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	<title>The Japan Times &#187; WHO&#8217;S WHO</title>
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		<title>Peruvian offers lifeline for Spanish-speaking expats</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jul 2013 14:10:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mami Maruko</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sonia Romero de Hara]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sonia Romero de Hara was surprised years ago when she was woken by a phone call late at night from a Peruvian-Japanese friend living in Fussa, western Tokyo. The friend said that police officers had visited her after the local police station received a complaint from a neighbor that music being played at her house [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finnish diplomat pushes child-rearing for dads</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:02:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mami Maruko</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Finland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ikumen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mikko Koivumaa]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For Finnish diplomat Mikko Koivumaa, being an ikumen (men who take an active role in ikuji, or child rearing) comes naturally. Hailing from a country known to have a high level of gender equality, Koivumaa says ikumen is standard practice in Finland. &#8220;In Finland, there&#8217;s a social welfare policy that enables that. Also men work [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Czech promoter sings way to cultural identity</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 15:06:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mami Maruko</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Czech Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eva Miklas Takamine]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For singer Eva Miklas Takamine, who also has been head of the Czech Center in Tokyo since March, singing both Czech and Japanese songs is a way of expressing her identity. The Czech-born Miklas, 52, who began her career as a professional singer only three years ago, says she feels she doesn&#8217;t have a clear [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Journey to Kenya turns writer&#8217;s life on its head, spurs Africa fascination</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2013 15:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mami Maruko</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michio Hiraiwa]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was a single visit to Kenya in 1972 that completely changed Michio Hiraiwa&#8217;s philosophy on life. He fell in love with the country, and visited there 150 times over the past 40 years. Once a workaholic, Hiraiwa says he now leads a stress-free and relaxed life, visiting Kenya and Tanzania four times a year [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Canadian has English-language rakugo dream</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2013 12:12:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mami Maruko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Katsura Sunshine wants to spread the world of rakugo (traditional comic storytelling) to people all over the world, including his home country Canada, by delivering English-translated versions. The 42-year-old Slovenian-Canadian, who was given the stage name from his master, Katsura Bunshi, after three years of apprenticeship, has already performed in Canada twice since last year. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Online English studies benefit Japanese, Filipinos</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2013 00:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mami Maruko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Mohammad Moin tries to realize what he calls &#8220;intellectual fair trade&#8221; through his operation of an online English conversation school for Japanese — all taught by Filipino teachers. The inexpensive English lessons are offered to Japanese students via Skype, while at the same time giving employment opportunities to Filipinos — most of whom have graduated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Expert laments Japan&#8217;s limits on craft beer culture</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2012 00:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mami Maruko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Ry Beville&#8217;s love of craft beer has developed into an occupation in which he publishes Japan&#8217;s only bilingual craft beer magazine. With the quarterly Japan Beer Times launched in 2010, Beville, 37, from Richmond, Virginia, says he wants to help spread the microbrewing culture in Japan, where craft beer is still not widely recognized by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Violin maker brings traditions of Italian masters to Tokyo</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2012 00:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Solomon</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Born in Nebraska, Louis Caporale started playing the violin at the age of 4. By 14 he was building violins. At 18, he was the youngest student enrolled at the Chicago School of Violin Making. In time, he became a respected maker as well as teacher of the craft, and an expert appraiser/dealer of modern [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hotelier sees disaster bring out best in Japanese</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2012 00:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mami Maruko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[As a veteran of the tourism and hotel industries in Japan for more than two decades, Tony Virili says he will &#8220;never forget&#8221; what took place at one of his firm&#8217;s franchise hotels in Sendai on March 11, 2011. The 60-year-old Italian-Australian calls last year&#8217;s Great East Japan Earthquake one of the two striking moments [...]]]></description>
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		<title>American photojournalist combines traditional with modern in daily life</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2012 00:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mami Maruko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Everett Brown&#8217;s lifestyle is a reflection of his philosophy on life. The American photojournalist, who has lived in Japan for 24 years, says that the Japanese people should re-create their traditions by fusing classical ideas with modern technologies or ideas to lead happy, comfortable lives. &#8220;So many Japanese people are thinking just about the future, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scholar urges fresh look at rich Ainu heritage</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2012 00:02:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mami Maruko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Shunwa Honda, a renowned scholar of indigenous ethnic groups, emphasizes that the Japanese people need to create a stage for the nation&#8217;s indigenous Ainu, who &#8220;still suffer from not having their voices heard properly in society.&#8221; Though he looks Caucasian and uses the pen name &#8220;Henry Stewart,&#8221; Honda identifies himself as Japanese. He has lived [...]]]></description>
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		<title>British drama coach Gavin Bantock at top of his game; casts take a bow</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2012 00:01:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edan Corkill</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[If drama were a sport, then the name Gavin Bantock would probably be known throughout Japan. Transposed into the baseball universe, for example, Bantock might occupy a position similar to that of Fumiya Tsuta, who through the 1970s and 1980s led the students of Ikeda High School in Tokushima Prefecture to nationally televised glory in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Olympus fiasco was &#8216;lost opportunity&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 00:01:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mami Maruko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Waku Miller, a resident of Tokyo for over 30 years and a veteran translator who recently served as a spokesman for Michael C. Woodford &#8212; former president and CEO of Olympus Corp. &#8212; said he found it odd how indifferent major Japanese shareholders were even after a massive loss coverup by the camera and medical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Texan&#8217;s magic transforms verandas</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 00:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mami Maruko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[When you step out onto the veranda of Theodore Jennings&#8217; penthouse apartment in Tokyo&#8217;s Shinjuku district, it almost feels like you&#8217;re on vacation in some other location &#8212; be it New York or some European resort. &#8220;A lot of people tell me that. They say this doesn&#8217;t feel like Japan,&#8221; said the 36-year-old Texas native [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Polish envoy comes to terms with 3/11 via noh</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 00:01:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mami Maruko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Jadwiga Rodowicz-Czechowska, Poland&#8217;s ambassador to Japan, says she was utterly heartbroken when she witnessed the catastrophe caused by the earthquake and tsunami that hit Tohoku last March. &#8220;I couldn&#8217;t stand being witness to this tragedy. I felt at the time (I was) not only a Polish citizen and ambassador, but kind of being a part [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Culture ensnares Czech Japanophile</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:02:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mami Maruko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Petr Holy, who over the past two decades has spent a considerable amount of his time learning the Japanese language and culture, is now in return trying to spread the culture of his home country, the Czech Republic, throughout Japan. As director of the Czech Center at the Czech Embassy in Tokyo for the past [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Indian doctor finds success in Japan</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 00:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomoko Otake</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Ruby Pawankar stumbled across Japan in 1988, when as a young physician in Pune, western India, she accompanied her Indian husband here to curate an exhibition held as part of the Festival of India in Japan. Twenty-two years later as a professor in allergy at Nippon Medical School in Tokyo, the Kerala native has her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paper artist Gannon cut his own niche</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 00:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kris Kosaka</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Patrick Gannon admits he loves puzzles. As a literature major and aspiring writer in university, he delighted in deconstructing ideas and consciously pulling together disparate pieces to make a whole. Twenty years later, as a &#8220;cut paper&#8221; artist in Japan, Gannon, 40, employs the same intellectual techniques, albeit with a different artistic medium. Cut paper [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jose Alvares finds Portugal-Japan links</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 00:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mami Maruko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Jose Alvares has tried to &#8220;reconnect&#8221; the Portuguese and Japanese cultures over the last 43 years he has spent in Japan. The veteran researcher of Portuguese culture and history says it&#8217;s difficult to explain why he chose to live in Japan, but he was intrigued by the &#8220;mystery&#8221; of this country. Although he has been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hiroshima-area family roots inspire Canadian film director</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 00:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mami Maruko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[When Linda Ohama, a third-generation Japanese-Canadian, heard the news about the earthquake and tsunami that hit the Tohoku region on March 11, she says she was &#8220;very shocked&#8221; and felt a strong urge to do something for the people there &#8212; especially the children. Ohama immediately gathered leaders of the Japanese-Canadian community in Vancouver and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Greenthumb plants &#8216;kolonihave&#8217; seed</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 00:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mami Maruko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Jens Jensen makes almost anything he needs for his weekend life from scratch, from a doorknob to a window frame to a small wooden hut. Such a do-it-yourself lifestyle is fairly common in his home country, Denmark, where people try to make things that last for a long time, he says. Jensen, 34, who works [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Swede on mission to help Japan seniors</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 00:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mami Maruko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Gustav Strandell believes that if there is something good about his home country, Sweden, that he can bring to Japan, it&#8217;s the concept and some of the technical skills of its social welfare system developed over its 100-year-plus history as an aging society. Born in the small town of Tyreso, near Stockholm, Strandell has over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Helping Brazilian kids master local life</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 00:02:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mami Maruko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Tetsuyoshi Kodama, a second-generation Japanese-Brazilian, became the first foreign national to pass the taxi driver test in Shizuoka Prefecture in 1991. After driving around the city of Hamamatsu for about four years, he took on other jobs, including at a temporary employment agency and as a part-time Portuguese-Japanese interpreter at a local police station. Today, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Youth said to need voice, opinions</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 00:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mami Maruko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Lena Lindahl has for the past two decades produced environment-related events in Japan in an effort to apply her home country Sweden&#8217;s notion of sustainable society here. And she believes the key is education to encourage children to develop and express opinions about issues that concern their own future. Fluent in Swedish, English and Japanese, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Travel writer gets intimate with Japan</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 00:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mami Maruko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Freelance travel writer Beth Reiber knows Tokyo inside out &#8212; maybe much more than most Tokyoites. Reiber, who lives in Lawrence, Kansas, wrote the Tokyo version of the Frommer&#8217;s guidebooks &#8212; one of the best-selling series of guide books published in the United States &#8212; and has updated it for more than 20 years. &#8220;I&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poet draws on senses to give words life</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 00:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mami Maruko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[American poet Arthur Binard is alert to the world around him. His interests range from trees and insects to bicycles, kotatsu (heater tables) and nuclear energy. Binard writes poems in Japanese &#8212; which is not his mother tongue &#8212; as well as in English, translates poems from Japanese into English, and even writes haiku and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Polyglot comfortable between cultures</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 00:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mami Maruko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Alessandro Gerevini, an Italian writer and translator who has lived and worked in Japan for 16 years, believes that Japanese and Italian cultures have a lot in common. Gerevini notes that, for example, the idea of family and the unique culture of food are important in both countries. Also, the notion of humbleness exists in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Classics scholar seeks to repay debt</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 00:01:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mami Maruko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[When the earthquake and tsunami hit the northeast on March 11, Robert Campbell, an Irish-American scholar of Edo Period to early Meiji Era literature, was in Tokyo. Not having ever been to the most severely affected areas of Tohoku, he said the whole picture of the disruption, both physical and geographical, was something he initially [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Juggler of two professions in Japan</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 00:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mami Maruko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;My No. 1 hobby even now is still &#8216;learning,&#8217; &#8221; says Peter Frankl, 58, who has been juggling two professions for over 30 years. Speaking with his eyes lit up like a little boy, the mathematician and street juggler says that through learning, he feels his world is expanding. &#8220;It&#8217;s such a nice experience that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Indian works to serve expat enclave</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2011 00:01:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mami Maruko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Once you get out of Nishi-Kasai Station on the Tozai subway line, it&#8217;s likely that you will bump into at least half a dozen Indians in the first five minutes on the street. Nishi-Kasai in Edogawa Ward is known as &#8220;Little India,&#8221; home to more than 2,000 Indian residents, or about 10 percent of the [...]]]></description>
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