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	<title>The Japan Times &#187; WORDS TO LIVE BY</title>
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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>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>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>Edoya Nekohachi entertains with animal voices</title>
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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>Kite artist Tetsuya Kishida</title>
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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>Carpenter Eiichiro Amakasu</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 15:01:48 +0000</pubDate>
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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>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>Benshi Midori Sawato</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Dec 2012 00:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judit Kawaguchi</dc:creator>
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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>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>Samurai-armor restorers Chizuru and Fumio Nishioka</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2012 00:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judit Kawaguchi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Chizuru, 58, and Fumio Nishioka, 59, are samurai-armor restorers. Among the handful of such specialists in Japan, they are the only ones who use the same techniques as artisans historically did in the past. Whether 900 or 150 years old, a samurai&#8217;s armor reveals its history through its layers of skilled craftsmanship. Chizuru and Fumio [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hunter Shoji Kuramochi</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2012 00:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judit Kawaguchi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Shoji Kuramochi, 73, is one of Japan&#8217;s few surviving hunters, and he may be the only one with 100 trained hunting dogs. Besides being a hunter of wild boars and deer, he&#8217;s also an expert at the traditional Japanese art forms of bonsai cultivation and the breeding of beautiful and rare types of kingyo (goldfish). [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Noriko Hama, Japanese economist and Dean of Doshisha Business School</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2012 00:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judit Kawaguchi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Noriko Hama, is a Japanese economist, the Dean of Doshisha Business School in Kyoto and a contributor to The Japan Times. Well known for her candid television commentaries, popular columns, she is completely absorbed in the world of economics, and utterly unfazed by its ups and downs. Hama has never been interested in making money, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social-media manager Lin Qing Xiang</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2012 00:01:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lin Qing Xiang, 33, is the social-media manager of the &#8220;The Ruby Alan Show&#8221; (also known as &#8220;The RA Show&#8221;), a video blog that explores both Singaporean and Japanese culture. Lin creates travelogues of his journeys around Japan and also films Japanese-culture events in Singapore. A die-hard fan, he loves sharing his knowledge and love [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Minae Inahara, part-time lecturer at Rikkyo University</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 00:01:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Minae Inahara, 39, is a part-time lecturer at Rikkyo University in Tokyo. With a PhD in philosophy from the University of Hull in the United Kingdom, she has been researching disability on three continents: Australia, Asia and Europe. She is an expert in the exploration of the phenomenology of disability. A lot of Inahara&#8217;s knowledge [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Polish journalist-designer-photographers Pawel Musialowski and Malgorzata Gajderowicz</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 00:02:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judit Kawaguchi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Pawel &#8220;Mr. Jedi&#8221; Musialowski, 39, and Malgorzata Gajderowicz, 29, are a Polish journalist-designer-photographer, husband-and-wife team who video-blog exclusively about their favorite place on earth: Japan. Pawel created Kawaii, Poland&#8217;s first magazine dedicated to Japanese manga and anime in 1997, and his website kawaii-mrjedi.blogspot.jp (written in Polish) is a comprehensive gateway to Japan and its culture. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yasuo Sasano, manager of Kurumi Mansion</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 00:02:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judit Kawaguchi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Yasuo Sasano, 62, is the manager of Kurumi Mansion, an extended-stay hotel in Tokyo&#8217;s Koto Ward. Located on the Sumida riverside, across from Tokyo City Air Terminal, Kurumi Mansion&#8217;s convenient position and reasonable prices have made it a magnet for savvy travelers. An added attraction is Sasano himself, whose warm welcome &#8212; in fluent English [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Educator, writer, farmer Gregory Clark</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 00:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gregory Clark, 75, is the Honorary President of Tama University and Trustee of Akita International University in Japan. A prolific writer, with a background in economics and international politics, his opinionated investigative pieces often spark intensive debates. His 1978 book &#8220;The Japanese Tribe: Origins of a Nation&#8217;s Uniqueness&#8221; explored what he saw as the differences [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eyewear designer Alain Mikli</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 00:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judit Kawaguchi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Alain Mikli, 56, is not just the most famous eyewear designer in the world &#8212; he invented the job description. Mikli was the first person to achieve worldwide success as a designer of nothing else but eyeglasses. He established his own brand in Paris in 1978 and pioneered the idea of wearing frames as accessories. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan Pom Pom cheerleaders founder Fumie Takino</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 00:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judit Kawaguchi</dc:creator>
		
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		<title>Ichifuji owners Midori and Takashi Nakao</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 00:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Midori and Takashi Nakao, 55 and 61, are the owners of Ichifuji, a shop selling Japanese crockery in Tokyo&#8217;s Tsukiji fish market. Established in 1951, the store is located in one of the oldest buildings in the j&#333;gai shij&#333; or outer market. More than 5,000 types of Japanese tableware are available to buy, most of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eriko Hiratsuka</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 00:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eriko Hiratsuka, 26, received her master&#8217;s degree from Waseda University&#8217;s Graduate School of Law in 2010. That&#8217;s no small achievement for anyone, but for Eriko, who has severe hearing loss in both ears, reaching her goals has always required extra effort. Although she can only hear sounds above 80 decibels &#8212; which is about the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ondagumi president Chuya Onda</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 00:01:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judit Kawaguchi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Chuya Onda, 68, is the president of Ondagumi, one of Japan&#8217;s biggest hikiya companies. Hikiya specialize in deconstructing, rebuilding and moving buildings. They are also experts at lifting up houses in order to make them earthquake-proof with special high-tech materials. Since the Great East Japan Earthquake of March 11, Onda&#8217;s company has been overwhelmed with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chair of the Japanese Association for Suicide Prevention Yukio Saito</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 00:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judit Kawaguchi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Yukio Saito, 75, is the Chair of the Japanese Association for Suicide Prevention and CEO of the Japanese Federation of Inochi-no-denwa (Lifeline), Japan&#8217;s first and largest telephone counseling service. For the past five decades, Saito has been educating the public and lobbying relentlessly to bring an end to Japan&#8217;s shockingly high suicide rate, which is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Monja-yaki restaurant owner Minoru Maruyama</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 00:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Minoru Maruyama, 68, is the owner of the Maruyama Monja restaurant. Located in Tsukishima&#8217;s Monja Street in Tokyo, his tiny joint is one of the 70 or so mom-and-pop shops in the area that all serve monja-yaki, a, pan-fried loose-batter shitamachi (downtown) snack food that is loved by children and adults alike. Maruyama&#8217;s signature jet-black [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Refugees International Japan President Jane Best</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 00:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Japan Tourism Agency Commissioner Hiroshi Mizohata</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011 00:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Maharaja Company president Emiko Kothari</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2011 00:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Emiko Kothari is president of the Maharaja Company Ltd, a chain of Indian restaurants across Japan. In 1968, Emiko and her husband, Shivji, opened their first Indian restaurant in Tokyo, and the couple&#8217;s winning recipe of mixing authentic Indian cuisine and Japanese hospitality contributed to an Indian culinary boom in Japan. Today, her guests savor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fashion designer Saleem d&#8217;Aronville</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[JUDIT KAWAGUCHI Saleem d&#8217;Aronville is a British fashion designer based in Tokyo. In 2003, he launched Orihica, a brand he developed for Aoki Holdings Inc., one of Japan&#8217;s top fashion retailers. As its creative director, Saleem built Orihica into a major label with 65 stores around the country. The brand&#8217;s beautifully tailored suits and shirts, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Robocon founder Dr. Masahiro Mori</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 00:01:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Dr. Arihisa Fujimaki</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 00:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
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