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	<title>The Japan Times &#187; MIXED MATCHES</title>
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		<title>Seattle as the city of love?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2013 14:45:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Magdalena Osumi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[If you think that &#8220;Sleepless in Seattle&#8221; was the only love story that the city has ever known, you&#8217;ve got a lot to learn. Seattle has many romantic tales to tell. This story wouldn&#8217;t have had a happy ending if Anna Morawska, 42, from Poland, had not gone to the United States to spend her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mitaka pair find flexibility key in navigating values</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Aug 2013 14:02:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mami Maruko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Almost 33 years since their first encounter in 1980, Bill Achilles, who hails from Geneva, New York, and his wife, Michiko, from Tokyo say they share more or less the same values &#8212; by merging Japanese and American cultures. After working for eight different companies, including those in the financial industry with expertise in human [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Haiku brought together Polish-Japanese couple</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jul 2013 14:45:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Magdalena Osumi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[They say that languages bring people closer together and bridge distances. So, too, does the Internet. ]]></description>
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		<title>Couple find happiness, plan to settle for life</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 15:02:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mami Maruko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Joerg Schnackenberg, 51, from Germany, and his wife, Teruka, 59, met in Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture, in 1995. Joerg, a biochemist who came to Japan right after finishing his Ph.D. at a German university, had been working at a private marine technology institute in Kamaishi for three years. Teruka, a nihonga (traditional Japanese painting) artist from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Print engineer slows down international nomad</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2012 00:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mami Maruko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Nara native Atsushi Takagi and Mihaela Serbulea from Bucharest met in 2003 when Mihaela gave a lecture on SARS for an international exchange organization in which Atsushi is a member. They hit it off at a social gathering after the lecture, when they found out they have a mutual interest in mountain climbing. They went [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Well-traveled Brit wins woman with &#8216;cheeky smile&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2012 00:01:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mami Maruko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Dave Greatbanks of England met his future wife, Mimari, in 2000 when he was teaching English at a language school in Niigata that she attended once a week after work. Dave, 35, was born at an army garrison in Yorkshire where his father worked, and spent his childhood in Liverpool and Germany. Upon graduating from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cheers! Wine shop serves as a bridge for couple</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2012 00:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mami Maruko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Jamie Paquin and Nozomi Mihara, who jointly own an all-Canadian wine shop that opened in Tokyo last year, met by chance at a cafe six years ago. They were sitting next to each other &#8212; Nozomi studying English and Jamie Japanese &#8212; and started chatting. After several exchanges of language lessons, they started dating, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Psychology, counseling interests unite couple</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2012 00:01:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mami Maruko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Japanese-American John Shiomi, 40, and his wife, Misako, 32, met in the city of Fukuoka in January last year. Misako had posted a message about wanting a friend in the online version of Fukuoka Now, a free publication for foreigners in the area. After corresponding by email, they met and began dating soon after. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All systems go for happy international campers</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2012 00:01:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mami Maruko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Shiro Matsuoka, 39, from Kawasaki, and Zhang Yi, 33, who hails from Changchung, China, first met in 2004 when they were working part-time at a McDonald&#8217;s in Tokyo. Shiro was studying to become a chiropractor and Yi was studying English, and they worked early in the morning before going to their schools. Coincidentally, both had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Front-row student bags her &#8216;eye-candy&#8217; teacher</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2012 00:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mami Maruko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Tomoyuki Akiyama and his wife, Stephanie Napier, were brought up in completely different environments, but about a decade ago, fate led them to an encounter at the University of South Carolina in Columbia. The couple dated for over a year, then moved to Texas where Stephanie was doing her postgraduate studies. They got married in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Couple move to the beat of a different drum</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2012 00:01:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mami Maruko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[American Chris Holland and Lisa Kakinoki from Yokohama, both 26, first met in 2006 when they were studying at J.F. Oberlin University in Tokyo. Chris was a philosophy major at the University of Hawaii who was visiting on a one-year program to study Japanese and learning wadaiko (Japanese drumming). Lisa, born in Ibaraki Prefecture and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Cutest&#8217; girl counsels &#8216;distinguished&#8217; Ohioan to aisle</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 00:01:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mami Maruko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Nicholas Canalos, 31, from Ohio, and Akiko, 29, who hails from Saitama Prefecture, both studied and aspired at university to become English teachers &#8212; in their respective home countries. The couple first met in Tokyo at a &#8220;juku&#8221; (supplementary school) for junior high and high school students where Nicholas taught English, and where Akiko made [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Architect builds bridge to Thai wife</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 00:02:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mami Maruko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Yoichi Kubota, a scholar in environmental planning and design, met Patmakorn Suntharothok, who was to become his future wife, for the first time when she was studying business management in the United States 12 years ago. Pat (short for Patmakorn) happened to be researching environmental management, and she came across a website of Saitama University, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sansei&#8217;s pursuit of love overcomes distance</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 00:02:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mami Maruko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Dale Araki is a third-generation Japanese-American who spent most of his childhood in Arkansas, Alabama, Georgia and North Carolina before settling in San Francisco. It was there in 1977 that he first met Shoko, who was to become his future wife. They enrolled in a class on American phonetics at San Francisco State University &#8212; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sharing a raft: Things click from get-go</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mami Maruko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Hiroshi Kato, 40, born in Sendai and raised in Kawasaki, met his wife Ying &#8212; from Harbin in northeast China &#8212; in Tokyo in fall 2007. Ying, 32, who followed her older sister to Japan in 2001, was working as a secretary at a software development company. Hiroshi worked for a firm that sent engineers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pair&#8217;s engagement blossomed in China</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 00:02:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mami Maruko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Kazunobu Seto and his wife, Robin, met in his hometown of Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, in 2004. Robin, from Thunder Bay, Ontario, was a teacher on a one-year contract at an English conversational school in Kanazawa. They met at a sports club they had both been using. They dated for about six months, got engaged and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Musical couple&#8217;s commitment helps husband beat addiction</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 00:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mami Maruko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[American Mike Rogers and his wife, Yuka, of Kanagawa Prefecture, met at an HMV store in Toshima Ward, Tokyo, in 1992. Mike, who had recently cofounded a record label, was promoting the label&#8217;s CDs at the shop when he met Yuka, the in-store DJ at the time who played his label&#8217;s music. After dating for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jamaica coffee, music recipe for success</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 00:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mami Maruko</dc:creator>
		
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		<title>Juvenile issues bring couple together</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 00:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mami Maruko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Vincent Marx, 47, from the U.S. state of Washington, and his wife Emiko, a Tokyo native, first met at a juvenile detention center in Seattle in 1992. Emiko, now 42, was then a senior at the University of Washington who had transferred from Keio University in Tokyo the year before. With a major in sociology, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top blogger illustrates Chinese wife&#8217;s struggles</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Reiji Yoshida</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[W ith his winning of the prestigious Alpha Blogger Awards 2010, Tokyo-based cartoonist Junichi Inoue is now recognized as one of the most influential Japanese bloggers. His blog carries comic strips of amusing episodes about a new life with his young, Chinese wife, Yue, who is in her mid-20s and struggling with cultural and language [...]]]></description>
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		<title>North America midway destination</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 00:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mami Maruko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Kim and Junko Knudsen&#8217;s house is full of American primitive country decor they brought back from their honeymoon in the U.S. South. The couple love country music, too, and plan to live in the United States or Canada in the near future. Kim, 41, who was born in Panama of a Panamanian mother and Danish [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pair go together like pasta, dessert</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 00:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mami Maruko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;People around us tell us that we&#8217;re like meoto-manzai (stand up comedians). We&#8217;re always surrounded by laughter,&#8221; says Atsuko Nonogaki Planeta, 43. &#8220;We&#8217;re talking all the time. I never get bored,&#8221; Paolo Planeta, from Genoa, Italy, adds. Paolo, 37, and Atsuko met in Tokyo at a networking party in September 2006. They dated for just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From love of anime to love of a man</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mami Maruko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[When Mel Ushikubo, 35, saw the name of her future husband, Kohei, on the Internet, she immediately wanted to see him in person, as that was the name of a character in one of her favorite anime. &#8220;I was an anime freak, and saw about 100 anime, including &#8216;Naruto,&#8217; &#8216;One Piece&#8217; and &#8216;Orange Road&#8217; in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Canadian&#8217;s health issue unites couple</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 00:01:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mami Maruko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[On their first date, Eiko Tiernan was told by her future husband, Laurier, that he has Marfan syndrome, a congenital hereditary disease that affects about 1 in 5,000 people. At first, she did not know how to react, as she knew nothing about the disease. Four months later, having gradually learned about the syndrome, she [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Absence makes couple grow fonder</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 00:02:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natsuko Fukue</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Long-distance relationships are no longer rare in today&#8217;s global village. But how long can a couple last without actually seeing each other? Fukuoka residents Naoko Yufu, 28, and 26-year-old Xie Guosong from China have been apart for about four of the five years of their relationship. But thanks to trust and good communication they were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Javan culture brings couple together</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2010 00:01:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mami Maruko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Sumiyanto, 31, born and raised in the Klaten regency of central Java, and Ayako Nezu, 39, from Kawasaki, met in 2002 in the central part of the Indonesian island while they were studying at a national traditional arts college in Solo. Nezu was studying Javanese dance, while Sumiyanto was a student of music, majoring in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>For couple, home is where the heart is</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2010 00:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mami Maruko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Andrew Pickard, 42, from Leeds in northern England, and Kayoko Hirayama, 35, of Tokyo, met seven years ago at an aikido dojo in Tokyo. For about two years they were just friends, and sometimes went out drinking with a group of people from the dojo. When Andrew changed jobs, he got too busy for aikido, [...]]]></description>
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