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		<title>The Towada Art Center expands its landscape</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2013 14:25:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stuart Munro</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[multimedia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Towada Oirase Art Festival]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ever since the Towada Art Center opened five years ago, the city in Aomori Prefecture has seen its prospects dramatically alter. Not only by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, but by the subsequent devastation of neighboring areas, all of which compounded the dwindling prosperity of Towada. It was detached from nearby Misawa [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Turner from the Tate:  The Makings of a Master&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2013 14:23:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jordan Sievers</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[J.M. Turner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[painting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[British artist Joseph Mallord William Turner&#8217;s experimental style allowed him to become one of the most prominent artistic figures of 19th-century Romanticism. This exhibition reflects the diversity of Turner&#8217;s talents and offers a comprehensive overview of some of his most famous paintings. Special attention is also given to rarely displayed works, some of which are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kohfukuji temple: under divine protection</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2013 14:23:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>C.B. Liddell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Butto]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[national treasure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tokyo University Art Museum]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Tucked away behind the main museums in Ueno, the Tokyo University Art Museum may not be on most people&#8217;s radar, but it is definitely one of the city&#8217;s top museums in terms of curatorial quality. Whenever I go there, I am always delighted by the effort that has been taken to arrange exhibits and to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Kyoto from Inside and Outside: Scenes on Panels  and Folding Screens&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2013 14:22:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jordan Sievers</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Kyoto Imperial Palace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nihonga]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nijo Castle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[painting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ryoanji Temple]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tokyo National Museum]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Kyoto, the old capital of Japan, has harbored a rich traditional culture that has remained strong for generations. Focusing on large-scale works that present depictions of town life as well as seasonal views of the city, this exhibition reveals a detailed glimpse into the aesthetics of Kyoto culture. Three locations of particular symbolic interest are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Masterpieces from the Collection of Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum, Tokyo 2013&#8242;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2013 14:21:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jordan Sievers</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Impressionists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[painting]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[During the 19th and 20th centuries, Paris gained a reputation as a cultural hub of Europe. It attracted artists such as Auguste Renoir, Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne, Odilon Redon, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec and Felix Vallotton — all of whom inspired and influenced each other&#8217;s work. It was also an era of change, when such artists sought [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Takamikura and Michodai: Chrysanthemum and Nippon&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2013 14:20:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jordan Sievers</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chrysanthemum throne]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[michodai]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[takamikura]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zohiko Urushi Museum]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In celebration of the Emperor&#8217;s 80th birthday and the 25th anniversary of his reign, replicas of the takamikura (Chrysanthemum throne) and michodai (a curtained platform) are being displayed at Kyoto&#8217;s Zohiki Urushi Museum. Created between 1913-1915, these models were made around the same time as the originals, which are now housed in Shishin-den Hall at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>True tradition would be preferable to an &#8216;Idolympics&#8217; in 2020</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2013 14:14:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian Martin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2020 Olympics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[opening ceremony]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ryuichi Sakamoto]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ten-thousand Kumamons doing an elaborate Busby Berkeley-style dance routine to Kyu Sakamoto&#8217;s international 1963 hit &#8220;Sukiyaki&#8221;? A 100-meter Hatsune Miku towering over the stadium while 80,000 spectators crane their necks for a glimpse up her skirt? Newly elected Prime Minister Pamyu Pamyu speeding up a ramp and jumping into the stadium on Kaneda&#8217;s bike from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Melt-Banana: Being &#8216;stupid&#8217; isn&#8217;t so bad when it comes to touring</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2013 14:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian Martin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Agata]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fetch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Melt-Banana]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[noise]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yako]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;We&#8217;d be playing someone&#8217;s basement in America &#8230;&#8221; &#8220;And we only had five or six people there &#8230;&#8221; &#8220;We had some nights where the audience was zero.&#8221; As Yasuko &#8220;Yako&#8221; Onuki and Ichiro Agata prepare for a gruelling, 29-city North American tour to promote new album &#8220;Fetch,&#8221; they reminisce about their early experiences playing abroad [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nite Jewel&#8217;s new best-of album, &#8216;Gems,&#8217; celebrates a diverse catalog</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2013 13:56:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick ST. Michel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Big Love]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nite Jewel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ramona Gonzalez]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A best-of album is not what you&#8217;d expect from an artist who has been around for five years. But that&#8217;s exactly what Ramona Gonzalez, who records under the moniker Nite Jewel, released in advance of her upcoming Japanese tour. &#8220;I sat down and thought about which songs fully represent all aspects of my career and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Arab Idol&#8217; winner hailed at his debut in Europe</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/09/30/entertainment-news/arab-idol-winner-hailed-at-his-debut-in-europe/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=arab-idol-winner-hailed-at-his-debut-in-europe</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Sep 2013 13:41:53 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[contests]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Palestinians]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Mohammed Assaf, the winner of the &#8220;Arab Idol&#8221; talent competition held in Beirut in June, brought his thumping Palestinian beats out of the Middle East for the first time Sunday in his electrifying European debut. Assaf, 24, from the Gaza Strip, became a national hero and a rare symbol of Palestinian unity when he won [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Update on the Watazus of 14 children; special &#8216;double Asanos&#8217; drama; CM of the week: Kinoko no Yama</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/09/29/tv/update-on-the-watazus-of-14-children-special-double-asanos-drama-cm-of-the-week-kinoko-no-yama/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=update-on-the-watazus-of-14-children-special-double-asanos-drama-cm-of-the-week-kinoko-no-yama</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Sep 2013 15:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The inter-season TV schedule always features specials dedicated to police videos, eating contests and large, impoverished families. In this third category we have &#8220;Binbo ni Makeru na&#8221; (&#8220;We Won&#8217;t be Beaten by Poverty&#8221;; TV Tokyo, Mon., 6:30 p.m.), the 11th semiannual installment in the saga of the Watazus of Shimane Prefecture, first introduced in 2008. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New survey of art fosters discussion</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Sep 2013 14:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Cooke</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[art surveys]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Contemporary art]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It goes without saying that giving a book the title &#8220;100 Works of Art That Will Define Our Age&#8221; is a hostage to fortune. We lack the necessary perspective when it comes to judging what it is about our time that is most important or representative culture-wise, for which reason the work of drawing up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Biography of Masaoka Shiki excels in the expanded details</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Sep 2013 14:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Burleigh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[biographies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[haiku]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Masaoka Shiki]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Haiku, the short Japanese poem now proliferating overseas, scarcely needs an introduction anymore. Its three great pillars, widely read even in translation, are the poets Matsuo Basho (1641-1694), its first creator, then Yosa Buson (1716-1784) and Kobayashi Issa (1763-1828), who renewed it. THE WINTER SUN SHINES IN: A Life of Masaoka Shiki, by Donald Keene. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two studies explore the Tudors, Scotland&#8217;s crown and a nonchalant union</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Sep 2013 14:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Giles Tremlett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[English history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[histories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scottish history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tudors]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The unhurried fashion in which James VI of Scotland ambled south toward London to claim his crown in 1603, stopping off to hunt along the way and arriving six weeks after Elizabeth I died, suggests there was nothing terribly dramatic about the event. The man who would be James I of England, the first Stuart [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ailing New York City Opera fears bankruptcy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Sep 2013 12:35:42 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[dance]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York City Opera could be sounding its final note this weekend &#8212; at least for a while. The 70-year-old company says it plans to file for bankruptcy and scrap the bulk of its 2013-2014 season unless it somehow manages to reach its fund-raising goal, which it admitted is not likely. &#8220;The board has voted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;There will be people who walk out of the cinema, I&#8217;m sure&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Sep 2013 12:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Mclean</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Filth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James McAvoy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In a drab building in central Scotland, one afternoon in the armpit of winter, an actor who looks a lot like nice-guy James McAvoy is persuading a room full of blokes to — I&#8217;m paraphrasing here — Xerox their cocks. &#8220;Come on!&#8221; he roars, all pouchy of eyes, gingery of beard and &#8217;80s of suit. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Suede plays it anew with &#8216;Bloodsports&#8217; album</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Sep 2013 14:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shaun Curran</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bloodsports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brett Anderson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Britpop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Suede]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ten years ago, Suede was in the process of fizzling out to a backdrop of apathy. For a band whose initial brilliance inadvertently help kick-start Britpop in the 1990s, it all seemed unedifying.]]></description>
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		<title>Actor-director Okuda revisits wreckage of 3/11</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Sep 2013 13:55:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Schilling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Eiji Okuda]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sakura Ando]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tasukui Emoto]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Actors see how directors do their job — and not a few imagine they can do it better. But the number of Japanese actors who move successfully into the director’s chair is small.]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Jigoku de Naze Warui (Why Don&#8217;t You Play in Hell?)&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Sep 2013 13:54:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Schilling</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Even great directors can make turkeys, sometimes without much obvious change in their style or obsessions. ]]></description>
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		<title>Floats make Oirase fest a treat</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Sep 2013 13:53:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Magdalena Osumi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Oirase Shimoda Festival]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[parades]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The town of Oirase, Aomori Prefecture, seems like a good place for homesick Americans to settle down. It&#8217;s known for its own Statue of Liberty — bigger than the one that sits at the edge of Tokyo Bay. This weekend, the town will also host one of the northern region&#8217;s most popular attractions — the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Trashed&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Sep 2013 13:53:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaori Shoji</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s hard to associate the uber-groomed, aquiline-profiled Jeremy Irons (“Damage,” “Die Hard: With a Vengeance”) with garbage. But in the documentary “Trashed,” which focuses on the problem of global waste, Irons wallows in it.]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Heaven&#8217;s Gate&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Sep 2013 13:52:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Giovanni Fazio</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The 1970s are fondly remembered now as an insanely creative and risk-taking era for American cinema, and there&#8217;s one infamous film that is generally blamed for bringing it all to a crashing halt: &#8220;Heaven&#8217;s Gate.&#8221; Director Michael Cimino had cleaned up at the Oscars with &#8220;The Deer Hunter,&#8221; and seemed like a safe bet to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Warm Bodies&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Sep 2013 13:51:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Giovanni Fazio</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Most zombie movies look at the undead and decide they&#8217;re a problem best solved with a bullet to the head. But director Jonathan Levine gives us &#8220;Warm Bodies,&#8221; which suggests that when World War Z comes, all you&#8217;ll need is love. R. (Nicholas Hoult) is a sulky 20-something who looks rather like a skater except [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;The Frozen Ground&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Sep 2013 13:50:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaori Shoji</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Based on a serial-killer spree in Anchorage, Alaska, in the late 1970s/early &#8217;80s, &#8220;The Frozen Ground&#8221; draws solid performances from an A-list cast but somehow falls short on terror. Writer/director Scott Walker is careful to maintain a dark, understated mood that blends in quite effectively with the bleak, wintry setting, but the story seems to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oktoberfest to start a few days early in Odaiba</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Sep 2013 13:05:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jordan Sievers</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Odaiba Oktoberfest]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Oktoberfest comes a few days early in Odaiba this weekend. Modeled after the German celebration, patrons can drink a variety of imported beer and some local favorites in proper German-styled mugs. Sausages and sauerkraut will also be served. Munich-based folk band Almpower will provide the soundtrack for the day. Odaiba Oktoberfest takes place at Symbol [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Indian festival to tout culture and tradition</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Sep 2013 13:05:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jordan Sievers</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[cultural festival]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indian culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Namaste Indian Festival]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yoyogi Park]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In today&#8217;s world, cultural exchange has become increasingly important &#8212; and fun. The nation&#8217;s biggest Indian festival will do its part for cultural exchange as it marks its 21st edition this weekend. The event is sponsored by the Society to Promote India-Japan Cultural Relations. Visitors will be able to immerse themselves in many facets of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Kokuriko-zaka Kara (From Up on Poppy Hill)&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Sep 2013 13:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Schilling</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Director: Goro Miyazaki Language: Japanese (dubbed/subtitled in English) Studio Ghibli has released the U.K. Blu-ray and DVD of Goro Miyazaki&#8217;s 2011 animation &#8220;Kokuriko-zaka Kara (From Up on Poppy Hill).&#8221; Co-scripted by Hayao Miyazaki, the film is a nostalgic period piece about the campaign by Yokohama college students, circa 1963, to save their ramshackle clubhouse from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iron Man 3</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Sep 2013 13:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Giovanni Fazio</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Director: Shane Black Language: English I&#8217;ll take my Robert Downey Jr. however it&#8217;s served, and if it comes in a can, well, so be it. This third installment in what seems like one of a gazillion Marvel franchises doubles down on everything: This should really be called &#8220;Iron Men.&#8221; Plenty of metal on metal ass-kickings, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poetry event to tap into global discussion</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Sep 2013 13:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kris Kosaka</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[000 Poets for Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[100]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poetry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Think global; act local. Kyoto residents have a chance this weekend to act on this aphorism, joining a global cultural event without even leaving Japan. The Japan International Poetry Society (JIPS), a group of bilingual poets founded in 2009, will host a poetry reading and discussion on Sept. 28. The event, titled &#8220;Transformation of Self, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Farinelli (Castrato)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Sep 2013 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaori Shoji</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Director: Gerard Corbiau Language: French, Italian (subtitled in Japanese) A golden oldie from 1994, &#8220;Farinelli&#8221; traces the life and times of 18th-century Italian singer Carlo Broschi (Stefano Dionisi), who was castrated in childhood to preserve his angelic voice and went on to a brilliant career. Carlo&#8217;s complex relationship with his less talented older brother Ricardo [...]]]></description>
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