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		<title>Let the world help at Fukushima No. 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Sep 2013 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fukushima No. 1]]></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>‘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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		<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>Readers&#8217; letters: praise for Article 9, scorn for TPP and concerns for education</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/06/18/voices/readers-letters-praise-for-article-9-scorn-for-tpp-and-concerns-for-education/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=readers-letters-praise-for-article-9-scorn-for-tpp-and-concerns-for-education</link>
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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>Politicians whitewashing history, burning bridges to the past</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 May 2013 15:01:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joel Assogba, in his Hotline to Nagata-cho column on April 30 (&#8220;Stand up to Abe for the sake of Japan, Asia&#8217;s future&#8220;), wrote that the Japanese [in particular] want to forget their most unpleasant memories as quickly as possible. He may be right. But I am not so sure, because I have no means of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using &#8216;Richard Parker&#8217; pseudonym to excuse terror, fear is most apt</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/04/02/voices/using-richard-parker-pseudonym-to-excuse-terror-fear-is-most-apt/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=using-richard-parker-pseudonym-to-excuse-terror-fear-is-most-apt</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 15:06:17 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[bullying]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whoever wrote &#8220;Right or wrong, corporal punishment can produce winners&#8221; (The Foreign Element, March 12) picked an excellent pseudonym. &#8220;Richard Parker&#8221; has a long fictional and actual history. In the Marvel Universe, Richard Parker is the father of Peter Parker, Spider-Man. You&#8217;d think that would be a good thing, but considering Richard Parker died from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Consensus: Corporal punishment in sports misguided, demoralizing, backward</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/03/26/voices/consensus-corporal-punishment-in-sports-misguided-demoralizing-backward/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=consensus-corporal-punishment-in-sports-misguided-demoralizing-backward</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 15:06:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following are some readers&#8217; responses to the March 12 Foreign Element column by Richard Parker headlined &#8220;Right or wrong, corporal punishment can produce winners.&#8221; See many more in the comment section below the original article. Coach endorses, defends violence This is a shocking piece of writing. Shocking not because some aging Japanese male coach [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;ve seen haras . . . haras that you&#8217;ve seen: when &#8216;harassment&#8217; goes wild</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/02/26/voices/ive-seen-haras-haras-that-youve-seen-when-harassment-goes-wild/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=ive-seen-haras-haras-that-youve-seen-when-harassment-goes-wild</link>
		<comments>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/02/26/voices/ive-seen-haras-haras-that-youve-seen-when-harassment-goes-wild/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 15:01:33 +0000</pubDate>
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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>Facts stack up against China&#8217;s Senkaku claim</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/01/28/voices/facts-stack-up-against-chinas-senkaku-claim/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=facts-stack-up-against-chinas-senkaku-claim</link>
		<comments>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/01/28/voices/facts-stack-up-against-chinas-senkaku-claim/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2013 12:23:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Regarding &#8220;Refer Senkaku issue to ICJ to avoid a train wreck,&#8221; Hotline to Nagata-cho, Jan. 8): Brian A. Victoria&#8217;s analogy—two steam locomotives rushing toward each other at full speed—is perfect, not so much because he predicts a collision but because it symbolizes that one of the trains is off course and on the wrong track. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Readers&#8217; views: Skype&#8217;s downside for teachers; Senkaku and the ICJ; Arudou&#8217;s ageist attack on Keene; Abe&#8217;s nuclear folly</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/01/22/voices/readers-views-skypes-downside-for-teachers-senkaku-and-the-icj-arudous-ageist-attack-on-keene-abes-nuclear-folly/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=readers-views-skypes-downside-for-teachers-senkaku-and-the-icj-arudous-ageist-attack-on-keene-abes-nuclear-folly</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2013 00:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do we really need to know ages? Re: &#8220;Osaka: What are your hopes for yourself, Japan and the world in 2013?&#8221; (Views From The Street, Jan. 1): Looking at your questions to people of Osaka about their hopes for 2013, I wonder &#8212; yet again &#8212; about the Japanese obsession with people&#8217;s ages? What on [...]]]></description>
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