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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>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>
				<category><![CDATA[2020 Olympics]]></category>
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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>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>
				<category><![CDATA[education]]></category>
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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>Fukushima and the right to responsible government</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/09/16/issues/fukushima-and-the-right-to-responsible-government/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=fukushima-and-the-right-to-responsible-government</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2013 14:45:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin P.A. Jones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[constitution]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fukushima No. 1]]></category>
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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>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>
				<category><![CDATA[Debito Arudou]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[discrimination]]></category>
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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>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/09/09/issues/filmmaker-revisits-the-children-of-fukushimas-grey-zone/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=filmmaker-revisits-the-children-of-fukushimas-grey-zone</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Sep 2013 13:55:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Louise George Kittaka</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[documentaries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fukushima]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fukushima No. 1]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ian Thomas Ash]]></category>
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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>Tin Man&#8217;s throne: the rise and fall of a Roppongi royal</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/09/02/issues/tin-mans-throne-the-rise-and-fall-of-a-roppongi-royal/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=tin-mans-throne-the-rise-and-fall-of-a-roppongi-royal</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Sep 2013 14:50:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dreux Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gilbert Otaigbe is the current owner of Black Horse bar and nightclub in Roppongi. At the height of his success in the mid-2000s, he owned at least seven bars, clubs and restaurants.]]></description>
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		<title>Kaizen and the art of human wa maintenance</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/08/26/issues/kaizen-and-the-art-of-human-wa-maintenance/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=kaizen-and-the-art-of-human-wa-maintenance</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Aug 2013 14:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kaizen here is organic, ubiquitous and attuned to the physical and psychological needs of human beings. At its best, this "human-scale kaizen" eliminates or eases many of the mundane uncertainties, annoyances and embarrassments of daily life.]]></description>
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		<title>The world&#8217;s a stage, but you don&#8217;t have to play along</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/08/19/issues/the-worlds-a-stage-but-you-dont-have-to-play-along/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-worlds-a-stage-but-you-dont-have-to-play-along</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Aug 2013 14:04:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicolas Gattig</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Boston bombing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the night of April 18, three days after the Boston Marathon bombing, a side-drama to that story unfolded between three men as they criss-crossed the city, a performance staged partly in the theater of culture. Just before 11 p.m., Danny, a young Chinese man on a work visa in the U.S., was carjacked at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Union, business concerns put limits on freedom of speech</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Aug 2013 14:01:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hifumi Okunuki</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[constitution]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hot on the heels of their romp to victory in the race for control of the House of Councilors, the Liberal Democratic Party is chomping at the bit to overhaul the Constitution, which has not been amended since it was signed into law in 1946. The ruling party proposes gutting Article 9, which forever bans [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ainu fight for return of plundered ancestral remains</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Aug 2013 14:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Scott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shigeru Kayano, one of the most well-known and respected Ainu figures of modern times, writes in his autobiography &#8220;Our Land Was a Forest&#8221; about the loathing he felt as a young man for the shamo (Japanese) researchers who used to visit his village and family home. &#8220;In those days I despised scholars of Ainu culture [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ol&#8217; blue eyes isn&#8217;t back: Tsurunen&#8217;s tale offers lessons in microcosm for DPJ</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/08/05/issues/ol-blue-eyes-isnt-back-tsurunens-tale-offers-lessons-in-microcosm-for-dpj/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=ol-blue-eyes-isnt-back-tsurunens-tale-offers-lessons-in-microcosm-for-dpj</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Aug 2013 14:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Debito Arudou</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spare a thought for Marutei Tsurunen, Japan's first European-born naturalized immigrant parliamentarian, who was voted out in last month's House of Councilors election.]]></description>
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		<title>SOFA: an unequal treaty that trumps the Constitution?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Aug 2013 14:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin P.A. Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The prime minister's dogged focus on amending the American-tainted Constitution might reflect an uncomfortable unspoken truth &#8212; that it may be easier to change the Constitution than revise another document of potentially greater importance: the Status of Forces Agreement between Japan and the United States, which governs the legal status of the U.S. military presence in Japan.]]></description>
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		<title>Prove you&#8217;re Japanese: when being bicultural can be a burden</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jul 2013 14:45:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Louise George Kittaka</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Japanese are Japanese and foreigners are foreigners, and never the twain shall meet? In many aspects of daily life in this country, there is one way for the Japanese and another for the rest of us. Like it or not, that's just how it is. At least foreigners know where we stand.]]></description>
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		<title>There is more to my son than the fact he&#8217;s a &#8216;half&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jul 2013 14:45:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Surdick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For foreign residents, having a child in Japan can be a daunting prospect. Going to the hospital and trying to figure out what the doctor is saying in complex Japanese medical terms is just one of myriad trials.]]></description>
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		<title>Police stonewalling over death of U.S. teen in Shinjuku prolongs family&#8217;s ordeal</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/07/22/issues/police-stonewalling-over-death-of-u-s-teen-in-shinjuku-prolongs-familys-ordeal/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=police-stonewalling-over-death-of-u-s-teen-in-shinjuku-prolongs-familys-ordeal</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jul 2013 14:15:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Scott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The family of Scott Kang had hoped that the release the autopsy report would shed some light on the U.S. teenager's death in Shinjuku in 2010 and bring them nearer to obtaining closure. Instead, it has reopened old wounds and raised fresh questions about the original police investigation.]]></description>
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		<title>Trolls or media watchdogs?: Japan&#8217;s foreign-born defenders</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jul 2013 14:03:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stuart Braun</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have the foreign media got it in for Japan? Do they unduly focus on, and sensationalize, Fukushima radiation leaks, alleged racial intolerance and the self-aggrandizing policy pronouncements of the reborn Liberal Democratic Party?]]></description>
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		<title>Unwritten perks can trump work rules, contracts, even laws</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jul 2013 14:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hifumi Okunuki</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At a certain company, workers take their lunch break every day from 12 to 1 p.m. But just 10 minutes before noon, a small contingent of workers get up and leave the room. A few minutes later the fragrance of miso soup wafts in from the kitchen. Employees take turns making the soup for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Driven by regret over neighbor&#8217;s death, first-time filmmaker declares war on suicide</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jul 2013 14:50:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Solomon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rene Duignan is passionate about life — so much so that he made an award-winning film about it. Yet Duignan, 42, is not a professional filmmaker; he&#8217;s an Irish economist working for the European Union delegation to Japan. The documentary, titled &#8220;Saving 10,000 — Winning a War on Suicide in Japan,&#8221; is a beautifully choreographed, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Police &#8216;foreign crime wave&#8217; falsehoods fuel racism</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jul 2013 14:05:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Debito Arudou</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[These Community pages have reported many times on how the National Police Agency (NPA) has manufactured the illusion of a &#8220;foreign crime wave,&#8221; depicting non-Japanese (NJ) as a threat to Japan&#8217;s public safety (see &#8220;Upping the fear factor,&#8221; Zeit Gist, Feb. 20, 2007; &#8220;Time to come clean on foreign crime,&#8221; ZG, Oct. 7, 2003; &#8220;Foreigner [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The LDP constitution, article by article: a preview of things to come?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jul 2013 15:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin P. A. Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is pushing for constitutional change. Yet he is playing the political huckster by proposing to first only fiddle with the amendment procedure in Article 96, lowering the threshold for the process to move forward from the approval of two-thirds of both houses of the Diet, as it currently stands, to a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Authors take polar-opposite tacks as they try to decipher Japanese women</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jun 2013 15:12:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gianni Simone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s an all-too-familiar story: On the romantic front, foreign ladies living in Japan have it bad while the guys do unbelievably well. For every woman who complains about Japanese men&#8217;s aloofness and lack of communication skills, there is a man who boasts about all the local chicks he&#8217;s had. But is it really so? Apparently [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Yellow fever&#8217; and the fantasy of the Asian female</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jun 2013 15:01:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicolas Gattig</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a dumb thing you should never do: watch the 007 caper &#8220;You Only Live Twice&#8221; with your feminist American girlfriend — a woman of color to boot. In a series renowned for its sexism, the Japan entry takes the biscuit. My date night was first upset as Bond is massaged in a bathhouse [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tweak the Constitution now, think later?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jun 2013 15:01:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin P.A. Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whether it happens or not depends heavily on the results of the upcoming House of Councilors elections, but Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has clearly announced his intention to make amending the Constitution a campaign issue. Although his Liberal Democratic Party issued a comprehensive amendment proposal on April 28, 2012 (the 60th anniversary of the end [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chatting about Japan with Snowden, the NSA whistle-blower</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:06:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Edward Snowden, the fugitive former CIA employee and NSA contractor who leaked secrets about America&#8217;s spying operations, often hung out online with foreigners in Japan who shared his interests in anime, video games, martial arts, the stock market and the expat lifestyle. Snowden, who learned Japanese as a teenager, was a Japanophile who had longtime [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Democracy, interrupted: How local voices were silenced in Tokyo&#8217;s first referendum</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:06:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Burgess</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Sunday, May 26, something quite remarkable happened in Kodaira city, western Tokyo: Over 50,000 citizens voted in Tokyo&#8217;s very first local referendum (jūmin tōhyō) on the issue of whether a 50-year-old plan to construct a road should be reviewed or not. Unfortunately, the ballot papers will never be opened — 90 days on, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why workers can no longer wear their demands on their sleeves</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:05:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hifumi Okunuki</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear reader, where are you from? To what era do you belong? I was born in 1971 in Japan and grew up here, too, but I&#8217;ve never &#8212; in all my years visiting hotels, restaurants, shops or government offices &#8212; seen workers wearing vests, armbands, badges, ribbons or bandanas with political messages. I&#8217;ve never seen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan&#8217;s Nigerians see symbol of change in masquerade</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2013 15:06:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dreux Richard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anyone wandering the back streets near Omiya Station at 7:20 a.m. on Sunday, June 2, might have passed a particular office building, unremarkable except for two African men standing on a 2nd floor balcony, rope in hand, lowering a car-sized Ugo (eagle) costume down to the parking lot. One of them was Tony Ikeotuonye, chairman [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hague Convention on child abduction may shape Japan&#8217;s family law  — or vice versa</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2013 15:05:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin P. A. Jones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[family law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hague Convention]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[parental child abduction]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Giant Hello Kitty-emblazoned kudos to Japan for finally signing the Hague Convention on International Child Abduction. Now comes the hard part: actually making it work. Mistakenly identified by some press accounts as an accomplishment of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Japan&#8217;s accession is probably more the fruit of prolonged slogging by anonymous public servants. In the [...]]]></description>
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