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		<title>Rescuing gadgets from the  golden age of &#8216;Made in Japan&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Sep 2013 14:30:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomoko Otake</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Piles of old electronic gadgetry, most of it out of order, clutter Junichi Matsuzaki&#8217;s &#8220;studio&#8221; on the first floor of an aging public apartment building in Adachi Ward in northeastern Tokyo. To visitors the outdated technology may look like junk, but to the 53-year-old self-proclaimed consumer electronics collector, it&#8217;s treasure. Filling up the 80-sq.-meter space [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seed bank sprouts support a-plenty</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Sep 2013 14:28:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Winifred Bird</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In a sunny corner of Tomoko and Kenji Usui&#8217;s garden, surrounded by marigolds and goldenrod, there stands a peculiar little house. The thatched roof is tall and pointy like a witch&#8217;s hat, with flowers growing around the brim. The porch is wide and shady, with a handmade wooden chair on it inviting visitors to take [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Olympic stars of the future look forward to 2020</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Sep 2013 14:26:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edan Corkill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2020 Olympics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tokyo 2020]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yokohama Athlete Club]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Thursday night was warm and clear in Yokohama. A cloudless, gradually darkening sky stretched over the 400-meter track at the Yamato Sports Center — seemingly boundless in its ability to absorb the shouts and laughter coming from the 20 boisterous young members of the Yokohama Athlete Club, who had gathered for their weekly training session. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How green is Tohoku&#8217;s &#8216;Green Connections&#8217; project?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Aug 2013 14:20:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Winifred Bird</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[disaster prevention]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green Connections]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On its surface, the plan seems like an environmentalist&#8217;s dream come true: Take wreckage from the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami in the Tohoku region of Honshu and pile it along the washed-out coastline; cover the crumbled concrete and broken wood with soil; then top it all with trees. Communities in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shock-and-awe art fills festival streets with fun</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Aug 2013 14:18:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Schreiber</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ekin matsuri]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Are you tourist?&#8221; asked the man seated beside me on the early afternoon flight from Tokyo&#8217;s Haneda airport to Kochi in Shikoku. He spoke in hesitant English. &#8220;Not exactly. I&#8217;m on my way to cover the Ekin Matsuri,&#8221; I replied in Japanese. &#8220;Ah, Ekin. I&#8217;ve been to it a few times,&#8221; he said, switching languages. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Image-flip for male rhythmic gymnasts</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Aug 2013 14:16:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomoko Otake</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Smirks and snickering tend to greet any mention of &#8220;men&#8217;s rhythmic gymnastics,&#8221; as the phrase conjures up images of chaps in tights prancing around swinging ribbons or clutching squeezy balls to their chests like the sport&#8217;s female exponents. That couldn&#8217;t be further from the truth. In fact, men&#8217;s rhythmic gymnastics is a fantastic event involving [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stuffed-toy savior shares secrets of his plush lifestyle</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jul 2013 14:28:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edan Corkill</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A chap doesn&#8217;t often talk about his teddy bear in public, let alone bare all to eternal cyberspace through a national newspaper. But someing so extraordinary happened to mine of late that I&#8217;ve resolved to throw caution to the wind, to defy, umm, teddiquette — and to come clean. First, a clarification: While said bear [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fuji meet wrestles with issues common to commons worldwide</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jul 2013 14:26:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Winifred Bird</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Last month, just before the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization announced Mount Fuji&#8217;s designation as a World Cultural Heritage Site for its religious and artistic significance, 430 learned visitors descended on its lower northern slopes. Dressed in saris and suits and with business cards bearing addresses from Pretoria to Amsterdam, the scholars, policy-makers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the trail of bear hunters&#8217; heritage</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2013/07/20/environment/on-the-trail-of-bear-hunters-heritage/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=on-the-trail-of-bear-hunters-heritage</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jul 2013 14:24:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomoko Otake</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Takashi Yoshikawa is no easy man to figure out. Trim and well tanned, the 63-year-old owns a small ryokan (traditional inn) nestled in the foothills of the beautiful Shirakami Mountains which straddle 130,000 hectares of Aomori and Akita prefectures, and whose 17,000 hectares of beech forests were listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site 20 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Family-crest master fears he&#8217;s one of a dying breed</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jun 2013 15:05:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomoko Otake</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Family crests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kamon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shoryu Hatoba]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Dressed in a black kimono and wearing a pair of eye-catching black, triple-framed spectacles, Shoryu Hatoba straightens his back as he sits on the tatami floor of his quaint studio in Ueno, central Tokyo, holding a pair of bamboo compasses fitted with a brush dipped in ink in place of a pencil. Then he focuses [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Insecticides pit trees against bees</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jun 2013 15:01:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Winifred Bird</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[honeybees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Matsugreen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[neonicotinoid]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[pine-wilt disease]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;That&#8217;s where they&#8217;re going to spray.&#8221; Organic farmer Naoki Tachikawa, 43, is standing on the edge of one of his tiny rice fields in the Shiga district of Matsumoto, central Nagano Prefecture, pointing at two low hills that embrace the upper reaches of the terraced valley floor. The hills, which taper off about 200 meters [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fukushima photos focus on what can&#8217;t be seen</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2013/05/19/general/fukushima-photos-focus-on-what-cant-be-seen/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=fukushima-photos-focus-on-what-cant-be-seen</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 15:15:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Kawashima</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[fukushima]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[meltdowns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nuclear energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[radiation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tepco]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tohoku]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tomoki Imai]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Photographer Tomoki Imai has been a blur of activity since we reached the lookout point halfway up 601-meter Mount Higakure in the Futaba district of Fukushima Prefecture. ]]></description>
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		<title>Learning to live with your death</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 15:06:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomoko Otake</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Buddhism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[death]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[religion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It can be a big challenge, even a burden, to strategize your life and prioritize your goals — and then stick to them.]]></description>
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		<title>The other costs of concrete</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 15:06:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Winifred Bird</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[concrete]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environment]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Where does concrete come from? The material has become such a pervasive symbol of human alienation from nature that it's tempting to assume it's just another brutish product of the 18th-century Industrial Revolution. ]]></description>
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		<title>New moves to save Japan&#8217;s sacred trees from a fiery end</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2013/04/21/general/new-moves-to-save-japans-sacred-trees-from-a-fiery-end/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=new-moves-to-save-japans-sacred-trees-from-a-fiery-end</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2013 15:11:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Winifred Bird</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Spend a while walking the streets of any Japanese city and you are bound to notice it: Here and there among the concrete towers, shops and bustling streets, you&#8217;ll find clusters of trees. In some places, five or 10 stately Japanese cedars provide a patch of welcome shade. In others a full-fledged urban jungle hums, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thunderbirds to go and meet on high</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2013 15:10:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Cook</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It seemed like a good idea at the time: With a four-day vacation over New Year's, why not head off to the North Alps in search of ptarmigans, Japan's quintessential birds of its loftiest heights.]]></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>Tohoku coast faces man-made perils in wake of tsunami</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2013/03/17/general/tohoku-coast-faces-man-made-perils-in-wake-of-tsunami/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=tohoku-coast-faces-man-made-perils-in-wake-of-tsunami</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Mar 2013 15:18:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Winifred Bird</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[3/11 reconstruction]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One day in October 2011, marine ecologist Masahiro Nakaoka donned his scuba gear, paddled into the waters of Funakoshi Bay in Iwate Prefecture, and braced himself for his first glimpse of its underwater communities since a massive tsunami triggered by the Great East Japan Earthquake swept through seven months earlier, on March 11. Nakaoka knew [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ghosts of Cowra breakout haunt Japan to this day</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Mar 2013 15:17:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nobuko Tanaka</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cowra breakout]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Prisoner A: &#8221; &#8216;Never live to experience the shame of being taken prisoner by the enemy&#8217; &#8230; that&#8217;s what the Imperial Japanese Military Regulations say, hence there must be no prisoners. So what&#8217;s happening here now are the dreams of ghosts&#8221; — from &#8220;Cowra no Hancho Kaigi&#8221; (&#8220;Honchos&#8217; Meeting in Cowra&#8221;). Last week in Tokyo&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How an American collector brought Jakuchu to Tohoku</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Mar 2013 15:15:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edan Corkill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2nd 3/11 anniversary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ito Jakuchu]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Including loans from each of Japan's six national museums as well as the Imperial Household Agency, "Jakuchu's Here!" represents to a gift from Japan's art establishment to an audience that it has neglected for decades. ]]></description>
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		<title>Fukushima radiation threatens to wreak woodland havoc</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2013/02/17/environment/fukushima-radiation-threatens-to-wreak-woodland-havoc/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=fukushima-radiation-threatens-to-wreak-woodland-havoc</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2013 15:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Winifred Bird</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[For Yuji Hoshino, mushrooms were a way of life. The 50-year-old farmer grew up watching his father raise shiitake mushrooms on their land at the foot of the mountains in Sano, southern Tochigi Prefecture. Later, he became the one to yearly cut about 15,000 logs, each about a meter long and the diameter of a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tracing time&#8217;s passing through faces of Tokyo</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2013 15:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomoko Otake</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Petri Artturi Asikainen would regularly accost strangers in Tokyo, on the streets, in parks or bars and on trains. With a high-end Nikon D3 digital SLR in his hands, the lanky and bespectacled Finn would ask — somewhat timidly summoning one of the few Japanese phrases he had memorized: &#8220;Can I take a picture of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Art disaster turns out to have a silver lining</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2013 15:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edan Corkill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conservation-restoration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ishinomaki]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A dozen paintings hang from the white walls of a gallery at the Museum of Modern Art in Hayama, Kanagawa Prefecture. Mostly prewar works by artists involved in the Proletarian movement, who focused on depictions of factory and farm laborers, the paintings are like many others on display at the museum — except that alongside [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turnip-tossing turns up trumps for trader</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2013 10:47:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomoko Otake</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Turnip]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vegetable]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yoshio Otsuka&#8217;s years of striving to revive a near-extinct strain of turnip known to have been grown some 400 years ago in the Shinagawa district of today&#8217;s central Tokyo recently struck pay dirt in a most unexpected fashion. That&#8217;s because, via a little local celebrity, his efforts at botanical resurrection prompted a bizarre twist of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nanjing remembers; disputes fester</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2013 10:46:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Kingston</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Young Chinese marking the 75th anniversary of the Nanjing Massacre are baptized in battles over war memory that shape bilateral relations.]]></description>
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		<title>Zen and the cross-cultural art of tree-climbing</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2013 10:45:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Winifred Bird</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In the upstairs meeting room of a camping lodge in Komagane, Nagano Prefecture, two women and about 20 men walked slowly and intently in circles one rainy day last November. At the front of the room, a weathered and wiry Englishman intoned the sort of instructions a yoga aficionado would find familiar. &#8220;Focus your attention [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Survivor pens &#8216;too painful&#8217; 3/11 tale</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2012/12/16/general/survivor-pens-too-painful-311-tale/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=survivor-pens-too-painful-311-tale</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Dec 2012 00:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomoko Otake</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Iwate Prefecture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rikuzentakata]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;March 11, 2011 — We will never forget the day. The disaster &#8230; After the massive earthquake occurred, the huge tsunami destroyed this area. Many citizens were lost and the survived people also received the deep crack in their hearts. I had a narrow escape from the tsunami. Was I fortunate? The answer is no. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Last Tokyo street view of Mount Fuji set to go</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Dec 2012 00:01:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Aukema</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[As the sun sets over a small patch of the Nippori district of Tokyo&#8217;s northeastern Arakawa Ward, people can often be seen stopping to gaze to the West &#8212; something not so surprising atop a street named Fujimizaka, which means &#8220;Mount Fuji Viewing Slope.&#8221; However, for anyone who happens upon this spot without realizing its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tsunami survivor uses English to share his tragic story</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Dec 2012 00:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Teiichi Sato</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is a further excerpt from Teiichi Sato&#8217;s book, &#8220;The Seed of Hope in the Heart.&#8221; People&#8217;s accounts that Sato records here about the huge tsunami triggered by the Great East Japan Earthquake of March 11, 2011, were all told to him first-hand by survivors who came to his hastily rebuilt seed shop and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pyongyang offers a rare &#8216;real&#8217; photo opportunity</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2012/12/16/arts/pyongyang-offers-a-rare-real-photo-opportunity/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=pyongyang-offers-a-rare-real-photo-opportunity</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Dec 2012 00:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edan Corkill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[North Korea]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most images of North Korea appearing in the media express just a few aspects of that country — namely, repression, militarism, poverty, backwardness, gloom. Often, the form of photographs of that communist dictatorship conveys those ideas, too — whether by being blurry, taken from a low angle or through a long lens; the implicit message [...]]]></description>
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