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	<title>The Japan Times &#187; THE YEAR IN BOOKS</title>
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		<title>Seasonality, internal awareness</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Dec 2012 00:02:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Burleigh</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons: Nature, Literature and the Arts&#8221; (Columbia University Press) by Haruo Shirane. The whole seasonal consciousness of Japan, so meticulously considered and observed, is an intangible cultural tradition, though it has a certain physical embodiment in saijiki, the almanacs used by haiku poets, which explain all the subtleties [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Celebrating the female dragons</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Dec 2012 00:02:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kris Kosaka</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;All That I Am&#8221; (Harper) by Anna Funder blazes across pre-World War II Europe, illuminating the period when Hitler eliminated all national opposition in his prelude to the rest of the world. Funder imaginatively melds historical figures, painstaking research and creative fire to chronicle the desperate resistance against Nazi Germany&#8217;s encroaching domination. Riveting, centered by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alternative histories about JFK</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Dec 2012 00:01:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Schreiber</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The 50th anniversary of the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy next November is expected to see a flood of new works on that topic. Two alternative history novels have already appeared on this theme. In Stephen King&#8217;s &#8220;11/22/63: A Novel&#8221; (Scribner), Maine high school teacher Jake Epping finds a portal by which he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. essays, Japan&#8217;s Christians</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Dec 2012 00:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Mccarthy</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It may seem like cheating, but my first best book of 2012 is &#8220;The Best American Essays of 2012&#8243; (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), part of the Best American Series. I read it each year and am never disappointed. This year&#8217;s selection was made by David Brooks, a moderately conservative author, columnist and PBS commentator. The 24 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seeing the past, humanity afresh</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Dec 2012 00:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Cozy</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Atlas: The Archaeology of an Imaginary City&#8221; (Columbia University Press) by Dung Kai-cheung, translated by Anders Hansson and Bonnie S. McDougall. Lovers of maps, devotees of Borges and Calvino, those who understand that novels need not be first-this-happened-then-that-happened catalogs of events in the lives of characters to whom readers can relate, those who are happy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2012; The year in books</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Dec 2012 00:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Japan Times invited seven of its book reviewers to pick their favorite books published or made available in Japan in 2012, regardless of whether the book was reviewed in these pages. The selections range from books on history to art, to fiction and essays. These choices could just make for a suitable last-minute gift, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Four aspects of Japan&#8217;s history</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Dec 2012 00:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Hoffman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Oh, what happy people they must have been!&#8221; Thus Yukie Chiri (1903-22), reflecting on the pristine past of her people, the Ainu of southwestern Hokkaido. &#8220;Ainu Spirits Singing&#8221; (University of Hawaii Press) by Sarah Strong is an elegy to a lost time and an almost lost culture, seen largely through Chiri&#8217;s eyes. She died very [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Revisiting Asia&#8217;s past, present</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Dec 2012 00:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Kingston</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia&#8221; (Allen Lane) by Pankaj Mishra. This is the story of the Asian intellectual&#8217;s response to Western imperialism. It is an intelligent and rewarding read that crisscrosses time and space, helping readers better understand the lingering resentments and contemporary developments. The [...]]]></description>
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