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		<title>Noh performances in Kyoto to benefit Tohoku</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 15:20:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Charity noh plays will be performed in Kyoto on March 13 to support people affected by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. The performances will start at 10:30 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. All of the &#165;1,500 admission fee will be donated to organizations helping disaster victims. The venue, Kyoto Kanze Kaikan, is a 10-minute walk [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teacher cultivates more bilingual education opportunities for children</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 15:15:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Louise George Kittaka</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bilingual education]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As international marriages rose in Japan in recent years, the number of bicultural families increased, and many children of such families are being raised to speak the languages of both parents. American Mary Nobuoka, director of the Bilingual Special Interest Group (B-SIG) and parent of a bicultural son, devotes much of her time and energy to helping other families in their journey of language and discovery.]]></description>
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		<title>What ever &#8216;appened to the Tamagotchi?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 15:10:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Chavez</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tamagotchi]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tamagotchi, the electronic pets that were first released by Bandai in Japan in 1996, have returned. But this time in the form of an app in which you can feed, discipline and even play &#8220;rock, paper, scissors&#8221; with your not-really-there pet. The bonus is that you can feed him anything — even recycled plastic probably [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All lost in the lost-and-found</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 15:10:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Dillon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[lost and found]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d lost my keys. Which is unsettling enough. For you do not begin to truly ransack your brain — where in the rising sun could they be? — until you&#8217;ve ransacked your house. And I mean ransack. Drawers emptied, floorboards pried, every pocket of every garment probed and probed again, and then family members frisked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Romania envoy hopes cultural affinity boosts ties</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 15:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mami Maruko</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ambassador]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Radu Serban]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Romanian Ambassador Radu Serban is a veteran diplomat with a mission to promote economic ties with Japan. But the envoy, 61, has another agenda — promoting cultural and educational exchanges, which ties into his personal love of Japanese literature, especially haiku. Serban&#8217;s love of haiku and admiration for Japanese haiku poets, including the Edo Period [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Everything you wanted to know about Western women (but were afraid to ask): No-holds-barred guide targets Japanese men</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 15:01:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaori Shoji</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[mixed relationships]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here's an open secret: Japanese men have a bad international reputation on the romance front. ]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;ve seen haras . . . haras that you&#8217;ve seen: when &#8216;harassment&#8217; goes wild</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 15:01:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>No Author</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[bullying]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[discrimination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[harassment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nihongo]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In response to the article &#8220;Blame it on the hara: harassment vocabulary makes us all victims&#8221; (The Foreign Element, Jan. 28), we invited readers to come up with their own ideas for new types of &#8220;harassment.&#8221; As you can see, one JT writer got a bit carried away. Baby-car-hara: Committed by parents, particularly disheveled mothers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Love With a Western Woman: A Guide for Japanese Men&#8217;: some choice cuts</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 15:01:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some choice cuts from "Love With a Western Woman: A Guide for Japanese Men." ]]></description>
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		<title>Tokyo: What do you make of the idea of having a romantic relationship with a Western woman/Japanese man?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 15:01:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Buckton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[mixed relationships]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Makoto Tsuji Social worker, 35 (Japanese) At first, I thought I preferred Japanese women based on looks, but now I am actually married to an American woman. I was attracted to her as a whole — her personality as well as her looks. Rachel Garner Wine analyst, 39 (English) For me, I would rather not, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Akiko Kuno&#8217;s strength as a woman stretches back through generations</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2013 15:30:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Kleindl</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Akiko Kuno]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sutematsu Oyama]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Akiko Kuno, 72, believes her destiny is tied with a red string to the United States. So she says as she speaks of her and her family&#8217;s life at the Foreign Correspondents&#8217; Club of Japan in Tokyo, where as a child she first tasted Coca-Cola and a hamburger. Kuno&#8217;s red string stretches back through her [...]]]></description>
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