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	<title>The Japan Times &#187; Voices</title>
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		<title>Beninese ambassador brings TV star power to diplomacy</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/09/30/voices/beninese-ambassador-brings-tv-star-power-to-diplomacy/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=beninese-ambassador-brings-tv-star-power-to-diplomacy</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Sep 2013 14:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mami Maruko</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Benin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zomahoun Rufin]]></category>

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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>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/09/30/voices/tokyo-how-do-you-feel-about-the-capital-hosting-the-2020-olympics/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=tokyo-how-do-you-feel-about-the-capital-hosting-the-2020-olympics</link>
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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>
		<category><![CDATA[AKB48]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kohei Uchimura]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tokyo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tokyo 2020]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tokyo 2020 Olympic bid]]></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>Why are so many Nepalese in Japan taking their own lives?</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/09/23/voices/why-are-so-many-nepalese-in-japan-taking-their-own-lives/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=why-are-so-many-nepalese-in-japan-taking-their-own-lives</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Sep 2013 14:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[expats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jobs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nepal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[suicide]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[universities]]></category>

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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>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/09/23/voices/tokyo-what-would-you-like-to-be-reincarnated-as/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=tokyo-what-would-you-like-to-be-reincarnated-as</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Sep 2013 14:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Buckton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[animals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[birds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reincarnation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tokyo]]></category>

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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>
		<dc:creator></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[fukushima]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fukushima No. 1]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nihongo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nuclear energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[radiation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tepco]]></category>
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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>Tokyo: the city that wants clubbers to sleep after midnight</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/09/16/voices/tokyo-the-city-that-wants-clubbers-to-sleep-after-midnight/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=tokyo-the-city-that-wants-clubbers-to-sleep-after-midnight</link>
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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>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>
				<category><![CDATA[fukushima]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fukushima No. 1]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nuclear energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Osaka]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[radiation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[radiation leak]]></category>
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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>Tokyo: Have you ever had any trouble with immigration in Japan?</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/09/09/voices/tokyo-have-you-ever-had-any-trouble-with-immigration-in-japan/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=tokyo-have-you-ever-had-any-trouble-with-immigration-in-japan</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Sep 2013 13:45:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Buckton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[expats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigration Bureau]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Justice Ministry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Narita]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[visas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Tokyo residents share their stories about their dealings with Japan's Immigration Bureau on entry, exit and at visa-renewal time]]></description>
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		<title>Tokyo: How would you describe Roppongi in one word?</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/09/02/voices/tokyo-how-would-you-describe-roppongi-in-one-word/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=tokyo-how-would-you-describe-roppongi-in-one-word</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Sep 2013 14:50:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Buckton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[nightlife]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roppongi]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hiroyuki Kadota, 32Nursery school teacher (Japanese)&#8220;Roadworks.&#8221; When I was a lot younger I went there, and I don&#8217;t have a great memory of that time because it was all roadworks, everywhere you look. And later, when a little older, when I went into bars I was just scared and don&#8217;t remember much. Aya Fujigamori, 21Tourism [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Of nuclear village idiots and radiation scare-mongerers: letters</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/08/26/voices/of-nuclear-village-idiots-and-radiation-scare-mongerers-letters/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=of-nuclear-village-idiots-and-radiation-scare-mongerers-letters</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Aug 2013 14:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[3/11]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fukushima No. 1]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nab Tepco execs, take over the clean-up Until reading Brian Victoria&#8217;s letter on Aug. 13, I felt at times that perhaps I was being too much of an alarmist over the radiation dangers at Fukushima&#8217;s No. 1 nuclear power plant. But now I realize that, if anything, I was being a bit too optimistic. Victoria [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tokyo: How much TV do you watch each week, and what do you watch?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Aug 2013 14:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Buckton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[television]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From "none" to "watching  TV
is pretty much all I do," Tokyoites explain their diverse viewing habits.]]></description>
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		<title>Denials of defoliant at former U.S. base site in Okinawa fly in the face of science</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Aug 2013 14:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Agent Orange]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The inescapable fact is that the U.S. military, on Kadena Air Base, disposed of materials in drums containing 2,4,5-T , a wartime defoliant, and TCDD, the most toxic component of the dioxin family, known to be associated with the manufacture of such herbicides.]]></description>
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		<title>Abe and his ministers give anti-foreigner rallies tacit green light</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/08/19/voices/abe-and-his-ministers-give-anti-foreigner-rallies-tacit-green-light/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=abe-and-his-ministers-give-anti-foreigner-rallies-tacit-green-light</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Aug 2013 14:03:22 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Chinese residents]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[To the government of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe: I read with sadness The Japan Times of July 11. In it, an article (&#8220;Politicians silent on curbing hate speech&#8221; by Eric Johnston) spoke of the demonstrations taking place, largely in Osaka and Tokyo, which demonize foreign residents in Japan [and in particular Koreans] and openly speak [...]]]></description>
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		<title>‘Halfies’ and hapa the norm elsewhere</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Aug 2013 14:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hapa haole celebrated in Hawaii I&#8217;m writing about an article published in your newspaper and written by Ryan Surdick with the title &#8220;There is more to my son than the fact he&#8217;s a &#8216;half&#8217; &#8220;(The Foreign Element, July 29). A perspective from Hawaii where my two children are &#8220;half&#8221; and who are here called hapa [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The perennial &#8216;half, bi or double?&#8217; debate rolls on</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Aug 2013 14:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Confounding &#8216;half&#8217; stereotypes Re: &#8220;There is more to my son than the fact he&#8217;s a &#8216;half&#8217; &#8221; by Ryan Surdick (The Foreign Element, July 29): I&#8217;m a bicultural teenage girl and I have lived in Japan since I was 8 months old. I connected to this article in a very personal way and it also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tokyo: If today was your last day on Earth, what on Earth would you do?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Aug 2013 14:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Buckton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shintaro Horiki Barman, 33 (Japanese) I would do as I always do — no real changes for me. I would stay home or go to work, to sleep — same as always, except perhaps for one thing: I always take one hour to get home after finishing work, but if it was my last day [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Radiation fears forced me to postpone Japan visit by U.S. students</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/08/12/voices/radiation-fears-forced-me-to-postpone-japan-visit-by-u-s-students/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=radiation-fears-forced-me-to-postpone-japan-visit-by-u-s-students</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Aug 2013 14:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Minister of Education Hakubun Shimomura, Let me begin by expressing my strong support in principle for the Japanese government&#8217;s ongoing efforts to increase the number of foreign students in Japan from the current 140,000 to 300,000 students by 2020. This exchange cannot but enrich all participants. I use the words &#8220;in principle&#8221; because in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>For the sake of Japan&#8217;s future, stop glorifying past crimes at Yasukuni</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Aug 2013 14:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, it hurts the victims of the Imperial Japanese military's war of terror that ministers of your government and members of parliament continue to visit Yasukuni Shrine.]]></description>
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		<title>Young Ethiopia envoy brings new ideas, energy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Aug 2013 14:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mami Maruko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Ethiopian Ambassador Markos Tekle Rike, 34, says he has always felt a special connection between his country and Japan, although he did not have any personal interest in this country before he arrived here 2&#189; years ago. Japanese products and ways of thinking, he says, were very popular in Ethiopia when he was growing up. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Osaka: What was your dream job  as a child, and would you still like to do it now if you could?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Aug 2013 14:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Franklin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Employment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sae Shida, 29Waitress (Japanese)As a little girl I dreamed of being a flight attendant, because my aunt was one for Cathay Pacific airlines, and I always thought she looked so beautiful and sophisticated in her uniform. And of course the international travel sounded very appealing. I definitely would do it today if I could, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tokyo: Now that Abe&#8217;s coalition has  a majority in both Diet chambers, what should he do?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jul 2013 14:45:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Buckton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kiyomitsu YokoyamaProperty manager, 34 (Japanese)I would like to buy a house in the future, so while housing loan taxes are low now, I would like to see Mr. Abe help those looking to buy houses by lowering these taxes even further. Also, I think that until the economy improves, the consumption tax should not be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tokyo: Which famous Japanese person would you most like to meet and why?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jul 2013 14:10:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Buckton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yasuyoshi WadaBartender, 31 (Japanese)If I had a chance, I&#8217;d like to meet the ex-Blue Hearts singer Hiroto Komoto, who covered issues such as many people entering companies all wearing the same suit, all wanting to join big firms and wanting to buy the same-style house. I like him because he &#8220;sang out&#8221; about these things. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tokyo: Which of Japan&#8217;s many summer firework displays do you recommend?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jul 2013 14:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Buckton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Daisuke Wakabayashi College student, 21 (Japanese) I think the best fireworks display in Japan is in Nagaoka, Niigata Prefecture. Even though it is not the biggest in Japan, the huge round fireworks let off there are very famous and attract people from all over the place. I&#8217;m looking forward to seeing the Nagaoka fireworks this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bumps in the road that we can afford</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jul 2013 14:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Akihiro Ota, I recently attended the induction ceremony for one of my children at a local elementary school. We listened to various speeches, one of which was of particular interest: A traffic police officer spoke at length about the hazards faced by children as they travel to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nagoya:  What was your best holiday ever, and why?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jul 2013 14:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Carr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[South Korea. I have many Korean friends and I love going to Seoul. It is a wonderful city for shopping, eating and pampering yourself. Some of the food is rather like delicacies you can find in Japan, yet subtly different, such as <em>tok</em>, their version of our <em>mochi</em> (pounded rice cakes) and their chicken stew. I particularly enjoy massage, combined with being cleansed in a Korean dome-type sauna. Usually I stay five days or a week.]]></description>
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		<title>Tokyo: Do you think conscription — in Japan or elsewhere — is a good thing or a bad idea?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jun 2013 15:01:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Buckton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alice GicqueauStudent, 16 (French)I think conscription is a bad idea because we always say people are equal and can do what they want, and I myself am all for liberty and freedom of choice. To that end, people, whoever they are, must be able to do what they want, and if they don&#8217;t want to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mr. Mayor, tear down this smoking area and make Toshima a true &#8216;safe community&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:06:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To Yukio Takano, Mayor of Toshima Ward, Tokyo: I urge you to dismantle the new tobacco industry-funded smoking area in the crowded center of our ward. Please instead respect Toshima Ward&#8217;s commitment as a World Health Organization-certified Safe Community and our nation&#8217;s obligations under the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) by making all ward [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Readers&#8217; letters: praise for Article 9, scorn for TPP and concerns for education</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:05:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some readers&#8217; letters in response to recent Community articles: War is crime, Article 9 the solution I try to stay out of Japanese politics, not being a native of Japan. But I live here, and this includes me in the politics of this country. Actually, being human, this includes me in world politics. I also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Please, prime minister, just let me be a father</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2013 15:05:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, As a boy growing up in America, my mother and father would have frequent arguments. It was a stressful time for everyone, and eventually they got divorced when I was in 2nd grade in elementary school. During the divorce proceedings all of my family members went through an especially difficult [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Osaka: What do you make of Mayor Toru Hashimoto’s comments about “comfort women” and his suggestion that U.S. forces in Okinawa use local brothels?</title>
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		<comments>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/05/28/voices/osaka-what-do-you-make-of-osaka-mayor-toru-hashimotos-comments-about-comfort-women-being-necessary-and-his-suggestion-that-u-s-forces-in-okinawa-work-off-their-frustrations-in-brothels-t/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 May 2013 15:02:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Franklin</dc:creator>
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