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	<title>The Japan Times &#187; Social Issues</title>
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		<title>Aichi police system aids child-rearing female officers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Aug 2013 13:12:30 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[police]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[women]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A new system introduced by the Aichi Prefectural Police allows two officers returning to work after child care leave to share a single post so that female officers raising children won&#8217;t feel ashamed if they can&#8217;t work overtime or be on night duty. The system makes it easier for officers with young children to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Film depicts Okinawans&#8217; fight against Ospreys</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/12/national/film-depicts-okinawans-fight-against-ospreys/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=film-depicts-okinawans-fight-against-ospreys</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Aug 2013 13:01:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mika Kurokawa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[documentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Okinawa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ospreys]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[U.S. bases]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The Targeted Village,&#8221; a documentary on the fight by Okinawa residents against the deployment of MV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor transport aircraft at the Futenma air base, is showing in Tokyo theaters. Released Saturday, the 91-minute film is based on an award-winning TV program produced by Chie Mikami for an Okinawa station in 2012. It focuses on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poll: 6,721 teachers hit pupils last year</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/10/national/6721-teachers-across-japan-used-corporal-punishment/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=6721-teachers-across-japan-used-corporal-punishment</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Aug 2013 10:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[corporal punishment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education Ministry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[teachers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The 2012 academic year saw 6,721 teachers at 4,152 schools nationwide use corporal punishment on 14,208 students, 20 percent of whom suffered some form of injury, an education ministry survey shows. Earlier this year, and for the first time, the ministry ordered a comprehensive survey on corporal punishment covering not only public but also national [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rallies dent business in Koreatown</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/04/national/rallies-dent-business-in-koreatown/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=rallies-dent-business-in-koreatown</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Aug 2013 14:01:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daisuke Sato</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ethnic Koreans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hate speech]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Okubo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[xenophobia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ultranationalist rallies targeted at residents and businesses in the capital&#8217;s Koreatown district have cast a dark shadow over the once-thriving area. Sales at a Korean restaurant in the area, just east of Shin-Okubo Station on the JR Yamanote Line, have already been halved, said owner Kim Doc Ho. Kim, who came to Japan 29 years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Study: 8.1% of Japan secondary school students may be &#8216;Internet addicts&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Aug 2013 14:31:03 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Internet addiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[secondary school students]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A government panel says that 8.1 percent of around 100,000 junior high and high school students polled nationwide are suspected of being “Internet addicts.”]]></description>
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		<title>Over 66,000 cases of child abuse seen in &#8217;12</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/25/national/over-66000-cases-of-child-abuse-seen-in-12/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=over-66000-cases-of-child-abuse-seen-in-12</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jul 2013 10:52:35 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[child abuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[domestic violence]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Child consultation centers dealt with 66,807 child abuse cases in fiscal 2012, exceeding 60,000 for the first time since the tally started in fiscal 1990.]]></description>
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		<title>OECD urges Japan to raise female employment</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/17/national/oecd-urges-japan-to-raise-female-employment/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=oecd-urges-japan-to-raise-female-employment</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jul 2013 14:05:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[female employment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OECD]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Japan should work to increase employment opportunities for women as it&#8217;s working-age population dwindles, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development reiterated. In the Employment Outlook 2013 report released Tuesday, the OECD said the average jobless rate among its 34 member nations stood at 8.0 percent as of April, down only 0.5 percentage point from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Politicians silent on curbing hate speech</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/10/national/politicians-silent-on-curbing-hate-speech/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=politicians-silent-on-curbing-hate-speech</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jul 2013 14:20:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Johnston</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[hate speech]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Koreans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[right-wingers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shinzo Abe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[xenophibia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zaitokukai]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Calls in the Diet for legislation to curb hate speech targeting foreign residents of Japan are being made even as the issue barely registers on the campaign trail for the July 21 Upper House poll.  ]]></description>
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		<title>Empowerment key in lifting birthrate: U.N.</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/10/national/empowerment-key-in-lifting-birthrate-u-n/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=empowerment-key-in-lifting-birthrate-u-n</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jul 2013 13:59:16 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Babatunde Osotimehin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[empowerment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United Nations Population Fund]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[women]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Japan needs to empower females in the workplace and promote male participation in child-rearing in order to address its falling birthrate, the head of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) said. &#8220;If they (women), for instance, leave to go and have a baby, they don&#8217;t lose promotion, they don&#8217;t lose anything, and then when they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan suffered 14,192 suicides from January to June</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/09/national/japan-suffered-14192-suicides-from-january-to-june/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=japan-suffered-14192-suicides-from-january-to-june</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jul 2013 14:34:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[National Police Agency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[statistics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[suicides]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The number of suicides across the nation from January to June fell slightly to 14,192, the National Police Agency said in a preliminary report Tuesday. The figure was 102 fewer than in the first half of 2012, when the annual number of suicides fell below 30,000 for the first time in 15 years. In the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>METI to set up forum on nuclear waste disposal</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/06/national/meti-to-set-up-forum-on-nuclear-waste-disposal/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=meti-to-set-up-forum-on-nuclear-waste-disposal</link>
		<comments>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/06/national/meti-to-set-up-forum-on-nuclear-waste-disposal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jul 2013 13:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[disposal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[forum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nuclear waste]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A working group from an industry ministry panel has decided to set up a forum for discussing issues related to the disposal of spent nuclear fuel. The new forum will be composed of Cabinet ministers and local government leaders, according to the plan revealed Friday by the group from the ministry&#8217;s Advisory Committee for Natural [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Number of elderly households in Japan hits record high in 2012</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/04/national/number-of-elderly-households-in-japan-hits-record-high-in-2012/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=number-of-elderly-households-in-japan-hits-record-high-in-2012</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jul 2013 14:10:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[aging society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[elderly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[households]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The number of elderly households marked a record high of 10,241,000 in 2012, a government survey showed Thursday, another sign of the graying of Japanese society. The figure accounted for 21.3 percent of households in Japan, according to the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry. The previous record high of 10,207,000 was recorded in 2010, based [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Former Thai sex slave decries visa-free entry to Japan</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/03/national/former-thai-sex-slave-decries-visa-free-entry-to-japan/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=former-thai-sex-slave-decries-visa-free-entry-to-japan</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jul 2013 14:04:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chananthorn Kamjan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[human trafficking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[prostitutes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thailand]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[visa-free entry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A Thai woman who spent several months in Japan as a sex slave in the early 2000s said in a recent interview she fears visa-free entry for short-term Thai tourists to Japan could be a double-edged sword. The woman, who declined to be named, recounted her own ordeal at the hands of human traffickers, adding [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anti-Korean group&#8217;s plea to use public facility nixed</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/06/29/national/anti-korean-groups-plea-to-use-public-facility-nixed/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=anti-korean-groups-plea-to-use-public-facility-nixed</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jun 2013 15:02:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[anti-Korean group]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yamagata Prefecture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yamagata Prefecture has turned down a request from anti-Korean activists to use a public building for a meeting. The prefectural government said it &#8220;made the decision from a comprehensive standpoint based on administrative requirements for the facility and (the group) was not turned down because of its ideas or creed.&#8221; The Zainichi Tokken wo Yurusanai [...]]]></description>
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		<title>20% of young fathers put in 60-hour weeks</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/06/25/national/20-of-young-fathers-put-in-60-hour-weeks/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=20-of-young-fathers-put-in-60-hour-weeks</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jun 2013 11:43:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[birth rate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Child care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[white paper]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Nearly 20 percent of male employees in their 30s work more than 60 hours a week, making it difficult for them to participate in raising children, a 2013 government white paper on dealing with the low birthrate shows.]]></description>
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		<title>Project prods jobless young to test strengths</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/06/21/national/project-prods-jobless-young-to-test-strengths/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=project-prods-jobless-young-to-test-strengths</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jun 2013 15:06:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomohiro Osaki</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[jobless]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NEETs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unemployed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[youths]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yujun Wakashin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Only two years after establishing a company in 2005, young entrepreneur Yujun Wakashin found himself in an unexpected predicament: his co-founder and employees ganged up on him, ousting him from his own firm. Was there disagreement over management policies? No. It was because Wakashin, a self-declared nonconformist, refused to change his long, dyed-brown hair that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nippon Life to dads of babies: Take care leave</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/06/20/national/nippon-life-to-dads-of-babies-take-care-leave/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=nippon-life-to-dads-of-babies-take-care-leave</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jun 2013 10:57:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hiroko Nakata</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nippon Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[paternity leave]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In a rare step for a major Japanese firm, Nippon Life Insurance will begin requiring all its male employees who have babies to take at least one week of paternity leave.]]></description>
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		<title>Dilemma: How to shed white elephants&#8217; red ink?</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/06/20/national/dilemma-how-to-shed-white-elephants-red-ink/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=dilemma-how-to-shed-white-elephants-red-ink</link>
		<comments>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/06/20/national/dilemma-how-to-shed-white-elephants-red-ink/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:07:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kazuaki Nagata</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[growth strategy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PFI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shinzo Abe]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is pushing for an alternative type of public works project that allows private-sector entities to finance, construct and then operate infrastructure facilities.]]></description>
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		<title>Lofty educational ideal: Ability to prevail on global stage</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/06/19/national/lofty-educational-ideal-ability-to-prevail-on-global-stage/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=lofty-educational-ideal-ability-to-prevail-on-global-stage</link>
		<comments>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/06/19/national/lofty-educational-ideal-ability-to-prevail-on-global-stage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:07:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Masaaki Kameda</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[growth strategy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shinzo Abe]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Universities are starting to try out all sorts of new and innovative ways for Japan to develop human resources capable of "prevailing on the world stage."]]></description>
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		<title>Robot niche expands in senior care</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/06/19/national/robot-niche-expands-in-senior-care/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=robot-niche-expands-in-senior-care</link>
		<comments>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/06/19/national/robot-niche-expands-in-senior-care/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:04:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mai Iida</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[aging society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nursing care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[robots]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shinzo Abe]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Given Japan&#8217;s rapidly aging population, efforts are accelerating to devise more practical and affordable robots to help seniors handle daily tasks, as well as to cope with a projected shortage of caregivers. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe&#8217;s government has allocated ¥2.39 billion in the fiscal 2013 budget to assist the development of such robots and increase [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Suicide rate of people in 20s alarms</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/06/19/national/suicide-rate-of-people-in-20s-alarms/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=suicide-rate-of-people-in-20s-alarms</link>
		<comments>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/06/19/national/suicide-rate-of-people-in-20s-alarms/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[suicide]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With suicide behind nearly half of all deaths for those in their 20s, the government appealed Tuesday in a white paper for assistance to be ramped up for young people struggling with employment and other problems. The 2013 white paper on suicide, adopted at a Cabinet meeting Tuesday, said 27,858 people committed suicide last year, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maternity leave, day care still elude many working mothers</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/06/18/national/maternity-leave-day-care-still-elude/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=maternity-leave-day-care-still-elude</link>
		<comments>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/06/18/national/maternity-leave-day-care-still-elude/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:14:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ayako Mie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[day care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[growth strategy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[women]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Like many full-time working mothers in Japan, Eriko Soyama, 36, had a tough time getting her children into day care to continue her career.]]></description>
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		<title>Yokohama day care centers scramble to keep kids off waiting lists</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/06/18/national/day-care-centers-scramble-to-keep-yokohama-kids-off-lists/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=day-care-centers-scramble-to-keep-yokohama-kids-off-lists</link>
		<comments>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/06/18/national/day-care-centers-scramble-to-keep-yokohama-kids-off-lists/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:10:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mami Maruko</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[day care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[growth stragegy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yokohama]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the shadow of an imposing highway bypass in Yokohama, laughter and excited voices mingle in the small playground of a day care center attended by 52 children no older than 5.]]></description>
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		<title>Court backs convention of picking one surname</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/05/30/national/court-backs-convention-of-picking-one-surname/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=court-backs-convention-of-picking-one-surname</link>
		<comments>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/05/30/national/court-backs-convention-of-picking-one-surname/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2013 15:09:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[surnames]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Tokyo District Court rejects a damages suit filed against the state by five people who claim a Civil Code article that forces married couples to choose a single surname contravenes the Constitution. ]]></description>
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		<title>Judo federation probes exec&#8217;s alleged sexual misdeed against female athlete</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/05/24/national/judo-federation-probes-execs-alleged-sexual-misdeed-against-female-athlete/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=judo-federation-probes-execs-alleged-sexual-misdeed-against-female-athlete</link>
		<comments>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/05/24/national/judo-federation-probes-execs-alleged-sexual-misdeed-against-female-athlete/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 15:07:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Abuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[female judoka]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[harassment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[judo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[scandal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sexual advances]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The All Japan Judo Federation is probing allegations that a top female judoka was the target of an inappropriate sexual advance in December 2011 by a director of the body. Former Olympic silver medalist judoka Noriko Mizoguchi said Thursday that the female judoka, whose name was not released, claimed that the director, also unnamed, tried [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nationalism rearing ugly head with greater frequency</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/05/23/national/nationalism-rearing-ugly-head-with-greater-frequency/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=nationalism-rearing-ugly-head-with-greater-frequency</link>
		<comments>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/05/23/national/nationalism-rearing-ugly-head-with-greater-frequency/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 15:05:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomohiro Osaki</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[hate speech]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Korean residents in Japan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shinokubo]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Angry protesters took to the streets Sunday in Tokyo's Shin-Okubo district, home to many Korean shops and restaurants, describing the Korean residents there as "cockroaches" and calling for their immediate "extermination."]]></description>
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		<title>Visa violators stage sit-in to stay</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/05/21/national/visa-violators-stage-sit-in-to-stay/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=visa-violators-stage-sit-in-to-stay</link>
		<comments>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/05/21/national/visa-violators-stage-sit-in-to-stay/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 15:17:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomohiro Osaki</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[illegal overstayers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sit-in]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Visa violators kick off a five-day protest at the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau to protest plans to deport overstayers en masse on planes.]]></description>
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		<title>Incentives needed to lure students to U.S., experts say</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/05/19/national/incentives-needed-to-lure-students-to-u-s-experts-say/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=incentives-needed-to-lure-students-to-u-s-experts-say</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 15:05:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Masaaki Kameda</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CULCOM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[symposium]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[U.S. Japan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Incentives are needed to reverse the decline in Japanese enrollment at U.S. universities as Japanese companies compete harder and earlier to recruit new graduates, experts said at a symposium. &#8220;They need clear incentives and encouragement from the government, academia, the media and private enterprise. They need to know their investment in global skills will be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. tells Japan to address child abductions but balks at sanctions</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/05/11/national/u-s-tells-japan-to-address-child-abductions-but-balks-at-sanctions/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=u-s-tells-japan-to-address-child-abductions-but-balks-at-sanctions</link>
		<comments>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/05/11/national/u-s-tells-japan-to-address-child-abductions-but-balks-at-sanctions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 15:14:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[child abduction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Hague Convention]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. State Department called Thursday for Japan to take action on child abductions but rejected lawmakers&#8217; calls to pose the threat of sanctions to force action on one of the allies&#8217; few open disputes. Hundreds of non-Japanese parents, mostly men from the United States and elsewhere, have lost access to their children as their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abe&#8217;s child care proposal draws fire from companies</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/05/05/national/abes-child-care-proposal-draws-fire-from-companies/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=abes-child-care-proposal-draws-fire-from-companies</link>
		<comments>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/05/05/national/abes-child-care-proposal-draws-fire-from-companies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2013 10:58:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yumiko Iida</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[child-care leave]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shinzo Abe]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Prime Minister Abe's proposal to expand child care leave to three years is upsetting some firms because it runs against current programs designed to support working parents.]]></description>
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