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		<title>Cultural and legal hurdles block path to child adoptions in Japan</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Sep 2013 14:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Lewis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While more than 7,000 couples applied to adopt or become foster parents every year between 2006 and 2010, only 309 children were adopted in fiscal 2010, according to government figures.]]></description>
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		<title>The build-up to get that housing loan</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Sep 2013 14:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Brasor  and Masako Tsubuku</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several years ago, we went to a bank in Tokyo that was advertising housing loans with easy terms. Though we weren&#8217;t shopping for a loan at the time we wanted to see what was needed in order to apply for one. The bank&#8217;s approval criteria seemed simple enough: If you made at least ¥3 million [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beninese ambassador brings TV star power to diplomacy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Sep 2013 14:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mami Maruko</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Beninese Ambassador Zomahoun Rufin says — half-jokingly — his dream is “to become the next Japanese prime minister.” ]]></description>
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		<title>Tokyo: How do you feel about the capital hosting the 2020 Olympics?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Sep 2013 14:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Buckton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2020 Olympics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kohei Uchimura]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Enthusiasm tinged with ambivalence greets the news that the city has been chosen to host the 2020 Summer Olympics &#8212; at least among this unscientific sample of Tokyoites.]]></description>
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		<title>Foreign iPhone fans, be aware of Softbank&#8217;s two-year visa rule</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/09/30/how-tos/foreign-iphone-fans-be-aware-of-softbanks-two-year-visa-rule/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=foreign-iphone-fans-be-aware-of-softbanks-two-year-visa-rule</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Sep 2013 14:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Louise George Kittaka</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Softbank requires that you have at least two years remaining on your visa if you wish to pay for a new iPhone handset in monthly installments rather than fork out for the whole lot up front.]]></description>
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		<title>Triumph of Tokyo Olympic bid sends wrong signal to Japan&#8217;s resurgent right</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/09/30/issues/triumph-of-tokyo-olympic-bid-sends-wrong-signal-to-japans-resurgent-right/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=triumph-of-tokyo-olympic-bid-sends-wrong-signal-to-japans-resurgent-right</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Sep 2013 14:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Debito Arudou</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[International events undermine Japan's democracy. Shame on the International Olympic Committee for being a party to it.]]></description>
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		<title>International artists flock to &#8216;Kyoto Experiment&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/09/27/events/international-artists-flock-to-kyoto-experiment/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=international-artists-flock-to-kyoto-experiment</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Sep 2013 14:38:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Kyoto International Performing Arts Festival&#8217;s &#8220;Kyoto Experiment&#8221; will run from Saturday until Oct. 27. Artists from Argentina, Brazil, Britain, France, Germany and Japan will gather and present performances and related events, including exhibitions, lectures and symposiums at various sites throughout the city of Kyoto. The price for tickets varies depending on the event. Additional [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dutch banker turned writer finds a home and inspiration in Japan</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/09/27/our-lives/dutch-banker-turned-writer-finds-a-home-and-inspiration-in-japan/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=dutch-banker-turned-writer-finds-a-home-and-inspiration-in-japan</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Sep 2013 13:45:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Mansfield</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hans Brinckmann]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first taxi driver really didn&#8217;t have a clue, going as far as to suggest that the address given him was a fabrication. The second driver, with the aid of a car navigation device, had more luck in finding the Fukuoka apartment of Dutch writer Hans Brinckmann. &#8220;You should have mentioned the name Sadaharu Oh,&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FYI: Agricultural World Heritage status</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/09/27/our-lives/fyi-agricultural-world-heritage-status/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=fyi-agricultural-world-heritage-status</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Sep 2013 13:40:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Chavez</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[After our 3,776-meter-tall friend Fuji-san won the coveted UNESCO World Heritage status this year, many people are wondering what site will win the status next? Only one Japanese site per year can be nominated for the award, and recent reports have said the government is considering a steel works, a dockyard and a coal mine [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When worlds collide</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/09/27/our-lives/when-worlds-collide/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=when-worlds-collide</link>
		<comments>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/09/27/our-lives/when-worlds-collide/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Sep 2013 13:40:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Dillon</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[My Japanese language skills mostly stink. And always have. Yet it&#8217;s an odor to which I&#8217;ve grown accustomed. My excuse is that I came here to work, had little time for study and when I found I could get by, that&#8217;s just what I did. I got by. Now, as excuses go, that&#8217;s fairly lame. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The PTA: a survival guide for foreign parents</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/09/23/issues/the-pta-a-survival-guide-for-foreign-parents/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-pta-a-survival-guide-for-foreign-parents</link>
		<comments>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/09/23/issues/the-pta-a-survival-guide-for-foreign-parents/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Sep 2013 14:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Louise George Kittaka</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PTA &#8212; the mere mention of the three initials is enough to elicit a scowl from many a Japanese mother. So how do foreign women cope in such an environment?]]></description>
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		<title>Matahara: turning the clock back on women&#8217;s rights</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/09/23/issues/matahara-turning-the-clock-back-on-womens-rights/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=matahara-turning-the-clock-back-on-womens-rights</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Sep 2013 14:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hifumi Okunuki</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Both statutory and case law are crystal clear on the illegality of firings due to pregnancy. But the law is one thing; practice is quite another.]]></description>
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		<title>Why are so many Nepalese in Japan taking their own lives?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Sep 2013 14:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Minister of Education Hakubun Shimomura and Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare Norihisa Tamura, I am a clinical psychologist studying in Japan, with a particular interest in suicide prevention. In this regard, since last year I have been monitoring the suicide rate among Nepalese in Japan. The results have been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tokyo: What would you like to be reincarnated as?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Sep 2013 14:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Buckton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is it a bird? Is it a Pacific islander? Tokyoites tackle the big existential question: What do you want to be in your next life]]></description>
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		<title>Let the world help at Fukushima No. 1</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/09/23/voices/let-the-world-help-at-fukushima-no-1/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=let-the-world-help-at-fukushima-no-1</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Sep 2013 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Readers' mails on the Fukushima fiasco and the late, great Mary Sisk Noguchi, Kanji Clinic columnist and friend to Japanese learners around the world.]]></description>
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		<title>Combs, hairpins to be honored in Kyoto festival</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Sep 2013 13:45:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Visitors to Kyoto can attend the unique comb festival in Yasui Konpiragu Shrine on Monday. The festival, which is held to express gratitude to used combs and ornate hairpins, will kick off with a ritual at 1 p.m., followed by a procession of people in historical costumes from 2 p.m. To access the shrine, take [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Expat ambient musician and artist prefers not knowing what he&#8217;s doing</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Sep 2013 13:30:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Kleindl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sitting in his home recording studio in Tokyo, surrounded by dozens of instruments that he has collected over the years, Morgan Fisher is in the center of his universe.]]></description>
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		<title>The ancient pilgrimage routes and the local community</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Sep 2013 13:25:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Chavez</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[As I headed out the door to do some trail running in the national park behind my house, I was surprised to make it only a few hundred meters before I was stopped dead in my tracks. The dead part was a tree that had fallen over the trail over a month ago and had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Before you leave Japan, there&#8217;s an awful lot to do</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/09/16/how-tos/before-you-leave-japan-theres-an-awful-lot-to-do/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=before-you-leave-japan-theres-an-awful-lot-to-do</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2013 14:45:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashley Thompson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Preparing to leave Japan can be an overwhelming and time-consuming process, especially if you try to do it in less than two months, as my husband and I did. But regardless how much (or little) time you have to get ready, we learned a few things from our experience that might make yours easier. This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tokyo: the city that wants clubbers to sleep after midnight</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2013 14:45:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Honorable Members of the National Diet, I urge you to listen to young people&#8217;s voices and revise the Entertainment and Amusement Trade Control Law to allow late-night dancing in Tokyo and other cities throughout Japan. Cosmopolitan Tokyo conjures up images of world-class restaurants, busy streets and the latest trends in fashion. But one thing jars [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fukushima and the right to responsible government</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2013 14:45:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin P.A. Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A responsibility-shirking government is ultimately the people's problem &#8212; and responsibility &#8212; just as much as the nuclear disaster and all the nation's other problems are, argues Colin P.A. Jones.]]></description>
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		<title>Seattle as the city of love?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2013 14:45:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Magdalena Osumi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[If you think that &#8220;Sleepless in Seattle&#8221; was the only love story that the city has ever known, you&#8217;ve got a lot to learn. Seattle has many romantic tales to tell. This story wouldn&#8217;t have had a happy ending if Anna Morawska, 42, from Poland, had not gone to the United States to spend her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Osaka: What on Earth should be done about the deteriorating situation at Fukushima No. 1?</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/09/16/voices/osaka-what-on-earth-should-be-done-about-the-deteriorating-situation-at-fukushima-no-1/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=osaka-what-on-earth-should-be-done-about-the-deteriorating-situation-at-fukushima-no-1</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2013 14:45:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Franklin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Tepco plays "whack-a-mole" with myriad problems at the stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, readers offer their advice to the utility and Abe's government.]]></description>
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		<title>Briton relies on samurai spirit as he sets out on 126-km walk for charity</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/09/13/our-lives/briton-relies-on-samurai-spirit-as-he-sets-out-on-126-km-walk-for-charity/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=briton-relies-on-samurai-spirit-as-he-sets-out-on-126-km-walk-for-charity</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Sep 2013 14:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kris Kosaka</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like many before him, Trevor Skingle became fascinated with samurai ethics while learning a martial art. But for this Briton, the samurai respect for the arts in traditional Japan resonated with his own life choices. That happened when he was a physical education trainer with the British military vying in army judo competitions at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My day at the races</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Sep 2013 13:50:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Dillon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The surface of the coffee in my Starbucks cup begins its gentle dance, the signal to lift my head. No, this is not &#8220;Jurassic Park&#8221; and the vibration is not due to an approaching T-Rex. It&#8217;s Takadanobaba and the train station quivers with the force of commuters ripping up the stairway, some no doubt two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The dysfunctional family of Mother Nature</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Sep 2013 13:50:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Chavez</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;From now on, I will carry my own water bottle,&#8221; I promised Mother Nature. She had just scolded me as I came around the corner by presenting me with an angry beach covered with garbage. And this was not the first time she has told me off. Hundreds of beaches in the Seto Inland Sea [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Rakugo&#8217; show, shamisen workshop in English</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Sep 2013 12:51:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A &#8220;rakugo&#8221; comic storytelling performance and a shamisen workshop, both in English, will be held for free Sept. 23 in Osaka as part of the Kansai Music Conference. The workshop will start at noon and the rakugo at 12:30 p.m. No reservations are required. The venue is the Osaka Museum of History, near Tanimachi 4-chome [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If you&#8217;re jōzu and you know it, hold your ground</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/09/09/issues/if-youre-jzu-and-you-know-it-hold-your-ground/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=if-youre-jzu-and-you-know-it-hold-your-ground</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Sep 2013 14:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Debito Arudou</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Communicating in Japanese is not all that difficult. What's difficult is communicating with Japanese people, writes Debito Arudou.]]></description>
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		<title>Filmmaker revisits the children of Fukushima&#8217;s &#8216;Grey Zone&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Sep 2013 13:55:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Louise George Kittaka</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ian Thomas Ash has won acclaim and awards at film festivals around the world for "A2-B-C," the second of a pair of documentaries about children living in towns a stone's throw from Fukushima No. 1.]]></description>
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		<title>A friend to kanji learners worldwide</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Sep 2013 13:50:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Louise George Kittaka</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mary Sisk Noguchi helped readers unravel the complexities of Chinese characters, adding an element of fun to a process often fraught with frustration for many learners of Japanese.]]></description>
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