunder by. Down the valley, cranes swivel over a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Elvis wannabe crooners soothe to &#8216;Rabu Me Tenda&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2002 00:05:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dressed in a black tuxedo, a middle-aged former company executive took the stage, cued the six-piece band and launched into Elvis Presley&#8217;s version of the syrupy &#8217;60s ballad &#8220;You Don&#8217;t Have to Say You Love Me.&#8221; Corny? Not to the hundreds of Elvis fans who were at Tokyo&#8217;s Kudan Kaikan hall Jan. 13 to celebrate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Filmmaker records life and death in Manila&#8217;s garbage dumps</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2001 00:11:19 +0000</pubDate>
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