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	<title>The Japan Times &#187; HAVE YOUR SAY</title>
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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>
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				<category><![CDATA[3/11]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fukushima]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fukushima No. 1]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nuclear energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[radiation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[radiation leak]]></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>Is Shintaro Ishihara the most dangerous man in Japan? Readers discuss</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2012 00:01:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Parallels with wartime general Re: &#8220;The world according to Toru Hashimoto&#8221; by Eric Johnston (Light Gist, Oct. 30): Only one kana syllable (or one letter in romaji) separates (Nippon Ishin no Kai leader Shintaro) Ishihara from (Imperial Japanese Army) Gen. (Kanji) Ishiwara, but there&#8217;s more to the similarity between the two men than their names. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Give bright young mothers a chance to contribute to society, flourish</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2012/11/27/voices/give-bright-young-mothers-a-chance-to-contribute-to-society-flourish/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=give-bright-young-mothers-a-chance-to-contribute-to-society-flourish</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2012 00:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Re: &#8220;Labor law protects expectant and new mothers &#8212; to a point&#8221; by Hifumi Okunuki (Labor Pains, Oct. 16): Japanese society has long been &#8220;traditional&#8221; in the sense that women who became pregnant, or even simply got married, were expected to end their working lives and stay at home in support of their husband and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>There&#8217;s much more to Mormonism than this</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2012 00:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The truth of Mormon As a Mormon living in Japan, I would like to take a moment to comment on John Spiri&#8217;s article &#8220;Against all odds, Mormons in Japan soldier on&#8221; (Zeit Gist, Oct. 23). It is nice to see more written on the church, although I am not sure I appreciate how it was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Revisionists, the Senkakus and Debito: readers&#8217; views</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2012/11/06/voices/revisionists-the-senkakus-and-debito-readers-views/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=revisionists-the-senkakus-and-debito-readers-views</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2012 00:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some readers&#8217; letters in response to Debito Arudou&#8217;s Oct. 2 Just Be Cause column, &#8220;Revisionists marching Japan back to a dangerous place&#8220;: Your bias is showing, Arudou As a professional in international politics and security, and a longtime resident in Japan, reading Arudou&#8217;s column, I sincerely hoped most people would not be duped into thinking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taiji hunts continue to anger, confound readers</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2012 00:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Readers&#8217; responses received to the Sept. 11 Hotline to Nagatacho column, &#8220;Stop the annual Taiji dolphin massacre, make your children proud&#8221; by Deb Bowen-Saunders, and letters published on this subject on Oct. 9 (&#8220;Call to stop dolphin hunt in Taiji makes waves,&#8221; Have Your Say): Dolphins&#8217; moral compass Regarding Joseph Jaworski&#8217;s letter on the Oct. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Think &#8216;white South Africa,&#8217; not &#8216;Black Ships&#8217;; in unions&#8217; defense</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2012 00:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Japan must play by the rules Re: Edward Moreno&#8217;s letter &#8220;Bring back the Black Ships?&#8221; (Have Your Say, Oct. 2) in response to &#8220;Our mixed-race children deserve better than this, so why bother with Japan?&#8221; by Colin P.A. Jones (Zeit Gist, Sept. 4): Moreno is right about one thing, in that he certainly is confused. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Call to stop dolphin hunt in Taiji makes waves</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2012/10/09/voices/call-to-stop-dolphin-hunt-in-taiji-makes-waves/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=call-to-stop-dolphin-hunt-in-taiji-makes-waves</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2012 00:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some of the many readers&#8217; letters The Japan Times received in response to the Sept. 11 Hotline to Nagatacho column, &#8220;Stop the annual Taiji dolphin massacre, make your children proud&#8221; by Deb Bowen-Saunders: Dolphins are not people My response to Deb Bowen-Saunders will mirror my Jan. 12 (Readers in Council) letter, &#8220;The moral case against [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Divergent views on Debito; the fate of mixed-nationality kids</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2012/10/02/voices/divergent-views-on-debito-the-fate-of-mixed-nationality-kids/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=divergent-views-on-debito-the-fate-of-mixed-nationality-kids</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2012 00:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Arudou&#8217;s writing still needed Most of the readers who indignantly criticize the writings of Debito Arudou seem to share the same outlook. Arudou, they say, should shut up and accept the good with the bad. This reminds me of myself 20 years ago, after first arriving in Japan. My first trainer, a Scotsman who spoke [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fears over Hashimoto, beefs with Berlitz story</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2012 00:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recipe for &#8216;Hashism&#8217;? Re: &#8220;How did we end up here, in &#8216;Hashimotopia,&#8217; 2022?&#8221; by Christopher Robinson and Ben Stubbings (Light Gist, Aug. 28): I believe that (Osaka Mayor) Toru Hashimoto&#8217;s flip-flops are part of an ingenious political strategy. Hashimoto claimed to be opposed to restarting nuclear power plants in his neighboring prefecture (of Fukui), [...]]]></description>
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		<title>For nikkei, It doesn&#8217;t have to be a bug&#8217;s life: readers bite back</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2012/09/04/voices/for-nikkei-it-doesnt-have-to-be-a-bugs-life-readers-bite-back/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=for-nikkei-it-doesnt-have-to-be-a-bugs-life-readers-bite-back</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2012 00:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Readers&#8217; responses to Debito Arudou&#8217;s last Just Be Cause column, &#8220;For nikkei immigrants in Japan, it doesn&#8217;t have to be a bug&#8217;s life&#8221; (Aug. 7): Arudou of the Occident As a former nikkei resident of Japan, I, as well as my community colleagues, must express strong disapproval of The Japan Times&#8217; decision to publish Debito [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paid leave, advice for foreign parents, JET&#8217;s value: readers&#8217; views</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2012 00:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Uncompetitive Japan Inc. Not being a Japanese person employed in a private Japanese company, it is hard for me to imagine the hardship experienced by the writer of the July 17 Have Your Say letter (&#8220;Working employees to death&#8221;). I can, however, say with a high degree of confidence that laws mandating time off from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Less naming and shaming, better translations and more pragmatism, please</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2012 00:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Readers&#8217; responses to Debito Arudou&#8217;s last column, &#8220;In formulating immigration policy, no seat at the table for non-Japanese&#8221;: Outrageous claims need rebutting In his July 3 column, Mr. Debito Arudou makes gratuitous mention of my name and says that in my articles for The Japan Times I never miss an opportunity to claim how open-minded [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Debate rages over value of JET program, assistant language teachers</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jul 2012 00:01:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some readers&#8217; responses to letters published in this column on July 10 (&#8220;Readers lament the ever-shrinking eikaiwa salary&#8220;) regarding Patrick Budmar&#8217;s July 3 Zeit Gist article, &#8220;The curious case of the eroding eikaiwa salary&#8220;: ALTs a waste of boards&#8217; money I agree with much of what was written in Patrick Budmar&#8217;s article &#8212; except for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gawking children are tolerable, but adults have no excuse</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jul 2012 00:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Belated readers&#8217; responses to &#8220;Parents, please keep your kids away from me at feeding time&#8221; by Christy Bridgeman (Hotline to Nagatacho, May 22) and J. Bradley Bulsterbaum&#8217;s letter on the subject, &#8220;Cut gaijin-gawking children some slack &#8212; it&#8217;s how they learn&#8221; (Have Your Say, June 26): Think, ask before you touch I read both articles [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Flyjin&#8217; feel vindicated, worry for those left in Japan: some readers&#8217; responses</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2012/07/24/voices/flyjin-feel-vindicated-worry-for-those-left-in-japan-some-readers-responses/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=flyjin-feel-vindicated-worry-for-those-left-in-japan-some-readers-responses</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2012 00:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Responses to Patrick Budmar&#8217;s June 12 Zeit Gist article, &#8221; &#8216;Flyjin&#8217; feel vindicated, worry for those left in Japan:&#8220; Don&#8217;t offer stage to Chicken Littles Ivan Stout and &#8220;Kate&#8221; may feel vindicated, but they certainly hold themselves up to continued derision by their rationalizations, lack of understanding of nuclear energy, and reliance on international naysayers. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Employees should work toward a life of leisure, not live to work</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2012/07/17/voices/employees-should-work-toward-a-life-of-leisure-not-live-to-work/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=employees-should-work-toward-a-life-of-leisure-not-live-to-work</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2012 00:01:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some readers&#8217; responses to Hifumi Okunuki&#8217;s June 19 Labor Pains column, &#8220;In &#8216;right-to-work&#8217; Japan, employees should also have the right to rest&#8220;: The pursuit of real leisure Hifumi Okunuki calls for comments regarding Japanese workers&#8217; right to rest. I agree with her criticism that workers&#8217; statutory right to paid leave was undermined by the Supreme [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Readers lament the ever-shrinking eikaiwa salary</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2012 00:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some readers&#8217; responses to &#8220;The curious case of the eroding eikaiwa salary&#8221; by Patrick Budmar (Zeit Gist, July 3): JET program is a dinosaur Your article paints the image that only JET (Japan Exchange and Teaching Programme) ALTs (assistant language teachers) connect to their community, and that they leave Japan with continuing strong connections. However, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strong winds linger from the microaggressions tempest</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2012/07/03/voices/strong-winds-linger-from-the-microaggressions-tempest/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=strong-winds-linger-from-the-microaggressions-tempest</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2012 00:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Readers&#8217; responses to Debito Arudou&#8217;s May 1 Just Be Cause column, &#8220;Yes, I can use chopsticks: the everyday &#8216;microaggressions&#8217; that grind us down,&#8221; his followup June 5 JBC column, &#8220;Guestists, Haters, the Vested: Apologists take many forms,&#8221; and Colin P.A. Jones&#8217; counterarticle, &#8220;Much ado, but microimportant&#8221; (Zeit Gist, June 5): Ice-breakers aren&#8217;t microaggressions Yes, Japanese [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cut gaijin-gawking children some slack &#8212; it&#8217;s how they learn</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2012/06/26/voices/cut-gaijin-gawking-children-some-slack-its-how-they-learn/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=cut-gaijin-gawking-children-some-slack-its-how-they-learn</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2012 00:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Re: &#8220;Parents, please keep your kids away from me at feeding time&#8221; by Christy Bridgeman (Hotline to Nagatacho, May 22): I don&#8217;t square with this writer&#8217;s rub; inquisitive children are amusing too, especially when trying to understand something. And the questions they ask! You needn&#8217;t be foreign to have them stare. I can appreciate sensitivity [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;It&#8217;s just because &#8230; foreigners know best&#8217;: readers&#8217; views</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2012/06/05/voices/its-just-because-foreigners-know-best-readers-views/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=its-just-because-foreigners-know-best-readers-views</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jun 2012 00:02:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some readers&#8217; views on John Spiri&#8217;s May 1 Zeit Gist column, &#8220;It&#8217;s just because . . . foreigners know best&#8221;: Why does Japan fire us all up? I applaud John Spiri for his long but well-balanced Zeit Gist article, and I note The Japan Times sensibly placing Debito Arudou&#8217;s &#8220;Just Be Cause&#8221; column alongside. As [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Your haiku: the good, the bad and the ugly of Japan</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2012/05/29/voices/your-haiku-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-of-japan/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=your-haiku-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-of-japan</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 00:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following are the winners of the haiku competition launched to mark the Community section&#8217;s 10th anniversary. The five recipients of the top prize, a copy of Debito Arudou and Akira Higuchi&#8217;s &#8220;Handbook for Newcomers, Migrants and Immigrants,&#8221; are marked by an asterisk. Other winners will receive a poster illustrated by artist Chris Mackenzie. Thank [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The elephant in the foreigner&#8217;s room now has a name: microaggression</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2012/05/22/voices/the-elephant-in-the-foreigners-room-now-has-a-name-microaggression/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-elephant-in-the-foreigners-room-now-has-a-name-microaggression</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 00:02:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some positive and negative readers&#8217; reactions to Debito Arudou&#8217;s provocative and widely read May 1 Just Be Cause column, &#8220;Yes, I can use chopsticks: the everyday &#8216;microaggressions&#8217; that grind us down&#8220;: POSITIVE A weight off my shoulders I just wanted to thank you for writing this article. It is the first time anybody has been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Readers vent over &#8216;Bread and becquerels&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2012/05/15/voices/readers-vent-over-bread-and-becquerels/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=readers-vent-over-bread-and-becquerels</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 00:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some readers&#8217; responses to the April 17 Zeit Gist column by Gianni Simone, &#8220;Bread and becquerels: a year of living dangerously&#8220;: Feeding foreign media falsehoods In reading the article &#8220;Bread and becquerels,&#8221; I cannot help but be puzzled by the content and implications. Contrary to the title, in the article there is no mention of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Debito takes on Donald: readers&#8217; responses</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 00:02:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some readers&#8217; responses to Debito Arudou&#8217;s April 3 column, &#8220;Keene should engage brain before fueling &#8216;flyjin,&#8217; foreign crime myths&#8220;: Pandering to racial profiling Donald Keene has done much to promote a greater cultural understanding of Japan in the Western world. Why would he denigrate those foreign residents in Japan who strive to do the same? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Revolving-door immigration policy hard-wired to fail: readers&#8217; responses</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 00:02:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some responses to Debito Arudou&#8217;s March 6 Just Be Cause column, &#8220;Japan&#8217;s revolving-door immigration policy hard-wired to fail&#8220;: Evidence contradicts claims Having just watched the news that 38 percent of the Indonesian care assistants passed the test at the most recent examination (with the newly added furigana), and that 11 percent of their nursing compatriots [...]]]></description>
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		<title>JET teacher outfoxes board, Dr. Savoie&#8217;s Hague prescription: readers&#8217; responses</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2012/03/27/voices/jet-teacher-outfoxes-board-dr-savoies-hague-prescription-readers-responses/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=jet-teacher-outfoxes-board-dr-savoies-hague-prescription-readers-responses</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 00:02:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some responses to Patrick Budmar&#8217;s Feb. 28 Light Gist column, &#8220;Teacher outfoxes board, exposes bid to fleece JETs&#8220;: Sense of deja vu This story sounds exactly like what happened to me during my final year on JET (the Japan Exchange and Teaching Programme), except my BOE (board of education) supervisor told me that I needed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A few of readers&#8217; favorite things; heated discussion on the burning issue of warmth</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 00:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A selection of readers&#8217; responses to Debito Arudou&#8217;s Feb. 7 Just Be Cause column, &#8220;These are a few of my favorite things about Japan&#8220;: Disrespecting the handicapped As the father of a disabled child and fellow rights activist, I found it disappointing and more than a little hypocritical that one of Debito&#8217;s favorite things about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Solving Japan&#8217;s succession conundrum</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:01:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lack of males a recent trend I very much enjoyed the comprehensive article on the Japanese Imperial family by Prof. Colin P.A. Jones of Doshisha Law School in Kyoto (&#8220;And then there was one?: Japan&#8217;s right royal crisis,&#8221; Zeit Gist, Jan. 17). Though I greatly benefited from the article, I have a couple of small [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Questions raised about account of Tokyo cop assault</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:01:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some readers&#8217; responses to the Jan. 24 Zeit Gist column by Simon Scott, headlined &#8220;American claims Tokyo cop assaulted son, 8&#8220;: Poor excuse for a news story Can someone please explain to me how this constitutes news? Is this the kind of story that would fill a page in any metro paper in the world? [...]]]></description>
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