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		<title>China reluctant to accept Japan&#8217;s support over toxic smog: minister</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Mar 2013 16:09:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[pollution]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[China appears reluctant to accept Japan's offer of technical assistance to help its neighbor cope with a deepening air pollution problem.]]></description>
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		<title>Japanese women strive to empower themselves</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Mar 2013 16:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomoko Otake</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to gender equality, Japan has never failed to disappoint.]]></description>
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		<title>Trying to get things done in the wake of 3/11</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Mar 2013 15:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>C.W. Nicol</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Great East Japan Earthquake]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Two years have passed since the magnitude-9 Great East Japan Earthquake of March 11, 2011, the devastating tsunami it triggered and the disgraceful and deadly fiasco at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant that followed.]]></description>
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		<title>Making life easier for working moms</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Mar 2013 15:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomoko Otake</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Yukari Horie, 30, is managing director of Arrow Arrow, a Tokyo-based NPO that offers consulting to companies with female workers who are in the later stages of their pregnancy or who have just become moms and are wondering how to adjust their work styles to accommodate their life needs. Horie&#8217;s group, set up in 2010, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Battling the postpartum blues</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Mar 2013 15:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomoko Otake</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Maco Yoshioka is the founder of Madre Bonita, a nonprofit group that offers postpartum fitness programs for women using elastic exercise balls. Yoshioka, 40, who studied sports physiology at the University of Tokyo, says she became aware of physical and mental difficulties for new mothers when, in the late 1990s, she herself became a single [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A visit to Usa, the Japanese city that knows how to win</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Mar 2013 15:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomoko Otake</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Futaba no Sato]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japanese cuisine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oita Prefecture]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is the time of the year when many people get nervous about winning and losing. Students are cramming hard to pass entrance exams to get into the high schools and colleges of their dreams. ]]></description>
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		<title>Documenting the gender imbalance</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Mar 2013 15:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomoko Otake</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Yu Negoro, 40, is a documentary filmmaker who has delved deep into the issues of gender and sexuality in Japanese society. Her first project was a series of three short films dealing with women suffering from eating disorders, a condition Neguro suffered in her 20s. Attributing her problems partly to conflicts with her mother, Neguro [...]]]></description>
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		<title>High radiation in fish caught off No. 1 plant</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 15:55:25 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[cesium]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fish]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A greenling caught in the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant's harbor is found to contain a level of radioactive cesium 5,100 times above the government-set safety limit.]]></description>
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		<title>Tea and cakes, the British way</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2013/03/01/food/tea-and-cakes-the-british-way/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=tea-and-cakes-the-british-way</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 15:02:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robbie Swinnerton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[bakery]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[cafe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rose Bakery]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA["I am not very fond of sugar and sweet things, and yet I became a pastry chef." The story of British pâtissière Rose Carrarini, whose quote adorns the wall in the growing number of cafe-bakeries that bear her name, is an eye-opener on many levels.]]></description>
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		<title>Modern Japanese with a wry twist</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 15:02:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robbie Swinnerton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Den]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japanese cuisine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kaiseki]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Japanese cuisine at its loftiest is elegant and profound. It can be taut as a tea ceremony or exquisite as a furisode kimono. But inventive, irreverent? Only at Den.]]></description>
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