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	<title>The Japan Times &#187; Tomoko Otake</title>
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		<title>Japanese women strive to empower themselves</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Mar 2013 16:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomoko Otake</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to gender equality, Japan has never failed to disappoint.]]></description>
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		<title>Making life easier for working moms</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Mar 2013 15:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomoko Otake</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Yukari Horie, 30, is managing director of Arrow Arrow, a Tokyo-based NPO that offers consulting to companies with female workers who are in the later stages of their pregnancy or who have just become moms and are wondering how to adjust their work styles to accommodate their life needs. Horie&#8217;s group, set up in 2010, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Battling the postpartum blues</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Mar 2013 15:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomoko Otake</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Maco Yoshioka is the founder of Madre Bonita, a nonprofit group that offers postpartum fitness programs for women using elastic exercise balls. Yoshioka, 40, who studied sports physiology at the University of Tokyo, says she became aware of physical and mental difficulties for new mothers when, in the late 1990s, she herself became a single [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A visit to Usa, the Japanese city that knows how to win</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Mar 2013 15:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomoko Otake</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Futaba no Sato]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Oita Prefecture]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is the time of the year when many people get nervous about winning and losing. Students are cramming hard to pass entrance exams to get into the high schools and colleges of their dreams. ]]></description>
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		<title>Documenting the gender imbalance</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Mar 2013 15:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomoko Otake</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Yu Negoro, 40, is a documentary filmmaker who has delved deep into the issues of gender and sexuality in Japanese society. Her first project was a series of three short films dealing with women suffering from eating disorders, a condition Neguro suffered in her 20s. Attributing her problems partly to conflicts with her mother, Neguro [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sample Okinawan flavors on Yokohama walk</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 15:02:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomoko Otake</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Okinawan food]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In order to escape the current harsh winter weather, some of us might be planning a getaway to somewhere nice and warm, such as Okinawa. But for the rest of us who can&#8217;t actually make the trip to Japan&#8217;s delightful subtropical region and lie on a beach, there&#8217;s &#8220;Little Okinawa&#8221; in Yokohama. The city&#8217;s Tsurumi [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sewing words for thought</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2013 15:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomoko Otake</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[art]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ruri Clarkson]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Some words can evoke powerful images, values and stereotypes that have crept into our subconsciousness to sometimes dictate the way we think or behave. For Ruri Clarkson, this is something that needs to be challenged in Japan, and which she does herself with art.]]></description>
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		<title>Tracing time&#8217;s passing through faces of Tokyo</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2013 15:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomoko Otake</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Petri Artturi Asikainen would regularly accost strangers in Tokyo, on the streets, in parks or bars and on trains. With a high-end Nikon D3 digital SLR in his hands, the lanky and bespectacled Finn would ask — somewhat timidly summoning one of the few Japanese phrases he had memorized: &#8220;Can I take a picture of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Skiers, head toward the lights</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 15:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomoko Otake</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[festival]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nagano]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Skiers and snowboarders who pass through JR Nagano Station should make the effort to take a short side trip to nearby Zenkoji Temple during the week starting Saturday. Wooden buildings that line the street approaching the popular temple will be lit up in five colors for the annual Nagano Tomyo Festival. The 10-year-old festival aims [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hidetoshi Masunaga: making revolution through the Constitution</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2013 15:52:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomoko Otake</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hidetoshi Masunaga]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Suffrage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On Dec. 14, 2012, two days before the Lower House election in which the Democratic Party of Japan headed by Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda was eclipsed as the conservative Liberal Democratic Party swept back to power in a landslide, a one-page advert with a huge banner headline appeared in a vernacular newspaper. In big kanji [...]]]></description>
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