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	<title>The Japan Times &#187; General</title>
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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>
				<category><![CDATA[Kanji]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nagoya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nihongo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[teaching]]></category>

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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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		<title>Western men, on Japanese women: book excerpts</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jun 2013 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[ethnicity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[expats]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[• From &#8220;Understanding Japanese Women: Taking the Mystery Out of the Mysterious Women of Japan&#8221; by David J. Radtke: A few years back, while deeply entrenched in running a private English school here in Japan, I had the opportunity to work with a very unique individual from New York City. He was the kind of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ASIJ student helping women rebuild community</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 May 2013 15:01:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mami Maruko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Sophia Slater, 17, felt she couldn&#8217;t just sit back and do nothing when the monster earthquake and tsunami hit northeastern Japan on March 11, 2011. So she tried to find a way a teenager like her could help, apart from giving money or donating supplies for Tohoku. About six months later, Slater decided to start [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tokyo Brits gear up for three-day charity cycle ride to Fukushima</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2013 15:10:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Morichika Nakamoto</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[charity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cyclists]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Ten Brits, 10 Bikes, 300 km, 3 days . . . !&#8221; &#8212; a group of British expats living in Tokyo will saddle up for a charity cycle ride this month to the disaster-stricken city of Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture, in the sort of fundraising drive that is common back home. &#8220;People (in Japan) will say: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>British ambassador laments his two &#8216;lost decades&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 15:14:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mami Maruko</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tim Hitchens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[U.K. ambassador]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Tim Hitchens, the new British ambassador to Japan, has observed with his own eyes the country&#8217;s economic transition since he first visited here as a teenager back in the 1970s. But even as Japan stumbled through economic turbulence — from the oil crisis of the 1970s to the economic bubble of the late 1980s and, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A son of Lyon brings his native conviviality to the heart of Tokyo</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2013 15:02:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Kleindl</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[When Lyon-born French chef Christophe Paucod arrived in Japan in 1998, he came on a one-way ticket with no job prospects and no idea of what he would do.]]></description>
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		<title>New wrinkles for classic games</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 15:01:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Ashcraft</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dragon Quest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nintendo]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Nintendo Wii U, which was released late last year, is outfitted with a near communication field (NCF) reader, and the first game to make use of it is the upcoming, downloadable Wii U title, “Pokemon Scramble U.”]]></description>
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		<title>Plummer regaled us with tales of lost seafarers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Mar 2013 15:09:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen Morikawa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[obituaries]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Katherine Plummer, a longtime Tokyo resident and a leading expert on the history of Edo-era Japanese sea drifters, passed away on March 11 in San Francisco at the age of 91. Born in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, Plummer taught at the Tokyo YWCA and Kyoritsu Women&#8217;s University from 1969 to 1998. She wrote many English textbooks while [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Power of poetry penned by survivors of 3/11 is showcased by ASIJ project</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2013 15:10:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kris Kosaka</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[American School in Japan]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[March 11]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kathy Krauth, a social studies teacher at the American School in Japan, admits she was never a huge fan of tanka, traditional Japanese poetry. &#8220;Tanka never really spoke to me. I dismissed it as early Japanese history with cherry blossoms.&#8221; That all changed when Krauth sat in a classroom at the University of Colorado, Boulder, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan&#8217;s great outdoors becomes Oregonian&#8217;s office-cum-playground</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jun 2012 00:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kris Kosaka</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Gliding through powder across Mount Hakkoda in Aomori Prefecture or scanning the surfers at Shonan Beach in Kanagawa Prefecture, Gardner Robinson&#8217;s life and work merge so completely that on the clock and on the slopes are one and the same. Founder and editor of Outdoor Japan Media, an extensive website, including the print magazine Outdoor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Head monk of Kyoto temple takes Buddhism into the community</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 May 2012 00:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Singer</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Climb the stone walkway, stippled with fallen red camellia blossoms, that leads to Kyoto&#8217;s Honen-in Temple, past a mossy thatched gate and raised platforms of sand combed in tight patterns of waves and chrysanthemums, and you enter a hushed and otherworldly space at the foot of Mount Daimonji. Honen-in&#8217;s most famous resident is novelist Junichiro [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Filmmaker savors being in situation where threat of the unknown looms</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2012/05/12/general/filmmaker-savors-being-in-situation-where-threat-of-the-unknown-looms/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=filmmaker-savors-being-in-situation-where-threat-of-the-unknown-looms</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 00:01:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kris Kosaka</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A surfboard mounted against a sea of sludge, whimsically defiant to the ruinous tide of debris. It&#8217;s the kind of quirky beauty you might expect from Michael Arias, an American filmmaker based in Tokyo. Arias&#8217; creative work, in film through to his recent photographs of Tohoku, all paint with the same creative brush the defiant [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A different story: the most-read Zeit Gist articles on our website</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 00:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The most-viewed Zeit Gist articles on The Japan Times Online since 2007: 1) Japanese must tap their &#8216;inner Israeli&#8217; by Glenn Newman, Jan. 3, 2012 2) Lawmaker takes 9/11 doubts global by John Spiri, June 17, 2008 3) Is it all over for Nova? by Ben Stubbings, Sept. 25, 2007 4) A winter&#8217;s tale: cold [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan a fond spot in solitary Kiwi&#8217;s running quest</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2012 00:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gianni Simone</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In this age of reality TV, cheap exhibitionism and superhuman feats, is there still space for the common man? Justyn &#8220;Jup&#8221; Brown&#8217;s reply is a resounding yes. When talking about himself, the 39-year-old New Zealander says, &#8220;I&#8217;m just a plumber,&#8221; even though his eclectic talent as an interpreter and ski/snowboard designer has taken him places. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blood, beatings and the cage: the bouncer</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 00:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Carr</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Before The Japan Times was invited inside Nagoya&#8217;s iD Cafe to speak to Thomas, the nightclub&#8217;s security manager, we stopped to chat to a uniformed policeman near the club. He told us there were as many as 50 fights in a nearby park on Friday and Saturday nights. This busy area of the city, Sakae, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mashiko-based U.S. potter vows he&#8217;ll not be defeated by 3/11 destruction</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2012 00:02:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kris Kosaka</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Harvey Young, a ceramic artist for over 40 years who has spent nearly three decades in Mashiko, Tochigi Prefecture, knows a thing or two about shaping beauty out of chaos &#8212; and about the sudden misfires life can bring. Even his early love for pottery warped and melded with other interests until it finally shaped [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Incredible images capture surreal disaster zone</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Apr 2012 00:02:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Bayer</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Twisted wreckage thrown against the pastoral countryside, surreal scenes of the elements of everyday horribly juxtaposed, a world exploded yet eerily calm in its chaos. The photos are at once deeply disturbing and uncomfortably captivating. Rich colors, uncanny detail and stunning skies brought out by high dynamic range imaging techniques draw the eye in ever [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Canadian black-belt takes pride in action not words</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2012 00:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For Robert Hughes, the shortest answer is doing. From his early determination to procure a traditional Japanese sword to his more recent work with Japanese students in the poverty-stricken streets of the Philippines, Hughes, 54, has spent over 30 years in Japan allowing his actions to speak eloquently for him. Hughes had only been in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fighting the good fight for a healthy natural diet</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Apr 2012 00:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mamiko Matsuda, the best-selling author, translator and nutritional expert who divides her time between Japan and Houston, overcame an early struggle with poor health and disease to become an advocate for healthy diets and &#8220;natural hygiene.&#8221; Matsuda, 63, also had to overcome a youthful fascination with what she calls the standard American Diet. As a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Singer finds fusion in Japan&#8217;s cultural dichotomy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2012 00:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>False eyelashes, an authentic Eid, but we&#8217;re not in Karachi anymore</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 00:02:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Emmert shares beauty, power of noh dramas with a wider audience</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Mar 2012 00:01:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Richard Emmert has endeavored for decades to share the beauty and power of noh with English-speaking audiences and performers through &#8220;English noh.&#8221; Emmert, a Tokyo resident of nearly 40 years and artistic director of an international English noh theater company, wants its members to perform with the same energy and feeling found in the classical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Author sees parallels between prewar, nuclear indoctrination</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The March 10, 1945, Great Tokyo Air Raid was the most destructive air attack in history. Nearly 100,000 people lost their lives after approximately 300 B29 bombers attacked Tokyo&#8217;s present-day Sumida, Koto and Taito wards. Some 1,700 tons of napalm and incendiary bombs created a firestorm that raged at speeds of up to 112 kph [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Expat writer explores the fantastical</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Mar 2012 00:02:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first short story Thersa Matsuura ever wrote in Japan, &#8220;Sand Walls, Paper Doors,&#8221; introduces the fantastical nonhuman characters of Japanese folklore, from the pillow-swapping trickster to the ghostly children who frolic through human dreams. Inspiration for the story materialized from the traditional ramshackle wood and paper dwelling that was Matsuura&#8217;s first home in Yaizu, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cambodia experience facilitated aid effort in the Tohoku region</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cathy Hirano says it was &#8220;so painful to feel powerless in the face of such a huge disaster,&#8221; recalling the day a year ago that the Pacific coast of Tohoku was hit by the huge earthquake and tsunami. The feeling of helplessness is something that will likely linger among many others throughout the country, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Berlitz court ruling unequivocal on basic right to strike</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 00:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After hearing more than three years of testimony, the judge took only a minute to read the court&#8217;s verdict rejecting Berlitz Japan&#8217;s &#165;110 million lawsuit against striking teachers and their union and reaffirming organized labor&#8217;s right to take industrial action. According to the Feb. 27 Tokyo District Court ruling, &#8220;There is no reason to deny [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Alternative labor&#8217; helps Ishinomaki rebuild</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Mar 2012 00:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Bayer</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Jamie El-Banna, 27, is a self-professed &#8220;cynical Londoner&#8221; who says he&#8217;s &#8220;not a nice guy&#8221; and admits he is known to many as something of a party animal interested mostly in getting drunk. But a look at his recent track record reveals he&#8217;s now spent over nine months volunteering in tsunami-ravaged Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture (quite [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teacher outfoxes board, exposes bid to fleece JETs</title>
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		<title>Multilingual ex-professor pours all his energy into translation, writing</title>
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		<dc:creator>Kris Kosaka</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Curled up in his German grandfather&#8217;s library, the young Charles De Wolf looked up from the pages of Goethe to dream of the cobblestoned streets of Europe. At the age of 15, he left his home in California to live a few years with relatives in Germany. &#8220;I never finished American high school &#8212; I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tireless volunteer Fukuda makes a difference in the lives she touches</title>
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		<dc:creator>Kris Kosaka</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Julie Fukuda, 75, is a giver &#8212; not financially, but physically &#8212; who has tirelessly volunteered for various organizations in her community for nearly 50 years in Japan. She also shares her talents. Although she also holds a teacher&#8217;s certification in ikebana, Fukuda now devotes her creativity to quilting, traveling around Japan to give lectures [...]]]></description>
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