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		<title>Beninese ambassador brings TV star power to diplomacy</title>
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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[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>Young Ethiopia envoy brings new ideas, energy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Aug 2013 14:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
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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>British ambassador laments his two &#8216;lost decades&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 15:14:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mami Maruko</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tim Hitchens]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tim Hitchens, the new British ambassador to Japan, has observed with his own eyes the country&#8217;s economic transition since he first visited here as a teenager back in the 1970s. But even as Japan stumbled through economic turbulence — from the oil crisis of the 1970s to the economic bubble of the late 1980s and, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Green growth&#8217; tops Costa Rican envoy&#8217;s agenda</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 15:07:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mami Maruko</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Costa Rican Ambassador Alvaro Cedeno Molinari says his mission here is to deliver his country&#8217;s message on green growth and renewable energy — and to develop what he describes as a green growth agenda between his country and Japan. &#8220;My agenda is not a technical one. I&#8217;m not a biologist, I&#8217;m not an engineer. I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Romania envoy hopes cultural affinity boosts ties</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 15:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mami Maruko</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Radu Serban]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Romanian Ambassador Radu Serban is a veteran diplomat with a mission to promote economic ties with Japan. But the envoy, 61, has another agenda — promoting cultural and educational exchanges, which ties into his personal love of Japanese literature, especially haiku. Serban&#8217;s love of haiku and admiration for Japanese haiku poets, including the Edo Period [...]]]></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>Envoy puts focus on people-to-people ties</title>
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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>Envoy acts as bridge between Japan, Armenia</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2012 00:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mami Maruko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It didn&#8217;t come as much of a surprise to Grant Pogosyan when the offer came to him from the Armenian government to become his home country&#8217;s ambassador to Japan. For over 20 years, Pogosyan, 59, has lived and worked in Japan &#8212; albeit in a completely different field &#8212; teaching mathematics and computer science at [...]]]></description>
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