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		<title>Ancient tales by the &#8216;savages&#8217; of Hokkaido have lessons for today</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Sep 2013 14:12:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michal Hoffman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine living in a culture with none or very little of the following: politics, economics, property, history, time, agriculture, money, war ambition, heaven, hell, progress, writing &#8230; &#8220;They&#8217;re dogs, not men!&#8221; snapped a certain Mr. Ito upon first encountering the Ainu of Hokkaido in August 1878. Ito (his first name is lost to history) was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pearl Harbor to show A-bomb girl&#8217;s origami</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/20/national/pearl-harbor-to-show-a-bomb-girls-origami/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=pearl-harbor-to-show-a-bomb-girls-origami</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Sep 2013 13:47:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Audrey Mcavoy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hiroshima]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[paper crane]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pearl Harbor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sadako Sasaki]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A small origami crane folded by Sadako Sasaki, who died of leukemia at age 12 after the United States A-bombed her hometown of Hiroshima, will go on display Saturday in Pearl Harbor, where Japan&#8217;s surprise attack in 1941 put the two nations at war. The family of Sasaki, who died in 1955, donated the paper [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free rent for cat lovers, Yangtze towns fall, JFK supports South Vietnam, Union sells nuclear power</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Sep 2013 14:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edan Corkill</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[100 YEARS AGO Thursday, Sept. 11, 1913 Free rent to those with no fear of cats Anyone who is not afraid of cats or knows how to drive away a great plague of feline roughs and toughs is offered the use of a house in Shibuya for a year free of rent. In so doing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New theory on 1613 mission floated</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Sep 2013 13:38:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yugo Hirano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Date Masamune]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sendai]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Historian Naotsugu Hamada has proposed a new theory about the 1613 mission that Date Masamune, Sendai&#8217;s then-feudal lord, sent to Europe and Mexico, arguing that he may have intended to use funds from trade with Mexico to reconstruct Tohoku, which had been rocked by a quake-tsunami disaster just two years earlier. It is traditionally believed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>South Korean text lauds Japan colonial rule</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Sep 2013 13:29:03 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[colonial rule]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[history textbooks]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A newly authorized South Korean history textbook includes some positive passages about Japan&#8217;s colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula before and during World War II, according to local reports. The textbook describes how new cities that developed under colonial rule became transport and distribution hubs, a newspaper reported. It also states that during the Japanese [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ibaraki group plans kamikaze film</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Sep 2013 14:38:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Kamikaze]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[suicide attacks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WWII]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zero Fighter]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[An Ibaraki Prefecture-based group aims to make a movie on a former Imperial Japanese Navy air unit based in the present city of Kasama that trained kamikaze pilots near the end of the war. The Tsukuba air unit, launched in 1934, used the mainstay Zero fighters for training as the war situation worsened. Many young [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yokohama recalls texts describing 1923 &#8216;massacre&#8217; of Koreans</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/29/national/yokohama-recalls-texts-describing-1923-massacre-of-koreans/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=yokohama-recalls-texts-describing-1923-massacre-of-koreans</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Aug 2013 10:36:54 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Great Kanto Earthquake]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The stir caused by a textbook's descriptions of the mass lynching of Koreans following the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake prompts Yokohama's board of education to order schools to collect the books from students.]]></description>
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		<title>Only in Japan could a sword be &#8216;life-giving&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/24/national/only-in-japan-could-a-sword-be-life-giving/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=only-in-japan-could-a-sword-be-life-giving</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Aug 2013 14:18:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michal Hoffman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Daisetz T. Suzuki]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dog Shohun]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mInazo Nitobe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Miyamoto Musashi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thomas McClatchie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zen]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Few countries have broken with their past as sharply as Japan did. That was the price it paid for modernity. Japan in the mid-19th century had a beautiful, deep, highly refined culture that reached far down the social scale &#8212; but it was an ancient culture, not a modern one, artistic rather than acquisitive, helpless [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Was Fellers friend of Japan or master manipulator?</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/23/national/was-fellers-friend-of-japan-or-master-manipulator/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=was-fellers-friend-of-japan-or-master-manipulator</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Aug 2013 13:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[occupation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WWII]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A Nagoya University professor is working on a book about the life of the late U.S. Brig. Gen. Bonner Fellers, who played a major role in absolving Emperor Hirohito (known posthumously as Emperor Showa) of responsibility for Japan’s wartime aggression across Asia. The movie &#8220;Emperor,&#8221; currently showing in domestic theaters, portrays Fellers, the main character, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yomeimon yields paintings hidden for two centuries</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/17/national/yomeimon-yields-paintings-hidden-for-two-centuries/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=yomeimon-yields-paintings-hidden-for-two-centuries</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Aug 2013 14:41:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nikko Toshogu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tokugawa Ieyasu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wall paintings]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Renovation work at the famed Yomeimon Gate of Toshogu Shrine in the tourist city of Nikko, Tochigi Prefecture, has revealed wall paintings hidden for more than 200 years. It is believed the depictions of cranes were painted in 1752 on the west side of Yomeimon, designated as a national treasure, but had been covered by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sumida River swimmers, brides for Manchoukuo, driving chaos, PM&#8217;s Recruit incident remarks</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/17/national/sumida-river-swimmers-brides-for-manchoukuo-driving-chaos-pms-recruit-incident-remarks/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=sumida-river-swimmers-brides-for-manchoukuo-driving-chaos-pms-recruit-incident-remarks</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Aug 2013 14:16:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edan Corkill</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[100 YEARS AGO Wednesday, Aug. 6, 1913 Swimmers cool off in Tokyo&#8217;s Sumida River &#8220;O Joy! Come in and splash me!&#8221; The exhilarating shouts of boys and girls are heard all along the Sumida River, which has been turned into a continuous swimming pool by the young men and women of Tokyo, driven out of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To normalize ties, Mao turned to war criminal</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Aug 2013 11:27:32 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Imperial Japanese Army]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1956 and 1957, the late Chinese leader Mao Zedong wanted a Japanese Class-A war criminal who remained an influential figure in the postwar era to visit China in an apparent effort to normalize diplomatic ties with Japan, according to recently disclosed diplomatic documents. The documents, held at the Archives of the Chinese Foreign Ministry, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan yet to dispose of arsenic from wartime chemical weapons in China</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Aug 2013 17:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[arsenic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chemical weapons]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Japan has yet to dispose of arsenic residue from chemical weapons its Imperial army abandoned in China at the end of World War II, a source close to bilateral relations said Wednesday, noting there are calls for the toxin to be sent to Japan. The arsenic comes from arms that were destroyed in a chemical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Papers that pushed for Pacific War revisited</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/14/national/papers-that-pushed-for-pacific-war-revisited-2/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=papers-that-pushed-for-pacific-war-revisited-2</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Aug 2013 13:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Reiji Yoshida</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Class-A war criminal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pacific War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pearl Harbor]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Papers from the long-locked safe of the late Lt. Gen. Teiichi Suzuki, an Imperial Japanese Army wartime Cabinet minister, reveal his faulted argument that Japan had the wherewithal to wage war against the Allies.  ]]></description>
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		<title>Memories of war&#8217;s victims, victimizers</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/14/national/memories-of-wars-victims-victimizers/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=memories-of-wars-victims-victimizers</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Aug 2013 12:28:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keiji Hirano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[war]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WWII]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A freelance photojournalist has recorded the individual histories of 70 survivors of the war at home and abroad to show how they acted during wartime and how their experiences affected the rest of their lives. &#8220;I wanted to record the testimonies of war survivors as they are aging and they sincerely responded to my interviews, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Korean&#8217;s war brothel diaries offer new details</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Aug 2013 14:01:20 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[comfort women]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[sex slaves]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The diaries of a Korean man who worked in wartime brothels for Japanese soldiers in Burma and Singapore during World War II are providing a wealth of new information about "comfort women."]]></description>
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		<title>Campaign aims to introduce U.N.-recognized day in memory of wartime sex slaves</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/11/national/campaign-to-introduce-u-n-day-to-end-wartime-sexual-assault-under-way/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=campaign-to-introduce-u-n-day-to-end-wartime-sexual-assault-under-way</link>
		<comments>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/11/national/campaign-to-introduce-u-n-day-to-end-wartime-sexual-assault-under-way/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Aug 2013 14:37:27 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[comfort women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sex slaves]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Activists launch a campaign to introduce a United Nations-proclaimed day to remember wartime sex slaves and end sexual assaults against women in wartime.]]></description>
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		<title>Britain backed use of A-bomb against Japan: U.S. documents</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/04/national/britain-backed-use-of-a-bomb-against-japan-u-s-documents/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=britain-backed-use-of-a-bomb-against-japan-u-s-documents</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Aug 2013 14:21:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Britain]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Britain supported the use of atomic bombs against Japan in World War II about a month before the United States dropped the first one on Hiroshima, documents show.]]></description>
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		<title>Exhibit highlights Taiwan sex slaves</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/02/national/exhibit-highlights-taiwan-sex-slaves/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=exhibit-highlights-taiwan-sex-slaves</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Aug 2013 14:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keiji Hirano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[comfort women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sex slaves]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taiwan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A Tokyo museum focusing on wartime sex slavery is holding an exhibition on how Taiwanese women exploited by the Japanese military have struggled to recover from their ordeals. The Women&#8217;s Active Museum on War and Peace, better known as WAM, has collected documents and testimony on the sexual exploitation of Taiwanese women &#8220;to hand down [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A drop in the ocean: the sea-dumping of chemical weapons in Okinawa</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/27/national/a-drop-in-the-ocean-the-sea-dumping-of-chemical-weapons-in-okinawa/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=a-drop-in-the-ocean-the-sea-dumping-of-chemical-weapons-in-okinawa</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jul 2013 14:25:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon Mitchell</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Accounts by U.S. veterans in the accompanying feature of tons of chemical weapons being dumped off Okinawa in autumn 1969 are the first time such revelations have been made public &#8212; but in fact they tally entirely with the Pentagon&#8217;s standard operating procedures at that time. For almost as long as such weapons have been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leak finally led to removal of chemical weapons from Okinawa</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/27/national/leak-finally-led-to-removal-of-chemical-weapons-from-okinawa/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=leak-finally-led-to-removal-of-chemical-weapons-from-okinawa</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jul 2013 14:25:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[1952: The Treaty of San Francisco grants control of Okinawa to the United States. The U.S. sends its first shipment of chemical weapons to Okinawa for possible deployment in the 1950-53 Korean War. 1962-63: The U.S. sends further chemical-weapons shipments to Okinawa. 1969: A leak of chemical weapons at Chibana Ammunition Depot sickens 24 Americans. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What if Columbus had reached his goal: Japan?</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/27/national/what-if-columbus-had-reached-his-goal-japan/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=what-if-columbus-had-reached-his-goal-japan</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jul 2013 14:22:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michal Hoffman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Donald Keene]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kublai Khan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marco Polo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mongol Empire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Onin War]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every school child knows that in 1492 Christopher Columbus discovered America. Every school child knows wrongly. When the Genovese explorer&#8217;s three ships sailed westward from Palo de la Frontera, Spain, on Aug. 2, 1492, he was bound, he thought, for &#8220;the noble island of Cipangu&#8221; &#8212; Japan. Cipangu would be his gateway to &#8220;the Indies,&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taiwan government to use new wording for Japanese colonial period</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/23/national/taiwan-government-to-use-new-wording-for-japanese-colonial-period/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=taiwan-government-to-use-new-wording-for-japanese-colonial-period</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jul 2013 14:50:03 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[colonial rule]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[history textbook]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Taiwan&#8217;s Executive Yuan, or Cabinet, instructed all government agencies Monday to begin calling the 50-year Japanese colonial rule of the island as the &#8220;Japanese occupation period&#8221; in official documents. The announcement came ahead of an Education Ministry decision over whether to also change the &#8220;Japan-governed period&#8221; in high school history books to the &#8220;Japanese occupation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tokyo homeless, Olympics cancelled, medals given for kindness, Mandela&#8217;s birthday feted</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/20/national/tokyo-homeless-olympics-cancelled-medals-given-for-kindness-mandelas-birthday-feted/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=tokyo-homeless-olympics-cancelled-medals-given-for-kindness-mandelas-birthday-feted</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jul 2013 14:16:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edan Corkill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poor House]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wartime]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[100 YEARS AGO Wednesday, July 23, 1913 Tales of woe abound among Tokyo jobless Summer is generally a good season for employment-seekers of the laboring classes. This summer, however, there are twice as many unemployed men as usual. The Free Lodging House of Honjo, Tokyo, for instance, generally takes in about 20 lodgers nightly during [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The &#8216;barbarians&#8217; were coming — like it or not</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/06/23/national/the-barbarians-were-coming-like-it-or-not/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-barbarians-were-coming-like-it-or-not</link>
		<comments>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/06/23/national/the-barbarians-were-coming-like-it-or-not/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Jun 2013 15:10:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michal Hoffman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Black Ships]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Meiji Restoration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Perry]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Sonnō jōi!&#8221;: &#8220;Revere the Emperor, expel the barbarians!&#8221; The writing was on the wall long before the wall crumbled. Japan&#8217;s splendid isolation — splendid in its own eyes — would no longer be accepted. The outside world was growing restless. Nations were reaching out, testing their strength, harnessing new technologies, trading, expanding, colonizing. Could Japan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taiwan&#8217;s last native tribe, carrier-pigeon trumps train, STEP test launched, rock album nixed for anti-nuke lyrics</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/06/16/national/taiwans-last-native-tribe-carrier-pigeon-trumps-train-step-test-launched-rock-album-nixed-for-anti-nuke-lyrics/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=taiwans-last-native-tribe-carrier-pigeon-trumps-train-step-test-launched-rock-album-nixed-for-anti-nuke-lyrics</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jun 2013 15:10:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edan Corkill</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[100 YEARS AGOThursday, June 6, 1913 &#8216;Terrible campaign&#8217; launched in Taiwan Military operations against the tribes in northeastern Taiwan were commenced at dawn yesterday. The government forces consist of 3,000 men, of the police and native troops. Mr. Uchida, Chief of the Civil Administration, is on the scene. General Sakuma, Governor-General of Taiwan, will be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Death threats sparked Japan&#8217;s first cricket game</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/06/16/national/death-threats-sparked-japans-first-cricket-game/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=death-threats-sparked-japans-first-cricket-game</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jun 2013 15:02:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Galbraith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[cricket]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James Campbell Fraser]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Matthew Perry]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On June 25, 1863, a Royal Navy team drawn from officers on ships sent to protect British expats in Japan had plenty to worry about as the lanky James Campbell Fraser strode out to bat against them on an apology for a cricket pitch in Yokohama. A swashbuckling Scot, Fraser had played cricket while at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hashimoto to urge &#8216;strict discipline&#8217; for U.S. military</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/05/27/national/hashimoto-to-urge-strict-discipline-for-u-s-military/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=hashimoto-to-urge-strict-discipline-for-u-s-military</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 May 2013 15:06:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto said Sunday he will urge the U.S. military to strictly discipline its servicemen in Japan and repeated that he would retract a remark suggesting they use Okinawa&#8217;s sex industry to avoid committing sexual offenses. Hashimoto said on a TV program that he will make the appeal at a news conference in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>History shows one man&#8217;s rape is another&#8217;s wooing</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/05/26/national/history-shows-one-mans-rape-is-anothers-wooing/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=history-shows-one-mans-rape-is-anothers-wooing</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 15:03:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michal Hoffman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The evolution of political thought in this relatively isolated island nation during the period in question is unique to the point of being somewhat freakish.&#8221; This gives a reader pause. Freakish? The judgment is historian Hiroshi Watanabe&#8217;s in &#8220;A History of Japanese Political Thought, 1600-1901,&#8221; his 2010 book whose title defines &#8220;the period in question.&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hibiya Park illuminations, Japan’s first mosque, ‘Vigorous’ Mount Fuji stymies relocation, minister resigns over war-guilt denial</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/05/19/national/hibiya-park-illuminations-japans-first-mosque-vigorous-mount-fuji-stymies-relocation-minister-resigns-over-war-guilt-denial/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=hibiya-park-illuminations-japans-first-mosque-vigorous-mount-fuji-stymies-relocation-minister-resigns-over-war-guilt-denial</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 15:10:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edan Corkill</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[100 YEARS AGO Wednesday, May 14, 1913 Illuminations reap a tidy profit for city Tokyo city has withdrawn the illuminations at Hibiya which it made for the benefit of the admirers of the park&#8217;s azaleas. The plan proved very successful, greatly benefitting the city treasury. According to the investigations made by the Municipal Electric Bureau, [...]]]></description>
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