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	<title>The Japan Times &#187; Profiles</title>
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		<title>Photography buff thrives in the capital of cameras</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 15:06:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kris Kosaka</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[analog photography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bellamy Hunt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cameras]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Digital photography]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Bellamy Hunt&#8217;s name is part of his business: Japan Camera Hunter, a one-man enterprise supporting film photo buffs around Asia and the world. His work mainly involves hunting down vintage cameras, whether an elusive early model Nikon or a classic Leica. Although Hunt appreciates the pun in his company&#8217;s name (&#8220;My Japanese clients love seeing [...]]]></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>
		<category><![CDATA[Language acquisition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yoyogi Chapters]]></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>British photographer documents lives outside the lines</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 13:15:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kris Kosaka</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adrian Storey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[photographer]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Uchujin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Uchujin, aka Adrian Storey, a British photographer and filmmaker based in Tokyo, drolly explains his rather unusual business moniker: "I'd rather be an alien than an outsider." ]]></description>
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		<title>Founder of TIS makes creativity cornerstone of school&#8217;s curriculum</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2013 14:26:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kris Kosaka</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patrick Newell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tokyo International School]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Patrick Newell, 47, founder of Tokyo International School, calls himself a “learning activist,” a zealot on the frontlines of learning. ]]></description>
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		<title>New Yorker opens doors for foreigners in Sapporo</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2013 10:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kris Kosaka</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hokkaido Insider]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ken Hartmann]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ken Hartmann, 71, still opens doors for ladies, and still speaks with a brusque, no-nonsense New York accent even after 27 years in Japan.]]></description>
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		<title>Canadian has English-language rakugo dream</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/01/14/our-lives/canadian-has-english-language-rakugo-dream/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=canadian-has-english-language-rakugo-dream</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2013 12:12:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mami Maruko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Katsura Sunshine wants to spread the world of rakugo (traditional comic storytelling) to people all over the world, including his home country Canada, by delivering English-translated versions. The 42-year-old Slovenian-Canadian, who was given the stage name from his master, Katsura Bunshi, after three years of apprenticeship, has already performed in Canada twice since last year. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Textile scholar advocates sustainable fashion</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2012/12/29/our-lives/textile-scholar-advocates-sustainable-fashion/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=textile-scholar-advocates-sustainable-fashion</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Dec 2012 00:02:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kris Kosaka</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Yoshiko Wada, textile artist and scholar, believes the word &#8220;sustainable&#8221; in foods and fashion shares the same philosophical taste. &#8220;Both are a holistic approach, about health, environment, and the community that supports it. We must recapture and rethink how we are going to sustain our Earth and society, our community and our cultural heritage,&#8221; she [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finns eagerly embracing things Japanese: envoy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Dec 2012 00:01:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mami Maruko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Santa Claus, Moomin, contemporary design and saunas may be the things that come to mind when Japanese think of Finland. What may be less widely known is that the two countries have been strengthening cultural and educational ties in recent years. More and more Finns are traveling to and studying in Japan, and vice versa. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dutchman keeps paper-making traditions alive at his Shikoku studio</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2012/12/22/our-lives/dutchman-keeps-paper-making-traditions-alive-at-his-shikoku-studio/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=dutchman-keeps-paper-making-traditions-alive-at-his-shikoku-studio</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Dec 2012 00:01:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mami Maruko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Rogier Uitenboogaart, who has been charmed by the world of washi (traditional Japanese paper) for the past three decades — especially its deep relationship with nature and people&#8217;s everyday lives — is trying to help preserve both nature and the traditional craft in this country. &#8220;I&#8217;m enchanted by the abundance of nature in this country [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Writer, teacher, advocate finds her stride in the Japanese countryside</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2012/12/15/our-lives/writer-teacher-advocate-finds-her-stride-in-the-japanese-countryside/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=writer-teacher-advocate-finds-her-stride-in-the-japanese-countryside</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Dec 2012 00:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kris Kosaka</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[For Jane Joritz-Nakagawa, her sociopolitical outlook colors all aspects of her life, as a writer, educator or activist. &#8220;Activism runs through what I read and what I write and what I&#8217;m teaching; It&#8217;s all one big thing, as the same mindset invades all those activities. It is inescapable,&#8221; she says. A strict vegan and advocate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In era of skyscrapers, group lobbies to keep Tokyo&#8217;s traditional buildings</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2012/12/08/our-lives/in-era-of-skyscrapers-group-lobbies-to-keep-tokyos-traditional-buildings-2/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=in-era-of-skyscrapers-group-lobbies-to-keep-tokyos-traditional-buildings-2</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Dec 2012 00:01:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Kleindl</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[architecture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shitamachi]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sitting at a wooden table in the glass-enclosed sun room of the miraculously preserved 95-year-old Yasuda House, Sumiko Enbutsu, a very youthful 78, radiates enthusiasm. The house, a superb example of Taisho Era architecture and construction techniques, is now owned by the Japan National Trust. But for over 70 years it was the residence of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In era of skyscrapers, group lobbies to keep Tokyo&#8217;s traditional buildings</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Dec 2012 00:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Kleindl</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Sitting at a wooden table in the glass-enclosed sun room of the miraculously preserved 95-year-old Yasuda House, Sumiko Enbutsu, a very youthful 78, radiates enthusiasm. The house, a superb example of Taisho Era architecture and construction techniques, is now owned by the Japan National Trust. But for over 70 years it was the residence of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Envoy puts focus on people-to-people ties</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2012/12/04/our-lives/envoy-puts-focus-on-people-to-people-ties/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=envoy-puts-focus-on-people-to-people-ties</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2012 00:01:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mami Maruko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[To serve as the United States ambassador to Japan is obviously not an easy task &#8212; not by any stretch of the imagination. That&#8217;s the position John Roos was assigned in August 2009 even though he didn&#8217;t have previous diplomatic experience or hold a political office. &#8220;I was very surprised when I got the call [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Martial artist credits his achievements to the philosophy of kendo</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Dec 2012 00:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kris Kosaka</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Alex Bennett was 18 years old when he first read the wisdom — &#8220;From one thing, know 10,000&#8243; — in Miyamoto Musashi&#8217;s &#8220;The Book of Five Rings.&#8221; Now living this maxim, Bennett is a scholar, teacher, translator, writer, coach and active competitor in the martial arts. He holds two Ph.Ds in studies related to budo, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Martial artist credits his achievements to the philosophy of kendo</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Dec 2012 00:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kris Kosaka</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Alex Bennett was 18 years old when he first read the wisdom &#8212; &#8220;From one thing, know 10,000&#8243; &#8212; in Miyamoto Musashi&#8217;s &#8220;The Book of Five Rings.&#8221; Now living this maxim, Bennett is a scholar, teacher, translator, writer, coach and active competitor in the martial arts. He holds two Ph.Ds in studies related to budo, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sri Lankan keen to showcase Japanese innovation</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Nov 2012 00:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Singer</dc:creator>
		
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		<title>Envoy acts as bridge between Japan, Armenia</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2012 00:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Ink artist pushes the boundaries of tattooing</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Nov 2012 00:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Pregnancy crisis center lends guidance, support</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Nov 2012 00:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Free magazines zoom in on all things Japanese</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Nov 2012 00:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Jewish Japanese-American keeps multicultural connections in tune</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Oct 2012 00:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even in casual conversation, Danny Katz entertains. His voice doesn&#8217;t just speak, it croons with comedic pacing, imitations and abrupt shifts in tone. He peppers his speech with accents, New York City slang, Japanese formalities or onomatopoeia. Katz, 35, admits that his voice was also a weapon in his years as a Manhattan paralegal in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leadership development meeting draws Girl Scouts from around world</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2012 00:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>American artist takes personal approach to traditional painting</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Oct 2012 00:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finding places in Tokyo can be complicated. All too often a simple address is not enough. That&#8217;s why many people here look like treasure hunters roaming the streets armed with a map or its modern equivalent, the smartphone. While getting lost in the business district is not particularly funny, Yanaka &#8212; not far from Ueno [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Manga artist wields &#8216;fude&#8217; brush in samurai epic</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Oct 2012 00:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Illustrator and comic book artist Mulele Jarvis came to Tokyo just as he reached adulthood. It was five years after he had first discovered manga near his home in San Francisco, at Kinokuniya Bookstore, next door to Japantown: &#8220;That&#8217;s where I found Katsuhiro Otomo&#8217;s &#8216;Akira.&#8217; I was so impressed by it, I decided I wanted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Video journalist&#8217;s work takes him to centers of the world&#8217;s conflicts</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Oct 2012 00:01:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Takeharu Watai has spent all of his two-decade career in video journalism as an independent. But he is conscious that public distrust of the mass media, particularly over its coverage of the Fukushima nuclear disaster and the nation&#8217;s nuclear energy policy, has grown so strong that, by default, it extends to journalists in this country. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Canadian musician pens piece for &#8216;Tsunami violin&#8217; performances</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Sep 2012 00:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Four months ago, Miguel Sosa, a composer, concert pianist, conductor and teacher was asked by Taizo Oba, organizer of the Bond Made of 1,000 Tones project, to write an original composition for one of the two &#8220;tsunami-debris&#8221; violins. Sosa&#8217;s first thought was &#8220;Me? Really? I never saw myself as someone who would be doing a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Filipino filmmaker-writer captures the stories of Asians on the fringe</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Sep 2012 00:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rey Ventura&#8217;s prose startles with the subtle force of cinematic images: From the &#8220;rustling leaves&#8221; that signal the return of the rebel forces to the Aeta hill tribes in the Philippines to the &#8220;standing men&#8221; or day laborers populating the alleyways of the Kotobukicho district of Yokohama. As both filmmaker and writer for over 20 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eye surgeon makes a difference, performing &#8216;miracles&#8217; in Vietnam</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1965, Akira Kurosawa directed &#8220;Akahige&#8221; (&#8220;Red Beard&#8221;), the story of an Edo Period doctor who teaches his arrogant intern the importance of compassion, responsibility, and empathizing with his patients. Ophthalmologist Tadashi Hattori has seen this movie, but he insists that he was not thinking about it when, 10 years ago, he threw away a [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Sep 2012 00:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For better or for worse, some of contemporary Japan&#8217;s most recognizable cultural products come from the ever-ebullient world of pop culture. If this country&#8217;s heroes in the 1950s and &#8217;60s were such intellectuals as film director Akira Kurosawa and author Yukio Mishima, today Japan&#8217;s calling cards &#8212; especially among younger fans &#8212; are manga and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conductor-composer hits right note with Tokyo children&#8217;s choir</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Aug 2012 00:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
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