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	<title>The Japan Times &#187; Toshi Maeda</title>
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		<title>Observing the world in Yokohama&#8217;s giant Orbi</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Aug 2013 14:05:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Toshi Maeda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s on show at this new, nature-themed high-tech museum should appeal to your senses &#8212; literally. Take in the smell of the ocean while watching penguins wander in the polar region. Feel the wild presence of the world&#8217;s biggest lizard right next to you as it hunts and devours a water buffalo. And get a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lack of rival leaves Koizumi boss by default</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Aug 2002 00:03:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Toshi Maeda</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi&#8217;s sky-high popularity is a thing of the past. Over the last six months, his public approval ratings have declined sharply, as has his image as a charismatic reformer. But no other figure in the Liberal Democratic Party, which he heads, has emerged to challenge his reign and the only person with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Koizumi plays public relations game like a pro</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Dec 2001 00:04:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Toshi Maeda</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[This was the year of the Koizumi craze. Products such as a Junichiro Koizumi cell phone strap and T-shirts stamped with the prime minister&#8217;s face sold as if he were a teen idol. A collection of photographs of Koizumi hit bookstores nationwide, and in early December he was even chosen as this year&#8217;s winner of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lawmaker says contribution to U.S.-led effort is essential</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2001 00:02:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Toshi Maeda</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Japan&#8217;s reliance on the Middle East for energy supplies and its role as a U.S. ally make a maximum contribution to the U.S.-led campaign against terrorism essential, according to lawmaker Kenshiro Matsunami, who is well-versed in Afghan affairs. Kenshiro Matsunami Matsunami, 54, who has visited Afghanistan frequently over the past 25 years, describes as natural [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The reluctant politician reflects on a life less than ordinary</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Sep 2001 00:01:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Toshi Maeda</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NAGOYA &#8212; Toichiro Kuno is as ordinary a person as can be. The 64-year-old has few ambitions. He is somewhat introverted, maybe even bashful. He gets nervous speaking in front of large audiences. Former Lawmaker Toichiro Kuno relaxes at the cafe where his political career began. But until last year, Kuno spent a melancholy 10 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SDF, economic reforms top Diet session agenda</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2001 00:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Toshi Maeda  and Yosuke Naito</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[With a 72-day extraordinary Diet session convening today, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and his government face two major challenges: seeking consensus on Japan&#8217;s support for expected U.S.-led military operations against terrorists and on steps to help the flagging economy. The first task is to secure Diet approval of a bill to allow the Self-Defense Forces [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Laws thwart Japan&#8217;s resolve to deal with crises</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Sep 2001 00:05:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Toshi Maeda  and Kanako Takahara</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Staff writers The Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in the United States awakened Tokyo to the possibility that similar incidents could take place here, prompting lawmakers to review Japan&#8217;s own emergency contingency preparedness. On Wednesday, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi announced plans to revise the Self-Defense Forces law to allow troops to guard key public facilities. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan must avoid treading Gulf War path</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2001 00:04:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Toshi Maeda  and Kanako Takahara</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Staff writers After last week&#8217;s terrorist attacks in the United States, Japan was again haunted by the dilemma that confronted it 10 years ago. While the U.S. and its allies mull ways to retaliate, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has been pressed to find ways for Japan to contribute to an expected multinational military operation despite [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Suzuki denies all links with Kenyan project</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Sep 2001 00:05:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Toshi Maeda</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The following are excerpts from an interview with Lower House member Muneo Suzuki about a controversial hydropower project in Kenya. The interview was conducted on Aug. 22 in Tokyo. What is your view on this hydroelectric power project? It has caused me a great deal of trouble. Opposition members as well as some media are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dirty waters surround Kenya dam plan</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Sep 2001 00:02:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A group of lawmakers will arrive in Kenya on Sunday for a two-day inspection tour that is likely to end up endorsing a controversial hydroelectric dam project. After official meetings next week with Kenyan leaders who openly support the dam, observers say the team will probably recommend pouring an additional 10.6 billion yen in taxpayers&#8217; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Compromise visit could dilute &#8216;Koizumi effect&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2001 00:01:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Toshi Maeda</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi&#8217;s decision Monday to bring forward his controversial visit to Yasukuni Shrine may have saved face for opponents at home and abroad to a certain degree. But the move may damage his public image as a colorful leader who keeps his word. As a positive, Koizumi&#8217;s decision to avoid making his visit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foes waiting in wings for Koizumi</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jun 2001 00:10:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ace pitcher Junichiro Koizumi does not throw curveballs. Two months into his tricky job on the nation&#8217;s political mound of Nagata-cho &#8212; where even supposed teammates may be plotting against him &#8212; he continues throwing straight fastballs only. That is how Nobuteru Ishihara, state minister in charge of administrative reforms under Koizumi, describes how the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Koizumi&#8217;s reform foes entrenched</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jun 2001 00:11:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi firing off a barrage of reform proposals aimed at turning the ailing economy around, his foes, including fellow Liberal Democratic Party lawmakers and bureaucrats keen to protect vested interests, are drawing battle lines. But observers say Koizumi, backed by record-high public approval ratings, has so far been skillful in handling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Koizumi must deliver before hoopla fades</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2001 00:07:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Toshi Maeda  and Mayumi Negishi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Staff writers Reformist Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi seems to know too well that what counts is his image. And his image-conscious political style may be doing the trick as ordinary citizens, weary after a decade of economic and social doldrums, are starting to see a new &#8212; and entertaining &#8212; political light. Nearly a month [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Heresy of Koizumi key to his Cabinet&#8217;s soaring popularity, Fukuda says</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2001 00:08:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Toshi Maeda</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It is the heretical style of new Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi that has sent his Cabinet&#8217;s approval ratings soaring, according to Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda. Yasuo Fukuda The unprecedented way in which the maverick leader formed his Cabinet &#8212; by ignoring the Liberal Democratic Party&#8217;s traditional factional pecking order &#8212; has struck a chord [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Opinions split on Tanaka promotion</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2001 00:02:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Toshi Maeda</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[While Junichiro Koizumi&#8217;s appointment of Makiko Tanaka as foreign minister took the nation by surprise, some experts warn she could be a mixed blessing for the new prime minister despite her strong popular appeal. The sharp-tongued Tanaka, daughter of late Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka, has stayed out of the party&#8217;s mainstream but has often been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Contorted system spells short-term leaders</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Apr 2001 00:09:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Toshi Maeda  and Kanako Takahara</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Unless one is a political analyst or blessed with an excellent memory, it is close to impossible to correctly rattle off the names of Japan&#8217;s prime ministers since the late 1980s. There have simply been too many in that time. Whoever wins Tuesday&#8217;s election for president of the Liberal Democratic Party will probably serve as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ex-Prime Minister Hashimoto top candidate to replace Mori</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2001 00:11:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Toshi Maeda</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Liberal Democratic Party&#8217;s factional interests appear to have put former Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto into pole position in the race to find a successor to Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori. Hashimoto came under the spotlight after LDP power broker Hiromu Nonaka reportedly said Tuesday night that the LDP&#8217;s largest faction, headed by Hashimoto, should unite [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stock market crisis may prolong Mori&#8217;s tenure</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2001/03/16/national/stock-market-crisis-may-prolong-moris-tenure/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=stock-market-crisis-may-prolong-moris-tenure</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2001 00:04:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Toshi Maeda  and Kanako Takahara</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Speculation is growing that Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori may remain in his post beyond April, partly because of the recent decline in share prices and the confusion over just who would succeed the unpopular leader. LDP policy chief Shizuka Kamei insists the intraparty vote to choose Mori&#8217;s successor as LDP president and prime minister should [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nonaka tipped to lead LDP without rocking party boat</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2001 00:06:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori&#8217;s resignation imminent, observers predict his most likely successor may be ruling party heavyweight Hiromu Nonaka, a man many say is unlikely to pull the nation out of its current political and economic quagmire. Although Nonaka has repeatedly denied he intends to run in the next Liberal Democratic Party presidential election, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Budget passage offers Mori no relief</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Mar 2001 00:02:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Toshi Maeda</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Normally, a prime minister will breathe a sigh of relief when the annual budget package clears the Lower House. But for Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori, the chamber&#8217;s approval of the 82.65 trillion yen fiscal 2001 budget could mark the beginning of the end for his administration. Pressure has been steadily building in recent weeks &#8212; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LDP still kowtows to vested interests at the economy&#8217;s expense</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2001/02/07/national/ldp-still-kowtows-to-vested-interests-at-the-economys-expense/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=ldp-still-kowtows-to-vested-interests-at-the-economys-expense</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Feb 2001 00:05:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pop into a convenience store and you may still find inconvenience: They don&#8217;t sell medicine and you may not find cigarettes or alcohol at some shops. The sales of these products are strictly controlled under the government&#8217;s licensing system, from which local retailers &#8212; one of the traditional support groups of the ruling Liberal Democratic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>July election to be verdict on Mori</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jan 2001 00:03:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori appears to be pinning his survival on a shift from postwar economic materialism to a revival of traditional values, but his true prospects will depend more on his ability to avoid making blunders. Mori hopes to make a drastic review of the nation&#8217;s postwar education system a major theme of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Streamlining hopes face roadblocks: Hashimoto</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Dec 2000 00:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Toshi Maeda</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The ongoing process of realigning central government ministries and agencies remains trapped in a bureaucratic vise, according to former Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto, who is currently state minister in charge of streamlining the nation&#8217;s bureaucracy. For one, it lacks flexibility, he said in an interview Thursday. Having taken the initiative to draw up the comprehensive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hashimoto faction wins big in shakeup</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Dec 2000 00:07:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Toshi Maeda</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Policy continuity, factional power plays and surprise appointments characterized the new Cabinet launched Tuesday by Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori, who hopes his new team will help him and his Liberal Democratic Party survive the months leading to next summer&#8217;s Upper House election. While keeping many of the key ministers from his old team, Mori also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mori weathers storm but warned against further gaffes</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Dec 2000 00:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 72-day extraordinary Diet session comes to a close today with Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori clinging to power despite a series of challenges that could have ousted him from office. Mori hopes to re-establish his influence by reshuffling his Cabinet and the top executives of the Liberal Democratic Party early next week, and LDP power [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kato&#8217;s momentous rebellion leaves Mori in charge &#8212; for the moment</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2000/11/22/national/katos-momentous-rebellion-leaves-mori-in-charge-for-the-moment/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=katos-momentous-rebellion-leaves-mori-in-charge-for-the-moment</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Nov 2000 00:05:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Toshi Maeda  and Kanako Takahara</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The failure of Koichi Kato&#8217;s revolt against Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori leaves the unpopular leader at the nation&#8217;s helm &#8212; at least for the moment. As for Kato, who only days ago was deemed among the most likely successors to Mori, his future could be doomed. An influential Liberal Democratic Party official said Tuesday morning [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LDP may sack Mori to stay intact</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Nov 2000 00:05:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Koichi Kato&#8217;s revolt against Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori has fueled growing sentiment within the Liberal Democratic Party that the unpopular Mori should step down to avert a crisis that could severely split the ruling party. How the LDP turmoil will be resolved remains unclear, but it appears certain that none of the players in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>With shield gone, Mori may be next</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Oct 2000 00:03:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori&#8217;s decision Friday to accept Chief Cabinet Secretary Hidenao Nakagawa&#8217;s resignation was apparently aimed at containing further damage to his administration, which was battered recently over his comments regarding a controversial proposal to North Korea. The opposition forces, buoyant over Nakagawa&#8217;s resignation, are now poised to shift gears in their attack and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foreign residents on slow boat to get vote</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Sep 2000 00:04:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Japanese woman was unhappy. &#8220;An avalanche of foreigners could swarm into Japan and eventually occupy pivotal posts in the Japanese government,&#8221; she recently wrote on a Web site. &#8220;Then, what if war breaks out and those foreigners leak out Japan&#8217;s classified information to their home countries?&#8221; The site is campaigning against a growing political [...]]]></description>
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