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	<title>The Japan Times &#187; JAPAN TIMES GONE BY</title>
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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>Sumida River swimmers, brides for Manchoukuo, driving chaos, PM&#8217;s Recruit incident remarks</title>
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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>Tokyo homeless, Olympics cancelled, medals given for kindness, Mandela&#8217;s birthday feted</title>
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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>
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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>Taiwan&#8217;s last native tribe, carrier-pigeon trumps train, STEP test launched, rock album nixed for anti-nuke lyrics</title>
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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>Hibiya Park illuminations, Japan’s first mosque, ‘Vigorous’ Mount Fuji stymies relocation, minister resigns over war-guilt denial</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 15:10:31 +0000</pubDate>
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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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		<title>Anti-Alien Bill protested, controlling the Western Pacific, Daibutsu climbers arrested, land prices soar</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2013 15:01:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edan Corkill</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[100 YEARS AGO Tuesday, April 8, 1913 Japan protests U.S. state&#8217;s &#8216;anti-aliens&#8217; bill A New York dispatch of April 5 says that, in regard to the bill before the California Legislature prohibiting aliens ineligible for citizenship from owning land and holding a lease, Viscount (Sutemi) Chinda, Japanese ambassador at Washington, presented an unofficial protest to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yokohama conflagration, National Mobilization Bill debated, mines removed, five-day working week achieved</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Mar 2013 15:26:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edan Corkill</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[100 YEARS AGOSaturday, March 8, 1913 Yokohama conflagration Another big fire swept through Yokohama early yesterday morning, resulting in the destruction of about 300 houses. It originated on the premises of Magosaku Nishioka in Fukutomi-cho [now part of Naka-ku] about half-past three when it was blowing a gale. The flames spread with great rapidity and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tokyo Station nears completion, Hitler lauds Japan, high-schools surge, Constitution to keep Article 9, PM declares</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2013 15:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edan Corkill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[100 YEARS AGO Sunday, Feb. 2, 1913 Tokyo Central station nears completion The Tokyo Central Railway Station, now under construction at Eiraku-cho, Kojimachi Ward [a now-defunct ward spanning much of present-day Chiyoda Ward], will, when completed next year, make one of the finest structures of the metropolis. The station is expected to be ready for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Man survives train fall, redistribution of resources Japan&#8217;s mission, GSDF adopts local guns, chandelier falls</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2013 10:45:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edan Corkill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[100 YEARS AGO Wednesday, Jan. 29, 1913 Man survives train fall Tamejiro Kawai, aged 48, a milk-hall keeper in Yamashita-cho, Yokohama, while going by rail from Tokyo to Yokohama a little after midnight Jan. 27, fell between the cars. A by-stander sounded the alarm, the engineer stopped the train, and an examination was made. Upon [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coal mine explosion, Nanking falls, economy grows 14 percent, whalers depart despite protests</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Dec 2012 00:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edan Corkill</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[100 YEARS AGOWednesday, Dec. 25, 1912 Hokkaido mine blast &#8216;has killed hundreds&#8217; A part of the Mount Yubari coal mine in Hokkaido exploded at 10 a.m. Monday, possibly trapping up to 238 workers. The explosion area covers about (37,000 sq. meters) and yields about 1,300 tons of coal a day. The gallery of the mine [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Democrats win, Italy joins anti-Red pact, Takeshima blocks Japan-ROK accord, Sony buys CBS Records</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Nov 2012 00:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[100 YEARS AGOFriday, Nov. 4, 1912 Great Democratic victory in U.S. Ever since Colonel (Theodore) Roosevelt split the Republican Party, and the Democrats at Baltimore chose Dr. (Woodrow) Wilson for their presidential nominee, it was apparent to all unbiased observers that the Democratic candidate would prevail. Colonel Roosevelt&#8217;s vigorous campaigning, his magnetic personality, along with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The colonial exposition, Japan branded &#8220;aggressor nation,&#8221; Cuban missile crisis, Black Monday stock market crash</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Oct 2012 00:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edan Corkill</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[100 YEARS AGOThursday, Oct. 3, 1912 Crowds flock to Tokyo Colonial Exposition Despite rainy weather yesterday, the Colonial Exposition at Ueno [in central Tokyo] was visited by an enormous number of people, who thronged in and about the building to enjoy the queer objects. The precious treasures of Prince Yi of Chosen [Korea] are in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Man eats dynamite, fighting intensifies in Shanghai, Tokyo may allow skyscrapers, Michael Jackson in Japan</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Sep 2012 00:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edan Corkill</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[100 YEARS AGO Wednesday, Sept. 4, 1912 Anyone for dynamite? A correspondent reports from Nagano that the magazine of Shiokawa, a powder-maker in Komoro in that prefecture, was broken into and had 600 sticks of dynamite stolen lately. The police arrested Kosaburo Sato, of Minamioi, who confessed that he stole the sticks of dynamite and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The new Emperor&#8217;s character, China conflict escalates, eruptions on Miyakejima Is.,  JET program takes off</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Aug 2012 00:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[100 YEARS AGOSaturday, Aug. 3, 1912 Characteristics of the new Emperor The new Sovereign Emperor Yoshihito [who succeeded to the throne on July 30, 1912, and was posthumously known as Taisho], it is said, has many of the qualities of his lately deceased father, and many characteristics of his own, as was to be expected [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Titanic survivor&#8217;s tale; a whaler&#8217;s arrival; Osaka-Tokyo in half the time; early cases of AIDS</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jun 2012 00:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[100 YEARS AGOTuesday, June 4, 1912 Titanic&#8217;s sole Japanese passenger describes his lucky leap for life On board the T.K.K. liner Shinyo, which reached Yokohama yesterday afternoon, was Mr. Masabumi Hosono, Vice-Councilor of the Railway Board, a survivor of the Titanic disaster &#8212; the only Japanese, as reported, who was on the ill-fated vessel. He [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Back from Antarctica, Hindenburg disaster, Joban Line trains derail, Issey Miyake men&#8217;s collection in Japan</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 00:02:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[100 YEARS AGO Friday, May 17, 1912 Back from Antarctica Imperial Army Lt. Nobu Shirase and four members of his Antarctic expedition returned to Yokohama yesterday aboard the N.Y.K. Nikko Maru. Among a quantity of things he brought with him were Antarctic fishes, seabirds, other scientific specimens and data. The lieutenant told the Japan Times [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Titanic disaster, cherry trees sent to Washington D.C., &#8220;Sunflowers&#8221; fetches record price at auction</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2012 00:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[100 YEARS AGOFriday, April 19, 1912 The most appalling disaster at sea Reuters news agency, in its second report on the wreck of the Titanic, called the disaster that befell the great floating city &#8220;the most appalling on record.&#8221; There is no longer any doubt that this accurately describes what happened in the early hours [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Frog battles carp, indignant seamen strike, Roppongi the new night-life hub, passive-smoking case stubbed out</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2012 00:02:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[100 YEARS AGOTuesday, March 15, 1912 Frog fights carp for pond croaking rights Frogs are reputedly contentious by nature, and a slight provocation may lead to a bitter feud. But it is seldom that these homey creatures wage war with members of other tribes. It seemed a unique spectacle, therefore, that a carp about 45 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chinese emperor abdicates, Italians to preserve hara-kiri site, Tokyo&#8217;s population hits 10 million, Japan supports space station</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2012 00:01:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[100 YEARS AGOWednesday, Feb. 14, 1912 Chinese Emperor abdicates The abdication of the Emperor of China, daily expected for a week, has at last taken place. The Emperor, in his decree issued on the 12th, narrates the steps which led up to the present crisis &#8212; the uprising of the revolutionary armies, the peace conference [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anniversary of Korean annexation, &#8220;harakiri&#8221; row halts Diet, Socialist Party-China communique, Kyoto Journal debuts</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 00:02:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[100 YEARS AGOSunday, Jan. 7, 1912 One-year anniversary of Korea annexation Probably no year in the last decade or so has passed so quietly in Korea as did 1911. And the best part was that the tranquility was not that of gagged silence under drastic repression, but a tranquility with every evidence of contentment and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Revolution in China, anti-communist campaign, a different brew of b&#299;ru, Takeshi Gundan under arrest</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 00:01:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[100 YEARS AGOTuesday, Dec. 12, 1911 Eyewitness report on revolution in China Mr. Iogi, a member of the Pacific Association who was recently sent to China to investigate the revolution apparently under way there, returned on the 6th and made a report. The substance is as follows: The revolutionary atmosphere was everywhere he traveled, in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Train-shame death, anti-Comintern pact signed, Tokyo &#8220;paralyzed,&#8221; Japan and U.S. to halt yen rise against dollar</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2011 00:02:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[100 YEARS AGOSaturday, Nov. 25, 1911 Train-shame death moves the Emperor On the occasion of the recent trip of the Emperor to Kyushu, a slight railway accident took place at Moji Station (in Fukuoka Prefecture), which caused about an hour&#8217;s delay in the departure of the Court train from that station. Soon after, Shozaburo Shimizu, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Men marrying later, the new Diet building opens, grenade causes plane scare</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2011 00:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[100 YEARS AGOThursday, Oct. 26, 1911 Young men marrying later; women same A statement issued by the Bureau of Statistics gives an interesting view of society in modern Japan. Marriage was formerly contracted at a youthful age in this country, but this is no longer the case. As in European countries, the high cost of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Navy on alert in Shanghai, Japanese actor lauded, nuclear arms race, world&#8217;s best-selling computer</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Sep 2011 00:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[75 YEARS AGOFriday, Sept. 25, 1936 Navy to protect Japanese in Shanghai An important instruction was dispatched to the Commander of the Third Squadron this morning concerning the steps to be taken for the protection of life and property of Japanese residents in China. Receiving the news of the attack Tuesday night on Japanese sailors [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The 1940 Olympics, decreased rice consumption results in improved health, nuclear power perceptions unchanged by Chernobyl</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Aug 2011 00:02:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[75 YEARS AGOSunday, Aug. 2, 1936 Tokyo gets IOC nod for 1940 Olympics All Japan is rejoicing today over the decision of the International Olympic Committee to award the 12th Olympic Games to the city of Tokyo. The vote was held in Berlin, where the 11th Olympic Games have just started. Japan&#8217;s winning of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Imperial work ethic; Electric Society&#8217;s defiance; the &#8216;Flat Tire Bandit&#8217;; the state of AIDS</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jul 2011 00:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[100 YEARS AGOThursday, July 20, 1911 The Emperor&#8217;s labors Despite the excessive heat of these days, H.M. the Emperor is said to be enjoying excellent health and the best of spirits. His Majesty is assiduous in attending to State affairs demanding his attention, and every day he is always out at the Court from 9 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The national sport; State to take over electric power firms; flooding kills 235; concerns over Chernobyl accident</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jun 2011 00:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[100 YEARS AGOSaturday, June 19, 1911 The national sport Today the summer wrestling season opens at the Kokugikan in Ryogoku, Tokyo. For 10 days, the capital will have the delight of seeing the national sport exhibited at its best by the country&#8217;s greatest champions. We call sumo the national sport for none other is so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Double tragedy, questions about February 26 Incident, new &#8216;merry-go-round&#8217; carpark, Prince Charles and Lady Di visit</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 May 2011 00:01:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edan Corkill</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[100 YEARS AGOFriday, May 5, 1911 Man&#8217;s suicide leads to another&#8217;s death A middle-aged man was found dead in his room at the Koyo-kan Inn in Yodobashi (now West Shinjuku, Tokyo) Wednesday, apparently having committed suicide by cutting his throat with a short sword. With the aid of clues furnished by his belongings, police identified [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yoshiwara fire, war and foreign ministers start weekly meetings, intellectuals on dope, Japan offers to help at Chernobyl</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/04/17/national/yoshiwara-fire-war-and-foreign-ministers-start-weekly-meetings-intellectuals-on-dope-japan-offers-to-help-at-chernobyl/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=yoshiwara-fire-war-and-foreign-ministers-start-weekly-meetings-intellectuals-on-dope-japan-offers-to-help-at-chernobyl</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Apr 2011 00:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edan Corkill</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[100 YEARS AGOTuesday, April 11, 1911 Yoshiwara blaze A fire which started in a room on the third floor of the Mikado-ro at number 20, Nichome, Edomachi, Yoshiwara (in Tokyo), about 11 o&#8217;clock Sunday morning swept an area four miles long and a mile wide, consuming 6,676 houses and causing a property loss estimated at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tragic echoes from the past</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Apr 2011 00:02:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edan Corkill</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Prior to the Tohoku-Kanto earthquake and tsunami of March 11, two similar seismic events &#8212; both followed by tsunami &#8212; have recently wrought destruction on the northeastern coast of Japan&#8217;s main island of Honshu. This week and next, we dig into the archives of The Japan Times and a forerunner later absorbed by the JT, [...]]]></description>
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