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		<title>Casinos bet on success in Tokyo</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Sep 2013 14:06:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Brasor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2020 Games]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[casino]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gambling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[olympics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pachinko]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Most of the Olympics-related news reported since Tokyo won the right to host the 2020 Games is about projected economic benefits and drawbacks. A lot of construction will take place over the next seven years, but not all of it will be directly related to the sporting event. Take casinos, which are suddenly a sure [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nothing is clear about court ruling on illegitimate kids</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Sep 2013 14:04:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Hoffman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[illegitimacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mura hachibu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Supreme Court]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Evidently I was wrong. Two weeks ago in this space, in a passing reference to the unanimous Sept. 4 Supreme Court ruling declaring unconstitutional a Civil Code provision denying full inheritance rights to heirs born out of wedlock, I wrote, &#8220;The rank injustice of discriminating against children born, quite unwittingly, to parents not legally married [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Popular @Horse_ebooks web comic loses its comedic engine</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/28/national/popular-horse_ebooks-web-comic-loses-its-comedic-engine/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=popular-horse_ebooks-web-comic-loses-its-comedic-engine</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Sep 2013 14:02:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Cavna</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[@Horse_ebooks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Horse_eComics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Put enough monkeys in a room with a typewriter, the old theory goes, and they&#8217;ll eventually hunt-and-peck some Shakespeare. But on Tuesday, the wired world learned that a couple of conceptual-art bards had been masking themselves as the equivalent of gibbons, sending seemingly random spam into the Twitterverse. Jacob Bakkila (of Buzzfeed) and Thomas Bender [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brazilian family fights to keep house-trained pet tigers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Sep 2013 14:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Renata Brito</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tiger]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Dan slurped on his pink nursing bottle and spilled milk all over the place, while his brother Tom waited to take a dip in the pool. It would be a typical family scene if not for the fact that Dan and Tom tip the scales at 318 kg, have claws that could slice a person [...]]]></description>
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		<title>After the bid, critics sound off on Olympics</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/21/national/after-the-bid-critics-sound-off-on-olympics/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=after-the-bid-critics-sound-off-on-olympics</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Sep 2013 14:10:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Brasor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2020 Olympics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[During the week following the announcement in Buenos Aires that Tokyo would host the 2020 Olympic Games, the Japanese media was saturated with news of the capital&#8217;s celebratory reaction. NHK, which will broadcast the Games, was particularly enthusiastic, leading every news report with a long Olympic-related item regardless of more pressing stories, such as the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Presenting the up, down and dark sides of &#8216;Gorinnomics&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/21/national/presenting-the-up-down-and-dark-sides-of-gorinnomics/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=presenting-the-up-down-and-dark-sides-of-gorinnomics</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Sep 2013 14:10:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Schreiber</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2020 Olympics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gorinnomics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The weekly magazines&#8217; and tabloids&#8217; reaction to the selection of Tokyo to host the 2020 Olympics reminds one of an oft-quoted remark by Oscar Wilde that goes, &#8220;In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.&#8221; The hosting of the 2020 Games is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Travel shows warp true globalization</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/14/national/travel-shows-warp-true-globalization/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=travel-shows-warp-true-globalization</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Sep 2013 14:16:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Brasor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[internationalization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japanese TV]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[travel shows]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Now that Tokyo has been given the honor of hosting the 2020 Olympic Games, the city, as well as all of Japan, will spend the next seven years &#8220;internationalizing&#8221; (kokusai-ka), a term that becomes fashionable again every few years when something like this happens. Theoretically a circumscribed society can internationalize only once, and the consensus [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japanese media declare &#8216;dark times&#8217; are on us</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/14/national/japanese-media-declare-dark-times-are-on-us/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=japanese-media-declare-dark-times-are-on-us</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Sep 2013 14:14:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Hoffman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Abuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[crime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[enjo kosai]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kure]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Being good has never been easy. And it&#8217;s not getting easier — unlike many things in this age of mass technological empowerment. If it were, presumably, there would be more good and less evil — unless evil is more attractive? The monthly Sapio has dire fears on that score. Japan, it says, is being &#8220;swallowed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NY Times waves off Putin essay concerns</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/14/national/ny-times-waves-off-putin-essay-concerns/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=ny-times-waves-off-putin-essay-concerns</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Sep 2013 14:12:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Vladimir Putin won&#8217;t be getting a check from The New York Times as a &#8220;freelance journalist&#8221; but his controversial article on Syria was accepted for its newsworthy viewpoint. The newspaper&#8217;s public editor Margaret Sullivan said Thursday that the Russian leader&#8217;s editorial, submitted via a U.S. public relations firm, created &#8220;a major stir, including plenty [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The message in recent food-garbage films doesn&#8217;t go to waste</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/07/national/the-message-in-recent-food-garbage-films-doesnt-go-to-waste/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-message-in-recent-food-garbage-films-doesnt-go-to-waste</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Sep 2013 14:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Brasor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[diet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food waste]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mottainai]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taste the Waste]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trashed]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For those who still take in movies at theaters it&#8217;s a great season for garbage, and I&#8217;m not talking about the usual summer blockbuster fare. Last month, Fatih Akin&#8217;s documentary &#8220;Garbage in the Garden of Eden&#8221; (aka &#8220;Polluting Paradise&#8221;), about a landfill project in the beautiful Cambrunu region of Turkey, opened in Tokyo, and later [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s the real story behind &#8216;Emperor&#8217;?</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/07/national/whats-the-real-story-behind-emperor/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=whats-the-real-story-behind-emperor</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Sep 2013 14:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Schreiber</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Emperor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gen. Bonner Fellers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gen. Douglas MacArthur]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[postwar]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Emperor,&#8221; a film directed by Peter Webber that takes up the subject of Emperor Showa and the postwar occupation period, has been showing at local theaters since July. The film&#8217;s protagonist is Gen. Bonner Frank Fellers, who served as a subordinate to Supreme Commander Allied Forces Gen. Douglas MacArthur. Writing in Shukan Shincho (Aug. 29), [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Indian TV channel seeks prospective brides and grooms</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/09/07/tv/indian-tv-channel-seeks-prospective-brides-and-grooms/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=indian-tv-channel-seeks-prospective-brides-and-grooms</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Sep 2013 14:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ammu Kannampilly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anuranjan Jha]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indian TV]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marriage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shagun TV]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shobhaa De]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[India&#8217;s focus on marriage has fuelled an industry worth billions, lining the pockets of everyone from wedding planners to jewellers to astrologers — and now, a new TV channel hopes to cash in. When television producer Anuranjan Jha met his wife through a matrimonial website 12 years ago, he came up with what he describes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Media must take a stand against trolls</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/31/national/media-must-take-a-stand-against-trolls/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=media-must-take-a-stand-against-trolls</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Aug 2013 14:28:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Brasor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[anti-nuclear]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bullying]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[right-wing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[troll]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We live in an age of contention, when any comment can spark righteous indignation. Nominally conservative or progressive viewpoints become meaningless when every response is reactionary. This situation supposedly arose along with the Internet, which provides an unmediated outlet for every voice. Traditional media insisted on readers and viewers providing certifiable identification before printing or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan&#8217;s nuclear comedy just goes on and on</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/31/national/japans-nuclear-comedy-just-goes-on-and-on/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=japans-nuclear-comedy-just-goes-on-and-on</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Aug 2013 14:26:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jake Adelstein</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fukushima No. 1]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nuclear power plant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tepco]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tsunehisa Katsumata]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. — Ecclesiastes 1:9 These words are said to have been penned by King Solomon around 3,000 years ago. Perhaps they were an augury of Japan&#8217;s nuclear industry. I&#8217;m sure somewhere there&#8217;s an original text [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Married or single, Japan is a desolate country</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/31/national/married-or-single-japan-is-a-desolate-country/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=married-or-single-japan-is-a-desolate-country</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Aug 2013 14:24:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Hoffman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[marriage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sex]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sex disgust syndrome]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[society]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The past century is a history of sexual distortion,&#8221; social psychologist Hiroyoshi Ishikawa told Time Magazine in 1983. &#8220;A small portion of young people in Japan are sexually very, very active,&#8221; he added, &#8220;while the vast majority are sexually repressed.&#8221; What would he say if he surveyed the scene today? Probably that not much has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To J.D. Salinger, new book would likely seem a hit below the belt</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/31/national/to-j-d-salinger-new-book-would-likely-seem-a-hit-below-the-belt/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=to-j-d-salinger-new-book-would-likely-seem-a-hit-below-the-belt</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Aug 2013 14:22:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jen Chaney</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[David Shields]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[J.D. Salinger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Salinger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shane Salerno]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[J.D. Salinger would hate this. He would hate that there&#8217;s a soon-to-be-released book called &#8220;Salinger&#8221; that&#8217;s positively thick with previously unreleased photos, interviews and correspondence designed to fling open the windows on, arguably, the most famous American recluse in history. He would hate that the release Tuesday of this 600-plus-page oral biography of the author [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It only takes one &#8216;Barefoot&#8217; step to cross the line into censorship</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/24/national/it-only-takes-one-barefoot-step-to-cross-the-line-into-censorship/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=it-only-takes-one-barefoot-step-to-cross-the-line-into-censorship</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Aug 2013 14:14:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Brasor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[anti-child-pornography law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barefoot Gen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[censorship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[child abuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[child pornography]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you want people to pay attention to a point you&#8217;re making, try to bring the subject of children into the debate. Right now, the media is discussing a decision made by the board of education of Matsue, Shimane Prefecture, to limit student access to the manga &#8220;Hadashi no Gen (Barefoot Gen),&#8221; first published in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chilling tales are tops when trying to beat the heat</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/24/national/chilling-tales-are-tops-when-trying-to-beat-the-heat/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=chilling-tales-are-tops-when-trying-to-beat-the-heat</link>
		<comments>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/24/national/chilling-tales-are-tops-when-trying-to-beat-the-heat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Aug 2013 14:12:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>By Mark Schreiber</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ghost stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ghost story]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yotsuya Kaidan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps stemming from the belief that hearing a scary story will send a chill down the spine and provide welcome relief from the summer heat, August is Japan&#8217;s favorite season for traditional tales of horror. At local festivals and in theme parks, the obake yashiki (haunted house) is a standby for dating couples. A few [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stone weighs in on Japanese defense</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/17/national/stone-weighs-in-on-japanese-defense/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=stone-weighs-in-on-japanese-defense</link>
		<comments>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/17/national/stone-weighs-in-on-japanese-defense/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Aug 2013 14:14:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Brasor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Article 9]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oliver Stone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Self Defense Forces]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shinzo Abe]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s August, when the Japanese media&#8217;s attention turns to peace, or, at least, the absence of war. The anniversaries of the atomic bombings and subsequent surrender occasion print and broadcast discussions of what Japan learned from its bloody mid-century military campaign. For most people the fact that the country has enjoyed stability and prosperity since [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cyber-kids get a break during Bon holidays</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/17/national/cyber-kids-get-a-break-during-bon-holidays/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=cyber-kids-get-a-break-during-bon-holidays</link>
		<comments>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/17/national/cyber-kids-get-a-break-during-bon-holidays/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Aug 2013 14:12:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Hoffman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cyberspace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[enjo kosai]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Internet addiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[o-Bon youth issues]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You didn&#8217;t need prophetic powers, back in the 1980s when the personal computer was starting to show its potential, to foresee something like Internet addiction. It should have been obvious. It was, to science-fiction writer William Gibson. Reminiscing to Time magazine in 1995, he recalled his shock, as he walked by a video-game arcade sometime [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gillette advertising campaign touts hairlessness as the new macho</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/17/national/gillette-advertising-campaign-touts-hairlessness-as-the-new-macho/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=gillette-advertising-campaign-touts-hairlessness-as-the-new-macho</link>
		<comments>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/17/national/gillette-advertising-campaign-touts-hairlessness-as-the-new-macho/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Aug 2013 14:10:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Farhi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[gender issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gillette]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kate Upton]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Pouty supermodel No. 1 says she likes a man with a little hair on his chest, &#8220;but definitely not on his back.&#8221; Pouty supermodel No. 2 likes a man with a smooth stomach &#8220;to show off his six-pack,&#8221; according to the unidentified narrator who apparently speaks for her. She winks in agreement. And pouty supermodel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Koda&#8217;s baby gaffe may find different reception now</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/10/national/kodas-baby-gaffe-may-find-different-reception-now/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=kodas-baby-gaffe-may-find-different-reception-now</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Aug 2013 14:18:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Brasor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[fertility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[in vitro]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kumi Koda]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Five years ago, singer Kumi Koda caused an uproar when she joked on a late-night radio show about how a woman&#8217;s amniotic fluid (yōsui) becomes &#8220;spoiled&#8221; as she gets older. The subtext of the comment was the advantage of having babies at a younger age, but those quick to ridicule Koda&#8217;s lack of gynecological expertise [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Haiku killings&#8217; recall infamous horror story</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/10/national/haiku-killings-recall-infamous-horror-story/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=haiku-killings-recall-infamous-horror-story</link>
		<comments>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/10/national/haiku-killings-recall-infamous-horror-story/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Aug 2013 14:16:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Schreiber</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[crime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Haiku killings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kosei Homi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mutsuo Toi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shunan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yatsuhaka Mura]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Mitake, a tiny mountain hamlet located in eastern Yamaguchi Prefecture, is administrated as part of the city of Shunan (pop. 150,000). The area is so remote, cell phones don&#8217;t always receive signals there. On the night of July 21, according to news reports, two houses were completely destroyed by fire. Inside were the bodies of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>YouTube videos hold a sliver of hope for future elections</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/03/national/youtube-videos-hold-a-sliver-of-hope/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=youtube-videos-hold-a-sliver-of-hope</link>
		<comments>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/03/national/youtube-videos-hold-a-sliver-of-hope/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Aug 2013 14:07:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Brasor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Shinzo Abe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taro Yamamoto]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[YouTube]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[During the recent campaign for the Upper House, a YouTube video emerged revealing the ruling Liberal Democratic Party&#8217;s attitude toward the electorate. A woman attending a rally in Fukushima by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe carried a placard that asked the LDP leader his stance on the nuclear energy controversy. LDP security confronted her and said [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is new yakuza journal good news for Japan?</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/03/national/is-new-yakuza-journal-good-news-for-japan/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=is-new-yakuza-journal-good-news-for-japan</link>
		<comments>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/03/national/is-new-yakuza-journal-good-news-for-japan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Aug 2013 14:05:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jake Adelstein</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Kazuo Taoka]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ken Takakura]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shinobu Tsukasa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tadamasa Goto]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yamaguchi-gumi]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re a well-connected Japanese gangster, you now have your own newspaper to keep you abreast of underworld life. Another perk of the job. Japan&#8217;s yakuza are a different lot. They have office buildings, business cards, fanzines, tight control over the entertainment industry &#8212; and considerable political influence. In October last year, Minister of Justice [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Closet traditionalists still populate a supposedly single moms&#8217; world</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/03/national/closet-traditionalists-still-populate-a-supposedly-single-moms-world/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=closet-traditionalists-still-populate-a-supposedly-single-moms-world</link>
		<comments>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/03/national/closet-traditionalists-still-populate-a-supposedly-single-moms-world/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Aug 2013 14:05:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Hoffman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[birth rates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[single mothers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Every day some 370,000 babies are born worldwide. Of those born on July 22, 2013, 369,999 went unnoticed outside their immediate circles. The exception was a royal prince, third in line to the British throne. His first photos show him blissfully unaware of the vast excitement he was causing. He&#8217;ll come to know of it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NHK drama dives into the &#8216;idea&#8217; of idols in rural Japan</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/27/national/nhk-drama-dives-into-the-idea-of-idols-in-rural-japan/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=nhk-drama-dives-into-the-idea-of-idols-in-rural-japan</link>
		<comments>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/27/national/nhk-drama-dives-into-the-idea-of-idols-in-rural-japan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jul 2013 14:20:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Brasor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ama divers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asa-dora]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[idols]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kyoko Koizumi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NHK]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rena Nonen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yui Hashimoto]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When it was announced last year that entertainment Renaissance man Kankuro Kudo would write the script for NHK&#8217;s spring-summer 2013 &#8220;TV novel,&#8221; a few people probably wondered how the iconoclastic writer-director-actor would respond to the broadcaster&#8217;s narrative strictures. In a recent interview with Aera, Kudo said that he writes what he wants to write, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tight budgets, food safety and eel inflation</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/27/national/tight-budgets-food-safety-and-eel-inflation/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=tight-budgets-food-safety-and-eel-inflation</link>
		<comments>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/27/national/tight-budgets-food-safety-and-eel-inflation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jul 2013 14:18:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Schreiber</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The future promise of Abenomics notwithstanding, Japan&#8217;s white-collar office workers are still being squeezed in terms of their discretionary spending. Results of the annual survey of salaryman kozukai (allowance), released June 28 by Shinsei Bank, noted that this year the average monthly spending money fell from 2012 by &#165;1,299 to &#165;38,457, making it the second [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ando&#8217;s joy brings up an old taboo</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/20/national/andos-joy-brings-up-an-old-taboo/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=andos-joy-brings-up-an-old-taboo</link>
		<comments>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/20/national/andos-joy-brings-up-an-old-taboo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jul 2013 14:14:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Brasor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[illegitimate child]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Miki Ando]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Miki Ando's baby]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The morning after TV Asahi&#8217;s evening news show &#8220;Hodo Station&#8221; ran an interview with figure skater Miki Ando on July 1, the media was buzzing over the revelation that Ando had given birth in April. The baby was not the ostensible reason for the interview, which focused on her athletic activities, and the way Ando [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan&#8217;s weeklies debate modern man&#8217;s burden</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/20/national/japans-weeklies-debate-modern-mans-burden/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=japans-weeklies-debate-modern-mans-burden</link>
		<comments>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/20/national/japans-weeklies-debate-modern-mans-burden/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jul 2013 14:12:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Hoffman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[reverse power harassment]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Pity the declining male in an age of expanding female empowerment! True, he has only himself to blame. For centuries, millennia, man lorded over woman, subjecting her to every indignity, reducing her to servitude, denying her full membership in the community of human beings. Now the shoe is on the other foot, or on the [...]]]></description>
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