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		<title>Fukushima radiation threatens to wreak woodland havoc</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2013 15:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For Yuji Hoshino, mushrooms were a way of life. The 50-year-old farmer grew up watching his father raise shiitake mushrooms on their land at the foot of the mountains in Sano, southern Tochigi Prefecture. Later, he became the one to yearly cut about 15,000 logs, each about a meter long and the diameter of a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zen and the cross-cultural art of tree-climbing</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2013 10:45:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the upstairs meeting room of a camping lodge in Komagane, Nagano Prefecture, two women and about 20 men walked slowly and intently in circles one rainy day last November. At the front of the room, a weathered and wiry Englishman intoned the sort of instructions a yoga aficionado would find familiar. &#8220;Focus your attention [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Farmers try to fence out nasty nature</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jul 2012 00:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I once asked a professor of agriculture in the southwestern United States what sort of fence would keep a goat from escaping. &#8220;Well,&#8221; he replied, taking a long and pensive draw on his cigarette. &#8220;If it can keep out air and keep out water, it can keep in a goat.&#8221; Those wise words came to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chernobyl expert takes a look at Tohoku&#8217;s trees</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2012 00:02:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Somewhere between downtown Utsunomiya in Tochigi Prefecture, and the village of Ogisu an hour&#8217;s drive to the northeast, Dr. Tatsuhiro Ohkubo pulls over to buy a box of sakura mochi. Back on the road, he passes one of the bright-pink rice cakes to the back seat for Dr. Sergiy Zibtsev, who is visiting Japan for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Matsumoto in May means &#8216;crafts &#8216;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2012 00:01:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[England gave the world the Windsor chair, but it was the city of Matsumoto in central Nagano Prefecture that reinvented it for Japan. Of course, such a universal masterpiece only needed a few tweaks. A coat of traditional Japanese lacquer here, a lowering of the seat there, a substitution of Japanese cherry birch for elm [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Behold! Christ&#8217;s grave in Shingo, Aomori Prefecture</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Dec 2011 00:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One line of text from Wikipedia was all it took to lure me to the town of Shingo, in south-central Aomori Prefecture. It read: &#8220;The village promotes itself as the home of the Grave of Christ after a local legend.&#8221; As I was in the neighboring Tohoku-region prefecture of Iwate when I came across that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hachinohe&#8217;s markets serve up feasts in the streets</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Oct 2011 00:01:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two hundred and sixty-two years ago, the feudal domain of Hachinohe was besieged by wild boars. The Wild Boar Famine that resulted, writes environmental historian Brett Walker in his recent book &#8220;Toxic Archipelago,&#8221; was the result of &#8220;the perfect ecological storm.&#8221; That came about because farmers in the domain along the southeastern coast of what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three Mile Island&#8217;s lessons for Japan</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Aug 2011 00:01:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the early hours of March 28, 1979, human errors and mechanical failures combined to cause a cooling system to stop working at the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. One of the station&#8217;s two nuclear cores overheated, thrusting the plant into a crisis that would rivet public attention for five excruciating [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Powering Japan&#8217;s future</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jul 2011 00:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last year, Japan produced close to one quadrillion watt-hours of electricity &#8212; that&#8217;s 1 followed by 15 zeros. The vast majority of that &#8212; which translates into one billion megawatt hours (MWh) &#8212; came from coal, natural gas and nuclear power plants operated by 10 utilities that, only a few months ago, seemed unshakably powerful. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Distribution gridlock restricts renewables</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jul 2011 00:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dial the clock forward a decade or so, and Japan will be getting a lot more of its electricity from renewable resources and a lot less from nuclear power and fossil fuels &#8212; that is, if you go by recent government announcements proclaiming 2011 an energy watershed. But Yasuhiro Hayashi, one of Japan&#8217;s top experts [...]]]></description>
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