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		<title>&#8216;A person and a possession&#8217;: Japanese women in history</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Mar 2013 15:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kris Kosaka</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SELLING WOMEN: Prostitution, Markets and the Household in Early Modern Japan, by Amy Stanley. University of California Press, 2012, 282 pp., &#036;49.95 (hardcover) In the vast cultural landscape, Japan fascinates the mainstream with manga and anime, the martial arts, Zen and kimono. Of course, Japan equally attracts with its underground culture. Since its 19th-century erotic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A newspaper editor&#8217;s year to master Chopin&#8217;s First Ballade</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Mar 2013 15:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Iain Burnside</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PLAY IT AGAIN, by Alan Rusbridger. Jonathan Cape, 2013, 416 pp., £18.99 (hardcover) In middle age, some men take up marathon running. Others climb the Matterhorn or buy a red sports car. Alan Rusbridger, editor-in-chief of the Guardian, decides to master Frédéric Chopin&#8217;s First Ballade, Op. 23. Following an epiphany during a French summer course, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sensual poetry on love, marriage</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Mar 2013 15:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Burleigh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ONNA NI, by Shuntaro Tanikawa, with etchings by Yoko Sano, translated by William I. Elliott and Kazuo Kawamura. Shueisha, 2012, 80 pp., &#165;1,470 (paperback) Shuntaro Tanikawa, born in 1931, is one of the most acclaimed poets in Japan &#8212; well known not only from the many volumes of poetry he has published but also for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A native son&#8217;s grim account of hard-luck lives</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Mar 2013 15:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Burke</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[American cities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Detroit]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[DETROIT: An American Autopsy, by Charlie LeDuff. Penguin Press, 2013, 286 pp., $27.95 (hardcover) Charlie LeDuff&#8217;s &#8220;Detroit: An American Autopsy&#8221; is a hard-eyed look at some of the recent villains and victims of a city battered for half a century by political corruption, racial strife and industrial collapse. LeDuff is a former New York Times reporter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chinese ink new future for 1,000-year tradition</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 15:15:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>No Author</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[painting]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Classical Chinese painters were masters of rocky mountains, but Liu Dan, one of a group of contemporary artists putting a new twist on 1,000-year-old tradition, sticks with just the rock. Liu&#8217;s minutely detailed &#8220;Scholar&#8217;s Rock&#8221; — a large-scale, almost photographic exploration of a single gnarly, eroded stone — at once pays homage to the classical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inequity of slavery reaps vengeance in &#8216;Django&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 15:03:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Hadley-Garcia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christoph Waltz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jamie Foxx]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quentin Tarantino, whose film plots are often fueled by a mania for vengeance, has struck again with the Oscar-winning “Django Unchained.” ]]></description>
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		<title>Fifth Okinawa fest celebrates community films</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 15:03:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Schilling</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kazuyoshi Okuyama]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since its start in 2009, the Okinawa International Movie Festival has been more than its name implies. It has the usual competition sections: one called Laugh for comedies and another called Peace for dramas, though not all the films fit neatly into these two bins. But it has also been a promo event for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Django Unchained&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 15:02:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Giovanni Fazio</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Way back in 1992 there appeared a hot new indie flick called &#8220;Reservoir Dogs&#8221; by a then-unknown video-rental clerk turned director called Quentin Tarantino. This newcomer&#8217;s knack was to take a classic genre movie &#8212; the heist flick &#8212; and pump it full of gabby and intensely quotable dialogue, multiple cinephile references, a hipper-than-hip soundtrack [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Su-chan Mai-chan Sawako-san&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 15:02:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Schilling</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ko Shibasaki]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Osamu Minorikawa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shinonu Terajima]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yonkoma manga, or four-cell gag comics, are popular here with both sexes and all ages, but they account for relatively few of the many hit live-action films made from manga. For one thing, it&#8217;s not so easy to string all those gags together into a three-act story. Doable, yes. Done well? Not so often. Based [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Flight&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 15:02:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaori Shoji</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Be prepared for the most terrifying flying experience you&#8217;re ever likely to encounter, expertly created by Robert Zemeckis (&#8220;Forrest Gump,&#8221; &#8220;Back to the Future&#8221;) and engineered on-screen by Denzel Washington. &#8220;Flight&#8221; may put you off air travel for a while, but on the other hand if the plane you&#8217;re aboard should suddenly turn upside down, [...]]]></description>
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