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		<title>Producer gets deep inside the otaku heart</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Sep 2013 14:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judit Kawaguchi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Masaaki Katabami is a content producer working in Tokyo. Besides producing manga and mascot design for clients, Katabami publishes Burgeon, a biannual free manga magazine aimed at a female otaku (geek) readership. Available at Tokyo&#8217;s Comiket (Comic Market fair), the magazine is in its sixth year. In 2012, Katabami wrote two books on two of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ballet prodigy gets a big lift from mom</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Sep 2013 14:03:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaori Shoji</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Sixteen-year old ballerina Miko Fogarty may be an American teen prodigy, but despite hailing from that land steeped in stardom culture, she seems to have none of the usual celebrity trappings — or to be particularly interested in them. When we met recently on a steaming August afternoon in Tokyo, she had on a well-laundered [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Miko Fogarty tells what it takes to be a teenage dance star</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Sep 2013 14:02:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaori Shoji</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Unlike the stereotype of your average American teen, Miko Fogarty (16) is not talkative or exuberant. In this way she seems somewhat shy and reserved, almost as if she leans toward the Japanese part of her lineage despite being brought up in the United States. Or perhaps she&#8217;s just sure of herself as a ballerina [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Naoto Kan speaks out</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Aug 2013 14:30:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edan Corkill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Naoto Kan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Naoto Kan took his first steps in the world of politics around 40 years ago as a pugnacious citizen-activist, admonishing those with power as only those without it can. Though he likes to say he&#8217;s the same man now, of course there&#8217;s an irony in that. After all, in the intervening years he acquired about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cautionary tales from one not afraid to risk all</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Aug 2013 14:15:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomoko Otake</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Toyohiro Akiyama]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In December 1990, journalist Toyohiro Akiyama made headlines the world over when he blasted off aboard a Soviet rocket to become the very first &#8220;space correspondent&#8221; in history. The Soyuz capsule with the 47-year-old Tokyo Broadcasting System reporter strapped inside later docked with the Mir space station as part of an unprecedented &#036;10 million (&#165;1.5 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ginza merchant has essence of Edo cool</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jul 2013 14:01:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judit Kawaguchi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Masayuki Kazama, 51, is the owner of StockPlus, a mailbox-rental and parcel-forwarding service located in Tokyo&#8217;s Ginza district, just opposite the Kabukiza theater. Printing business cards, pamphlets, posters and seasonal greeting cards for nearby mom-and-pop shops, restaurants and hostess clubs, Kazama and his staff are known in the neighborhood for a speedy service. Kazama also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From Hollywood to Hirohito</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jul 2013 14:30:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edan Corkill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Emperor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yoko Narahashi]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From &#8220;Empire of the Sun&#8221; to &#8220;The Last Samurai,&#8221; and from &#8220;Memoirs of a Geisha&#8221; to &#8220;Babel&#8221; &#8212; when Hollywood film directors have turned their cameras to the Land of the Rising Sun, there is one person they have insisted on having by their side: Yoko Narahashi, a casting agent, producer, sometimes director and, in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disaster-relief volunteer networks are essential</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2013/06/26/people/disaster-relief-volunteer-networks-are-essential/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=disaster-relief-volunteer-networks-are-essential</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jun 2013 15:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eriko Arita</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Takashi Yamamoto, 42, president of Peace Boat Disaster Relief Volunteer Center, is Japan&#8217;s leading expert on volunteer disaster-relief activities. In 1995, when he was a staffer of the educational cruise ship Peace Boat, Yamamoto began working on disaster relief for Kobe after the Great Hanshin Earthquake of Jan. 17 that year. He went on to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Language no barrier to multimedia Jon Kabira</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jun 2013 15:05:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomoko Otake</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Jon Kabira]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With a long rousing cry of “Goooooooood Mooooorning Tooookyoooooooooooo!” Jon Kabira launches into his weekly radio show “JK Radio — Tokyo United” every Friday at 6 a.m. on J-Wave.]]></description>
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		<title>A fortunate life among hot springs</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 15:05:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judit Kawaguchi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Kazuhiro Shiraishi, 66, is a guest-house manager in the Izu-kogen Highlands, a famous resort area on the Izu Peninsula of Shizuoka Prefecture. Looking out onto the Pacific Ocean, and just 90 minutes by train from Tokyo, Izu has a warm climate all year round and a gorgeous coastline dotted with open-air hot springs. Shiraishi has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dai Tamesue: Japan&#8217;s &#8216;samurai hurdler&#8217; keeps rising to new challenges</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2013 15:20:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomoko Otake</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ Though word-class track athlete Dai Tamesue may have hung up his spikes, he has plenty of insights to share on how sports can play a bigger role in society.]]></description>
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		<title>Edoya Nekohachi entertains with animal voices</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2013/04/24/people/edoya-nekohachi-entertains-with-animal-voices/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=edoya-nekohachi-entertains-with-animal-voices</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 15:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judit Kawaguchi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Animal mimicry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Animal mimicry artist Edoya Nekohachi, 63, is a third-generation Japanese performer whose precise renditions of hundreds of bird species' songs, as well as frog croaks, dog barks and dolphin whistles have been amusing audiences of all ages for more than 40 years.]]></description>
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		<title>Closing time for an old-style watchmaker winding up his career</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2013 15:10:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Hornyak</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[As cotton-thick snow falls on St. Catherine Street in the heart of the province of Quebec's largest city, Iwao Tsumura works away in his dingy second-floor shop. ]]></description>
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		<title>Shigeru Ban: &#8216;People&#8217;s architect&#8217; combines permanence and paper</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Apr 2013 15:30:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edan Corkill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arata Isozaki]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[architect]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[architecture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frank Gehry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frank Lloyd Wright]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shigeru Ban]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Generally speaking, an architect’s style is defined by particular forms or shapes. There’s Frank Lloyd Wright’s prominent horizontal lines, for instance; Le Corbusier’s simple white boxes; or, more recently, the deliberately abstract masses of Frank Gehry — of Guggenheim Bilbao fame. ]]></description>
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		<title>Kite artist Tetsuya Kishida</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2013/03/27/people/kite-artist-tetsuya-kishida/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=kite-artist-tetsuya-kishida</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2013 15:08:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judit Kawaguchi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Japanese kite artist Tetsuya Kishida, 89, has been creating and flying kites since the age of 6. He used to be a salesman for the steel industry and he later sold bonsai. In his late 40s, he finally turned his hobby of painting kites into a profession. His artistic repertoire is inspired by images from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two years on, Fukushima evacuees seek justice and a normal life</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2013/03/10/people/two-years-on-fukushima-evacuees-seek-justice-and-a-normal-life/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=two-years-on-fukushima-evacuees-seek-justice-and-a-normal-life</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Mar 2013 15:01:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Winifred Bird</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[3/11 2nd anniversary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fukushima nuclear disaster]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Living in a tiny temporary house isn&#8217;t all bad. &#8220;I always wanted to see what it felt like to live in a little apartment, like one of those newlywed couples,&#8221; says Itsuko Suzuki, 63. &#8220;Cleaning house is a snap,&#8221; says Keiko Sugahara, 60. &#8220;You want to turn on the TV? Reach over here. Want a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Giving the children of Fukushima a place to play is not easy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Mar 2013 15:01:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Winifred Bird</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Fukushima Aiikuen orphanage sits on 7 hectares of wooded hills — that&#8217;s about the area of 15 or 16 soccer pitches — on the outskirts of the city of Fukushima. There&#8217;s an outdoor sports field, a campsite and plenty of lawns for the 91 children living there to play on. In the two years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japanese women strive to empower themselves</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2013/03/03/people/japanese-women-strive-to-empower-themselves/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=japanese-women-strive-to-empower-themselves</link>
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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>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>
				<category><![CDATA[Postpartum depression]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pregnancy]]></category>

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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>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>Carpenter Eiichiro Amakasu</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 15:01:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judit Kawaguchi</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Eiichiro Amakasu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kanna]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sukiya]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eiichiro Amakasu, 70, is a carpenter who designs and builds traditional Japanese homes and their surrounding gardens. He is an expert of sukiya, a residential architectural style that is typically associated with Japanese tea houses. ]]></description>
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		<title>Hidetoshi Masunaga: making revolution through the Constitution</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2013 15:52:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomoko Otake</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hidetoshi Masunaga]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japan constitution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Suffrage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On Dec. 14, 2012, two days before the Lower House election in which the Democratic Party of Japan headed by Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda was eclipsed as the conservative Liberal Democratic Party swept back to power in a landslide, a one-page advert with a huge banner headline appeared in a vernacular newspaper. In big kanji [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rag-and-bone man Kei Ochiai</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2013 00:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judit Kawaguchi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Kei Ochiai is a rag-and-bone man for the Kanto region. He drives his small truck through neighborhoods in Tokyo and Yokohama, circling the areas while sounding his pitch with a loudspeaker: &#8220;Furniture, bikes, fridges, anything big and heavy, I&#8217;ll take it.&#8221; His jovial demeanor instantly wins him hearts and lots of business. He helps people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Frederik Schodt: pop culture ambassador to the world</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2013/01/06/people/frederik-schodt-manga-ambassador-to-the-world/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=frederik-schodt-manga-ambassador-to-the-world</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jan 2013 00:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edan Corkill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Astro Boy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frederik L. Schodt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Osamu Tezuka]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quick quiz: Who was the first Japanese civilian to be issued a passport? If your mind is drifting in the direction of a businessman who might have availed himself of an early opportunity to travel abroad in the mid-1860s, when the government first permitted such things, think again. It was a circus performer named Sumidagawa [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Benshi Midori Sawato</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Dec 2012 00:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judit Kawaguchi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Benshi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charlie Chaplin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Midori Sawato]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Silent film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yasujirō Ozu]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Midori Sawato is a benshi, a unique kind of performer who provides live narration to silent films at the movie theater. The benshi brings the characters in films alive using different voices and vocal expressions. They sit to the side of the screen, watching the movie with the audience and using their versatility and talent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In era of skyscrapers, group lobbies to keep Tokyo&#8217;s traditional buildings</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2012/12/08/our-lives/in-era-of-skyscrapers-group-lobbies-to-keep-tokyos-traditional-buildings-2/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=in-era-of-skyscrapers-group-lobbies-to-keep-tokyos-traditional-buildings-2</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Dec 2012 00:01:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Kleindl</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[architecture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shitamachi]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sitting at a wooden table in the glass-enclosed sun room of the miraculously preserved 95-year-old Yasuda House, Sumiko Enbutsu, a very youthful 78, radiates enthusiasm. The house, a superb example of Taisho Era architecture and construction techniques, is now owned by the Japan National Trust. But for over 70 years it was the residence of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Michael Woodford: Japan&#8217;s whistle-blower supreme speaks out</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Dec 2012 00:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Hickey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Woodford glances out of the floor-to-ceiling window of his multimillion-pound loft apartment, which looks out across the River Thames toward the City of London, the so-called Square Mile that is among the world&#8217;s leading financial and commercial centers. The 52-year-old Briton has effectively been jobless since being ousted for the part he played in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bar Aoyagi owner Reiko Yoshimura</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2012 00:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judit Kawaguchi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Reiko Yoshimura is the owner of Aoyagi, a tiny bar in the basement of Tokyo&#8217;s Shimbashi station. Built in 1966, the retro Shimbashi Ekimae Biru Ichigokan (Shimbashi Station Building No.1) is home to dozens of inexpensive drinking establishments that cater to salarymen and the occasional salarywomen who stop by for a beer and a bite [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yoshiko Tatsumi: Cookery guru serves wisdom with her soups</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Nov 2012 00:01:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomoko Otake</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[chef]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[teacher]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Never fight a war with Chinese people, because we would lose,&#8221; Yoshiko Tatsumi sternly warned, &#8220;with absolute certainty,&#8221; a 40-strong group of mostly middle-aged women gathered recently in her spacious three-story residence set in gardens in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture. &#8220;What we eat today is no match for what they eat. Nobody (in Japan) has vitality [...]]]></description>
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