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	<title>The Japan Times &#187; Victoria James</title>
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		<title>How not to climb Mount Fuji</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Aug 2012 00:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Victoria James</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re considering trekking Mount Fuji this year, look sharp &#8212; just four weeks remain of the official open season. But if you&#8217;re making last-minute plans for an ascent of those conical 3,776 meters, think carefully about what you&#8217;re taking on. Unless, that is, you&#8217;ve always pictured yourself summiting on all fours during a white-out, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Author Lesley Downer&#8217;s romance with Japan is no fleeting affair</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jul 2012 00:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Journey to a Lost Japan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[British writer, historian and journalist Lesley Downer has been visiting Japan and writing about it for nearly 35 years — beginning in 1978, when she was part of the first-ever intake of the English Teaching Recruitment Program, which evolved into the famous JET (Japan Exchange and Teaching Program) scheme. Since then, she has presented a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lesley Downer: Love, war and geisha</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jul 2012 00:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Victoria James</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[film]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lesley Downer&#8217;s seven books range widely in genre and subject. Here she reflects on their inspiration and her experiences writing them. &#8220;On the Narrow Road to the Deep North: Journey into a Lost Japan&#8221; (1989): Downer&#8217;s first book, a travelogue, recounts a journey she made in the footsteps of haiku poet Matsuo Basho&#8217;s 17th-century work, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Katmandu beckons all who visit Nepal</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jun 2012 00:01:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Victoria James</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Everest]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everest may be its most famous site, and Lumbini one of its holiest, but Nepal has plenty more to offer. Annapurna is the country&#8217;s other great trekking location, while Chitwan National Park is home to some of the region&#8217;s rarest wildlife, offering the chance to spot the endangered Bengal tiger, as well as leopard and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Languid Lumbini: Just visit and you&#8217;ll understand</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jun 2012 00:01:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Victoria James</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Katmandu highway]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a pilgrimage site, a UNESCO World Heritage site — and a building site. Lumbini in southern Nepal, less than 10 km from the Indian border, should be a name as familiar as Jerusalem, Bethlehem or Mecca, the holy places of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. It&#8217;s where, in 563 B.C., the Buddha-to-be, Prince Siddhartha Gautama, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trekking: 10 things you need to know</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 May 2012 00:02:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before you head for the heights in the Himalayas, you&#8217;d be advised &#8212; in terms of safety and expense &#8212; to give some thought to the following considerations: 1. Don&#8217;t spend lots on expensive gear in your home country &#8212; treat yourself in Katmandu&#8217;s touristy Thamel district. In dozens of shops there you can buy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan&#8217;s Everest timeline</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 May 2012 00:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Japan has had a tumultuous, and at times controversial relationship with Mount Everest. Its history features the first woman summiteer, a heated race to claim the crown of oldest person to the top, a disastrous early expedition &#8212; and one of the mountain&#8217;s most infamous casualties. 1963: The first Japanese group gets a climbing permit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A lifelong dream comes true on Everest</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 May 2012 00:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I always keep a journal when I travel, but something&#8217;s different about the one open in front of me now &#8212; the notebook in which I was writing just a few weeks ago. My normally smooth script has deteriorated into a scrawl, the black biro scoring angrily into the cream-colored pages. &#8220;I am fed up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shakespeare&#8217;s Globe hails a Japanese &#8216;Coriolanus&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 00:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In fewer than 100 days time, athletes and spectators from around the world will be pouring into London to fill the great steel and concrete &#8220;O&#8221; of the Olympic Stadium. But there&#8217;s another major venue that is already welcoming international audiences and stars &#8212; the &#8220;wooden O&#8221; of Shakespeare&#8217;s Globe. The theatre &#8212; which sits, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Platter of the day: Flash Sushi</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[LONDON &#8212; Nyotaimori &#8212; aka &#8220;female body arrangement&#8221; aka &#8220;naked sushi,&#8221; in which the food is eaten from the nude body of a beautiful woman &#8212; is as much legend as fact in Japan (see accompanying article). But that hasn&#8217;t stopped the Western imagination from seizing upon it as supposed shorthand for everything Japanese: an [...]]]></description>
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