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	<title>The Japan Times &#187; THE FOREIGN ELEMENT</title>
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		<title>Cultural and legal hurdles block path to child adoptions in Japan</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Sep 2013 14:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Lewis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While more than 7,000 couples applied to adopt or become foster parents every year between 2006 and 2010, only 309 children were adopted in fiscal 2010, according to government figures.]]></description>
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		<title>The PTA: a survival guide for foreign parents</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/09/23/issues/the-pta-a-survival-guide-for-foreign-parents/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-pta-a-survival-guide-for-foreign-parents</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Sep 2013 14:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Louise George Kittaka</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PTA &#8212; the mere mention of the three initials is enough to elicit a scowl from many a Japanese mother. So how do foreign women cope in such an environment?]]></description>
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		<title>Fukushima and the right to responsible government</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/09/16/issues/fukushima-and-the-right-to-responsible-government/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=fukushima-and-the-right-to-responsible-government</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2013 14:45:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin P.A. Jones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[constitution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[courts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fukushima]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fukushima No. 1]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[radiation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Shinzo Abe]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A responsibility-shirking government is ultimately the people's problem &#8212; and responsibility &#8212; just as much as the nuclear disaster and all the nation's other problems are, argues Colin P.A. Jones.]]></description>
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		<title>Filmmaker revisits the children of Fukushima&#8217;s &#8216;Grey Zone&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/09/09/issues/filmmaker-revisits-the-children-of-fukushimas-grey-zone/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=filmmaker-revisits-the-children-of-fukushimas-grey-zone</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Sep 2013 13:55:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Louise George Kittaka</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[fukushima]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fukushima No. 1]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ian Thomas Ash]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Minamisoma]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ian Thomas Ash has won acclaim and awards at film festivals around the world for "A2-B-C," the second of a pair of documentaries about children living in towns a stone's throw from Fukushima No. 1.]]></description>
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		<title>Tin Man&#8217;s throne: the rise and fall of a Roppongi royal</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/09/02/issues/tin-mans-throne-the-rise-and-fall-of-a-roppongi-royal/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=tin-mans-throne-the-rise-and-fall-of-a-roppongi-royal</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Sep 2013 14:50:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dreux Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gilbert Otaigbe is the current owner of Black Horse bar and nightclub in Roppongi. At the height of his success in the mid-2000s, he owned at least seven bars, clubs and restaurants.]]></description>
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		<title>Kaizen and the art of human wa maintenance</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/08/26/issues/kaizen-and-the-art-of-human-wa-maintenance/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=kaizen-and-the-art-of-human-wa-maintenance</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Aug 2013 14:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kaizen here is organic, ubiquitous and attuned to the physical and psychological needs of human beings. At its best, this "human-scale kaizen" eliminates or eases many of the mundane uncertainties, annoyances and embarrassments of daily life.]]></description>
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		<title>The world&#8217;s a stage, but you don&#8217;t have to play along</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/08/19/issues/the-worlds-a-stage-but-you-dont-have-to-play-along/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-worlds-a-stage-but-you-dont-have-to-play-along</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Aug 2013 14:04:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicolas Gattig</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Boston bombing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[discrimination]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the night of April 18, three days after the Boston Marathon bombing, a side-drama to that story unfolded between three men as they criss-crossed the city, a performance staged partly in the theater of culture. Just before 11 p.m., Danny, a young Chinese man on a work visa in the U.S., was carjacked at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ainu fight for return of plundered ancestral remains</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/08/12/issues/ainu-fight-for-return-of-plundered-ancestral-remains/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=ainu-fight-for-return-of-plundered-ancestral-remains</link>
		<comments>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/08/12/issues/ainu-fight-for-return-of-plundered-ancestral-remains/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Aug 2013 14:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Scott</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ainu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[archaeology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[discrimination]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shigeru Kayano, one of the most well-known and respected Ainu figures of modern times, writes in his autobiography &#8220;Our Land Was a Forest&#8221; about the loathing he felt as a young man for the shamo (Japanese) researchers who used to visit his village and family home. &#8220;In those days I despised scholars of Ainu culture [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SOFA: an unequal treaty that trumps the Constitution?</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/08/05/issues/sofa-an-unequal-treaty-that-trumps-the-constitution/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=sofa-an-unequal-treaty-that-trumps-the-constitution</link>
		<comments>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/08/05/issues/sofa-an-unequal-treaty-that-trumps-the-constitution/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Aug 2013 14:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin P.A. Jones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[constitution]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[occupation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Okinawa]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The prime minister's dogged focus on amending the American-tainted Constitution might reflect an uncomfortable unspoken truth &#8212; that it may be easier to change the Constitution than revise another document of potentially greater importance: the Status of Forces Agreement between Japan and the United States, which governs the legal status of the U.S. military presence in Japan.]]></description>
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		<title>Prove you&#8217;re Japanese: when being bicultural can be a burden</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/07/29/issues/prove-youre-japanese-when-being-bicultural-can-be-a-burden/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=prove-youre-japanese-when-being-bicultural-can-be-a-burden</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jul 2013 14:45:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Louise George Kittaka</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[discrimination]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Japanese are Japanese and foreigners are foreigners, and never the twain shall meet? In many aspects of daily life in this country, there is one way for the Japanese and another for the rest of us. Like it or not, that's just how it is. At least foreigners know where we stand.]]></description>
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		<title>There is more to my son than the fact he&#8217;s a &#8216;half&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/07/29/issues/there-is-more-to-my-son-than-the-fact-hes-a-half/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=there-is-more-to-my-son-than-the-fact-hes-a-half</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jul 2013 14:45:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Surdick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For foreign residents, having a child in Japan can be a daunting prospect. Going to the hospital and trying to figure out what the doctor is saying in complex Japanese medical terms is just one of myriad trials.]]></description>
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		<title>Police stonewalling over death of U.S. teen in Shinjuku prolongs family&#8217;s ordeal</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/07/22/issues/police-stonewalling-over-death-of-u-s-teen-in-shinjuku-prolongs-familys-ordeal/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=police-stonewalling-over-death-of-u-s-teen-in-shinjuku-prolongs-familys-ordeal</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jul 2013 14:15:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Scott</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Kabuki-cho]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scott Kang]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The family of Scott Kang had hoped that the release the autopsy report would shed some light on the U.S. teenager's death in Shinjuku in 2010 and bring them nearer to obtaining closure. Instead, it has reopened old wounds and raised fresh questions about the original police investigation.]]></description>
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		<title>Trolls or media watchdogs?: Japan&#8217;s foreign-born defenders</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jul 2013 14:03:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stuart Braun</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have the foreign media got it in for Japan? Do they unduly focus on, and sensationalize, Fukushima radiation leaks, alleged racial intolerance and the self-aggrandizing policy pronouncements of the reborn Liberal Democratic Party?]]></description>
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		<title>Driven by regret over neighbor&#8217;s death, first-time filmmaker declares war on suicide</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/07/08/issues/driven-by-regret-over-neighbors-death-first-time-filmmaker-declares-war-on-suicide/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=driven-by-regret-over-neighbors-death-first-time-filmmaker-declares-war-on-suicide</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jul 2013 14:50:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Solomon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rene Duignan is passionate about life — so much so that he made an award-winning film about it. Yet Duignan, 42, is not a professional filmmaker; he&#8217;s an Irish economist working for the European Union delegation to Japan. The documentary, titled &#8220;Saving 10,000 — Winning a War on Suicide in Japan,&#8221; is a beautifully choreographed, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The LDP constitution, article by article: a preview of things to come?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jul 2013 15:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin P. A. Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is pushing for constitutional change. Yet he is playing the political huckster by proposing to first only fiddle with the amendment procedure in Article 96, lowering the threshold for the process to move forward from the approval of two-thirds of both houses of the Diet, as it currently stands, to a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Authors take polar-opposite tacks as they try to decipher Japanese women</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/06/25/issues/authors-take-polar-opposite-tacks-as-they-try-to-decipher-japanese-women/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=authors-take-polar-opposite-tacks-as-they-try-to-decipher-japanese-women</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jun 2013 15:12:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gianni Simone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s an all-too-familiar story: On the romantic front, foreign ladies living in Japan have it bad while the guys do unbelievably well. For every woman who complains about Japanese men&#8217;s aloofness and lack of communication skills, there is a man who boasts about all the local chicks he&#8217;s had. But is it really so? Apparently [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Yellow fever&#8217; and the fantasy of the Asian female</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/06/25/issues/yellow-fever-and-the-fantasy-of-the-asian-female/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=yellow-fever-and-the-fantasy-of-the-asian-female</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jun 2013 15:01:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicolas Gattig</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a dumb thing you should never do: watch the 007 caper &#8220;You Only Live Twice&#8221; with your feminist American girlfriend — a woman of color to boot. In a series renowned for its sexism, the Japan entry takes the biscuit. My date night was first upset as Bond is massaged in a bathhouse [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tweak the Constitution now, think later?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jun 2013 15:01:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin P.A. Jones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Article 9]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whether it happens or not depends heavily on the results of the upcoming House of Councilors elections, but Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has clearly announced his intention to make amending the Constitution a campaign issue. Although his Liberal Democratic Party issued a comprehensive amendment proposal on April 28, 2012 (the 60th anniversary of the end [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chatting about Japan with Snowden, the NSA whistle-blower</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/06/18/issues/chatting-about-japan-with-snowden-the-nsa-whistle-blower/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=chatting-about-japan-with-snowden-the-nsa-whistle-blower</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:06:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Edward Snowden, the fugitive former CIA employee and NSA contractor who leaked secrets about America&#8217;s spying operations, often hung out online with foreigners in Japan who shared his interests in anime, video games, martial arts, the stock market and the expat lifestyle. Snowden, who learned Japanese as a teenager, was a Japanophile who had longtime [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Democracy, interrupted: How local voices were silenced in Tokyo&#8217;s first referendum</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/06/18/issues/democracy-interrupted-how-local-voices-were-silenced-in-tokyos-first-referendum/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=democracy-interrupted-how-local-voices-were-silenced-in-tokyos-first-referendum</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:06:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Burgess</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kodaira]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Sunday, May 26, something quite remarkable happened in Kodaira city, western Tokyo: Over 50,000 citizens voted in Tokyo&#8217;s very first local referendum (jūmin tōhyō) on the issue of whether a 50-year-old plan to construct a road should be reviewed or not. Unfortunately, the ballot papers will never be opened — 90 days on, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan&#8217;s Nigerians see symbol of change in masquerade</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/06/11/issues/japans-nigerians-see-symbol-of-change-in-masquerade/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=japans-nigerians-see-symbol-of-change-in-masquerade</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2013 15:06:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dreux Richard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anyone wandering the back streets near Omiya Station at 7:20 a.m. on Sunday, June 2, might have passed a particular office building, unremarkable except for two African men standing on a 2nd floor balcony, rope in hand, lowering a car-sized Ugo (eagle) costume down to the parking lot. One of them was Tony Ikeotuonye, chairman [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hague Convention on child abduction may shape Japan&#8217;s family law  — or vice versa</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/06/11/issues/hague-convention-on-child-abduction-may-shape-japans-family-law-or-vice-versa/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=hague-convention-on-child-abduction-may-shape-japans-family-law-or-vice-versa</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2013 15:05:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin P. A. Jones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[family law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hague Convention]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Giant Hello Kitty-emblazoned kudos to Japan for finally signing the Hague Convention on International Child Abduction. Now comes the hard part: actually making it work. Mistakenly identified by some press accounts as an accomplishment of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Japan&#8217;s accession is probably more the fruit of prolonged slogging by anonymous public servants. In the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Okinawa bacteria&#8217; toxic legacy crosses continents, spans generations</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jun 2013 15:40:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon Mitchell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tu Du Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City houses one of Vietnam's busiest maternity clinics, but hidden in a quiet corner, far from the wards of proud new mothers, is a room stacked floor to ceiling with every parent's nightmare. ]]></description>
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		<title>As evidence of Agent Orange in Okinawa stacks up, U.S. sticks with blanket denial</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/06/04/issues/as-evidence-of-agent-orange-in-okinawa-stacks-up-u-s-sticks-with-blanket-denial/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=as-evidence-of-agent-orange-in-okinawa-stacks-up-u-s-sticks-with-blanket-denial</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jun 2013 15:25:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon Mitchell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In April 2011, these Community pages published the first accounts of sick U.S. veterans who believe their illnesses were caused by exposure to Agent Orange on Okinawa during the Vietnam War era. ]]></description>
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		<title>As Japan reeled from disaster, three men went cycling</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/05/28/issues/as-japan-reeled-from-disaster-three-men-went-cycling/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=as-japan-reeled-from-disaster-three-men-went-cycling</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 May 2013 15:04:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Scott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1977, British author and long-term Tokyo resident Alan Booth made a journey on foot from the northernmost point in Japan, Cape Soya, to Kyushu&#8217;s southernmost tip, Cape Sata. Booth&#8217;s account of that epic trek, &#8220;The Roads to Sata,&#8221; became one of the classic Japan travel books of the modern age, with its vivid but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Want more out of Japan but face doesn&#8217;t fit? Be TOFITR</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/05/28/issues/want-more-out-of-japan-but-face-doesnt-fit-be-tofitr/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=want-more-out-of-japan-but-face-doesnt-fit-be-tofitr</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 May 2013 15:02:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn Newman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently served as a &#8220;private sector representative&#8221; in a panel discussion before an audience of foreign graduate students at the University of Tokyo. Many of the students will soon be seeking employment in Japan; because I have spent 25 years living in or traveling to Japan, the last 10 or so running my own [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fear and incarceration, from Kampala to Nagoya</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 15:13:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Carr</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I was stopped by two men in a government-registered vehicle, blindfolded and dragged off the street. They took me away to a house in a place I did not know. I was forced into a room with blood all over the walls and floor, where two men lay. I couldn&#8217;t tell if they were dead [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ambivalent Japan turns on its &#8216;insular&#8217; youth</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/05/21/issues/ambivalent-japan-turns-on-its-insular-youth/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=ambivalent-japan-turns-on-its-insular-youth</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 15:12:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Burgess</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Japan's decision to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade negotiations shows that at least some in government have accepted the fact that "opening up" Japan is in the nation's best long-term interests.]]></description>
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		<title>Turks in Kansai fear Inose gaffe indicative of wider ignorance about culture</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/05/14/issues/inose-gaffe-is-indicative-of-wider-ignorance-about-culture-turks-in-kansai-fear/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=inose-gaffe-is-indicative-of-wider-ignorance-about-culture-turks-in-kansai-fear</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 15:06:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Johnston</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["Stupid", "shockingly provincial" and "a sign of how little Japanese people really understand that part of the world" were among the reactions of Turkish residents in Kansai to Tokyo Gov. Naoki Inose's comments about Turkey and the wider Muslim world.]]></description>
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		<title>Inose&#8217;s slurs anger, bemuse Turks in Tokyo but may boost Istanbul&#8217;s Olympic bid</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 15:06:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Mcneill</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Istanbul]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Naoki Inose]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tokyo 2020]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's prayer time at Tokyo's biggest mosque and the congregation is pondering God, community and Naoki Inose, the city's governor, who many here say has revealed himself to be, well, a bit of a bigot.]]></description>
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