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	<title>The Japan Times &#187; CLOSE-UP</title>
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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>
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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>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>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>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>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>
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		<category><![CDATA[Frank Gehry]]></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>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>Hidetoshi Masunaga: making revolution through the Constitution</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2013/02/03/people/making-revolution-through-the-constitution/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=making-revolution-through-the-constitution</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2013 15:52:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomoko Otake</dc:creator>
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		<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>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>
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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>Michael Woodford: Japan&#8217;s whistle-blower supreme speaks out</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2012/12/02/people/japans-whistle-blower-supreme-speaks-out/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=japans-whistle-blower-supreme-speaks-out</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Dec 2012 00:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Hickey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Michael Woodford]]></category>
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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>Yoshiko Tatsumi: Cookery guru serves wisdom with her soups</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2012/11/04/people/cookery-guru-serves-wisdom-with-her-soups/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=cookery-guru-serves-wisdom-with-her-soups</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Nov 2012 00:01:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomoko Otake</dc:creator>
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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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		<title>Shigesato Itoi shares lots of &#8216;delicious life&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Oct 2012 00:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Setsuko Kamiya</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Shigesato Itoi]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Shigesato Itoi is an established name in the Japanese cultural scene, but what he is known for may differ depending on who you ask. To some, the 63-year-old is one of the most acclaimed advertising copywriters, who created an astonishing body of honed and catchy slogans, claims and come-ons during Japan&#8217;s upbeat period of high [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Film star Satoshi Tsumabuki moves up to a new stage</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Sep 2012 00:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nobuko Tanaka</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Satoshi Tsumabuki]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Wearing a headband and tracksuit, Satoshi Tsumabuki — the 31-year-old darling of the Japanese entertainment world — was easy to spot among a crowd of actors in a rehearsal studio in downtown Tokyo recently. He was there preparing for &#8220;Egg,&#8221; Hideki Noda&#8217;s new play, which opens Wednesday at the Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre (TMET) in Ikebukuro [...]]]></description>
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		<title>David Atkinson: Ancient Japan captures money man&#8217;s interest</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Aug 2012 00:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomoko Otake</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[David Atkinson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Meiji Era]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Miyagi Prefecture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Salomon Brothers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[David Atkinson was still in his 20s when he rose to fame as a Japan-based banking analyst with the U.S. investment bank Salomon Brothers, prior to him moving to Goldman Sachs. Having graduated from Oxford University with an M.A. in Japanese studies in 1987, and following a few years&#8217; stint in London and New York [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Author Lesley Downer&#8217;s romance with Japan is no fleeting affair</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jul 2012 00:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Victoria James</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Journey to a Lost Japan]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Memoirs of a Geisha]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[British writer, historian and journalist Lesley Downer has been visiting Japan and writing about it for nearly 35 years — beginning in 1978, when she was part of the first-ever intake of the English Teaching Recruitment Program, which evolved into the famous JET (Japan Exchange and Teaching Program) scheme. Since then, she has presented a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Koki Mitani: Japan&#8217;s Mr. Comedy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jun 2012 00:02:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nobuko Tanaka</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Koki Mitani]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Cherry Orchard]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Koki Mitani is far and away the nation&#8217;s best-known dramatist. Although theater is quite a niche medium here, most people in Japan — whether male or female, young or not so young, Japanese or not — recognize his face, even if they couldn&#8217;t name many of his works. Recently, indeed, I was amazed when a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Richard Collasse: Sold on brand Japan</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2012 00:02:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eriko Arita</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In Tokyo&#8217;s high-end Ginza district, the Chanel Building stands out among the luxury fashion boutiques and global brands&#8217; emporiums thanks to its shining black-glass exterior. To go inside Chanel&#8217;s flagship shop in Japan is, for the normal hom sap, however, to be overwhelmed by the variety of elegant and luxurious items including bags, shoes, suits [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Naohiko Jinno: Master of public finance brings life to numbers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2012 00:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomoko Otake</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Naohiko Jinno]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Public economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Public finance]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Born the grandson of a once-prosperous textile manufacturer in Urawa, Saitama Prefecture, Naohiko Jinno says that when he was growing up he was told by his mother, over and over again, that money was not important. Now aged 66, and a professor emeritus of economics at the University of Tokyo, Jinno recalls his mother telling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taro Yamamoto: Actor in the spotlight of Japan&#8217;s antinuke movement</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Mar 2012 00:01:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eriko Arita</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[activism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nuclear power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taro Yamamoto]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tokyo Electric Power Co.]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On a rainy midwinter day, Taro Yamamoto stood with a small group of people in front of Shimokitazawa Station in Tokyo&#8217;s Setagaya Ward and addressed passers-by in that artsy youth-culture hub. &#8220;I am an actor — Taro Yamamoto,&#8221; he announced. &#8220;And I would like to ask you to add your signature to a petition we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mickey Curtis: from rocker to &#8216;Robo-G&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:01:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Schilling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chuck Berry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elvis Presley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frank Sinatra]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jerry Lee Lewis]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Robo Ji]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The pioneers of the rock &#8216;n&#8217; roll era on both sides of the Atlantic have now largely faded from the show-business scene — which is hardly surprising, given that those still strutting their stuff are in their 70s and 80s, and even &#8220;The King&#8221; himself, Elvis Presley, who died in 1977, would be 77 today. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mayumi Kagita: A fusion of cultures revealed in dance</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eriko Arita</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[dance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flamenco]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mayumi Kagita]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Nov. 19, the Pit hall of the New National Theatre, Tokyo, in Shibuya, was filled with hundreds of eager theater-goers. They had come to see a performance of &#8220;Onna Goroshi Abura no Jigoku&#8221; (&#8220;The Women-Killer and the Hell of Oil&#8221;), a play written by Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653-1724) — Japan&#8217;s greatest dramatist, known for his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tenten Hosokawa: Drawing the blues away</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2011 00:02:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomoko Otake</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[comic artist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Manga]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[manga artist]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the last few decades, clinical depression in Japan has emerged from its longstanding obscurity shrouded in shame and guilt to becoming far more openly recognized as a national disease. A 2010 report by the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry put the number of patients seeking professional care for depression at 704,000 — a more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kiyoshi Nakabayashi: Ex-Tokyo cop speaks out on a life fighting gangs — and what you can do</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2011 00:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edan Corkill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[detective]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kiyoshi Nakabayashi]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kiyoshi Nakabayashi well remembers how, when he was a high school student in the late 1950s and early &#8217;60s, newspapers were full of stories of violent gang wars being fought out openly on the streets of Tokyo. Most Japanese reacted to those brazen displays of violence with mute fear or, perversely, thrilled admiration. Nakabayashi&#8217;s reaction [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Satoshi Kamata: Rebel spirit writ large</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Oct 2011 00:01:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eriko Arita</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[nuclear power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Satoshi Kamata]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Monday, Sept. 19, was Respect for the Aged Day in Japan. But on that sweltering national holiday, it wasn&#8217;t the heat that that drew tens of thousands of people to Meiji Park in central Tokyo, but their concerns for all the nation&#8217;s citizens, and others, who may face a threat from nuclear power. Addressing that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alfons Deeken: Priest-philosopher makes death his life&#8217;s work</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Sep 2011 00:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eriko Arita</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Friday, July 22, as the stifling heat and humidity of summer relented for just a fleeting few days, hundreds of people filled a hall at Enkakuji Temple in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, to listen to a lecture by philosophy scholar Alfons Deeken. German-born Deeken, a professor emeritus at Sophia University in Tokyo, and long a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tadanori Yokoo: An artist by design</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Aug 2011 00:02:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edan Corkill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Andy Warhol]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[painter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shuji Terayama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tadanori Yokoo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tatsumi Hijikata]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In conversation, Tadanori Yokoo jumps nimbly between the past and the present. One moment he&#8217;s watching the sky glow red as bombs rain down on Kobe during World War II. The next he&#8217;s riding in a taxi with Yukio Mishima. And then he&#8217;s back in the present again, here at his studio in Tokyo&#8217;s Setagaya [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kotaro Horiuchi: A life spent in uncharted waters of boat design</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jul 2011 00:01:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edan Corkill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Kotaro Horiuchi]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Considering the current state of Japan&#8217;s economy, it&#8217;s remarkable to recall that 60 years ago there were hundreds of companies both old and new jockeying restlessly to fill the vacuum left after almost all the nation&#8217;s cities were heavily bombed in World War II — jockeying, that is, with the kind of entrepreneurial verve now [...]]]></description>
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