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		<title>Suffering from the lack of satire</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2013 14:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Regarding Noriko Fujita&#8217;s Sept. 29 letter, &#8220;When cartoons don&#8217;t go our way&#8220;: Fujita seems to have absolutely no idea what satire is. This is not surprising in a country whose media habitually treat politicians with deference and where any kind of political satire is lacking. Consequently ordinary people feel loyal to their leaders and tend [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The fear of appearing henpecked</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2013 14:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As for Mike Wyckoff&#8217;s Sept. 26 letter, &#8220;The men that lack &#8216;life skills,&#8217; &#8221; from The Japan Times Online, let me tell you about my husband, who used to work for a general trading company. Since our married life began, he has helped me wash dishes after dinner so that we can enjoy the evening [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mindset trumps English ability</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2013 14:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his Sept. 23 article, &#8220;The communication skills for vying in the world,&#8221; Sadaaki Numata expressed concern about Japan&#8217;s ability to hold its own in international forums and negotiations. I believe he identified the problem incorrectly. His focus on language study and language proficiency is too narrow. He mentions entrance-examination hell as the reason Japanese [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. interest in a Japanese affair</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2013 14:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the Sept. 26 Kyodo article &#8220;Abe tries to counter militant image in U.S.,&#8221; Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says that under the current interpretation of Japan&#8217;s Constitution, Japan&#8217;s warships cannot &#8220;come to the aid of U.S. warships operating around Japan in international waters if they are attacked from the air.&#8221; The same thing was mentioned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rights to our body after death</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2013 14:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I usually enjoy Ted Rall&#8217;s opinion essays, but I didn&#8217;t fancy his Sept. 27 article &#8220;Mandatory organ donation.&#8221; Even though he writes as he usually does, provocatively and tongue in cheek, there are serious people among us who seriously propose this dystopian stupidity. While I understand the claim that the pressing need for organ donations [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Playing &#8216;softball&#8217; with an autocrat</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2013 14:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Regarding Tom Plate&#8217;s Sept. 23 article &#8220;The good side of Singapore icon Lee Kuan Yew&#8220;: Plate seems obsessed with men like Lee, who has been described elsewhere as autocratic, arrogant, vindictive, vicious and just plain mean and nasty. Plate consistently seems to overlook Lee&#8217;s faults and to praise his achievements. Lee was indeed brilliant in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Keep tabs on Lake Biwa water</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Sep 2013 14:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was with great distress that I read the Sept. 19 Kyodo article &#8220;Cesium-tainted wood chips found near (Lake) Biwa.&#8221; My family and I spent much time around this area swimming and camping and enjoying beautiful Lake Biwa. However, the loss of a favored campsite and swimming spot is quite insignificant compared with the overall [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A mass shooting turns personal</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Sep 2013 14:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Regarding the Sept. 18 front-page AP story, &#8220;Motive for deadly rampage at (Washington D.C.) U.S. Navy Yard unknown&#8221;: As an American, I feel it&#8217;s a sad commentary that gun violence in America is the norm rather than the exception. I was having morning coffee and donuts when I heard the tragic news. I dismissed the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Results don&#8217;t match the bustle</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Sep 2013 14:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Regarding Kevin Rafferty&#8217;s Sept. 25 article, &#8220;The limits of multitasking&#8220;: There was a time when I used to regret that I am pretty inept at multitasking. I tried to get with it, but not without sometimes hilarious and usually failed results. I grew out of trying to multitask all the time, although it spills out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In the interest of human security</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Sep 2013 14:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Sept. 17 Bloomberg article by Dmitri Trenin, &#8220;Why the West misread Russia,&#8221; provides deep insights into the thinking behind Russia&#8217;s proposed arrangement to disarm Syria of its chemical weapons — without the use of force. If Trenin&#8217;s analysis is accurate and truly indicative of Putin&#8217;s political philosophy, Putin may be providing an opportunity for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Urban planners miss the plot</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Sep 2013 14:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The tale of local communities losing energy and activities, told by Amy Chavez in her Sept. 21 article, &#8220;The ancient pilgrimage routes and the local community,&#8221; is disheartening. If I were hyperactive, I&#8217;d immediately go to clear pilgrimage paths with Ms. Chavez. But the true solution would be to halt the urbanization of society. Months [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When cartoons don&#8217;t go our way</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Sep 2013 14:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Regarding the Sept. 14 Bloomberg article &#8220;Japan to protest Olympic cartoons&#8221; (carried by French satirical newspaper Le Canard Enchaine): The article makes some of the differences between Japanese and French society quite apparent. We know that satirical cartoons use humor to show faults or weaknesses. But some of us cannot admit that the [published cartoons [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Keeping moral issues in context</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Sep 2013 14:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kudos to The Japan Times for running Michelle Boorstein&#8217;s Washington Post piece, &#8220;Savvy pope wooing the Catholic middle&#8221; (Sept. 21), a reasonably accurate treatment of Pope Francis&#8217; interview printed recently in the Jesuit magazine America. Boorstein&#8217;s well-done commentary stands in contrast to other media reports, which badly misrepresented what the Holy Father actually said about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Questionable link to innovation</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Sep 2013 14:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Professor Takamitsu Sawa made some factual mistakes in his Sept. 17 article, &#8220;Lack of liberal arts education is sapping Japan&#8217;s creativity.&#8221; In Japanese universities, students of science, engineering and medicine take courses in social studies their first year. As an economics professor at Nagasaki University, I often taught these students about economic conditions of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The men that lack &#8216;life skills&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Sep 2013 14:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Regarding Michael Hoffman&#8217;s Aug. 31 article, &#8220;Married or single, Japan is a desolate country&#8220;: I have a few elder moms as students, all with adult sons living at home. In my opinion, it&#8217;s all the mothers&#8217; fault. They raise kids to be dependent on someone to cook and clean for them, to do their laundry [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What will replace the signature?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Sep 2013 14:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Regarding the Bloomberg Global Perspective of Sept. 20, &#8220;The case against cursive writing&#8221;: I do not think less of children or young adults who cannot write because they were not taught cursive handwriting in school. It is a laborious, lengthy, time-consuming lesson in an environment where teachers are called on to do so much more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>So much lost in progress&#8217; name</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Sep 2013 14:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Regarding Michael Hoffman&#8217;s Sept. 22 article, &#8220;Ancient tales by the &#8216;savages&#8217; of Hokkaido have lessons for today&#8220;: British traveler Isabella Bird wrote &#8220;Unbeaten Tracks in Japan&#8221; (1880) after she traveled by horseback from the Port of Yokohama to the wilds of Ezo (Hokkaido), on a journey through a relatively undeveloped Tohoku, crossing to Ezo by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yokota reminiscent of Futenma</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Sep 2013 14:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Regarding the Sept. 16 article &#8220;Inose revives push to let civilian airliners use Yokota air base&#8220;: The aerial photo accompanying the article shows that Yokota Air Base looks exactly like Futenma Air Station on Okinawa. Both foreign bases are located in densely populated residential areas. Just as the Futenma issue does so in Okinawa, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tokyo needs better accessibility</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Sep 2013 14:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Regarding the selection of Tokyo as the host of the 2020 Olympics: A lot of Japanese rejoiced to hear that Japan was selected to host the 2020 Summer Olympics and Paralympics. While the mass media is highly likely to focus on facilities in which the games are supposed to be held, I think that a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are Japanese minds closing?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Sep 2013 14:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Japan&#8217;s science and technology universities, including all engineering departments, should heed what the president of Shiga University, Takamitsu Sawa, had to say about the critical link between innovations in manufacturing and the humanities. Creativity takes inspiration from the heart as well as the mind. And it&#8217;s the humanities that inform the human heart. The American [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Education costs influence majors</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Sep 2013 14:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Regarding Takamitsu Sawa&#8217;s Sept. 17 commentary &#8220;Lack of liberal arts education is sapping Japan&#8217;s creativity&#8220;: What Sawa is talking about is the difference between education and training. Although they overlap, they are not the same. Nevertheless, universities are increasingly being ranked on their graduates&#8217; income and employment as the return on their investment. In the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When is a tattoo permissible?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Sep 2013 14:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Regarding the Sept. 15 article &#8220;Tattooed Maori barred by bath in Hokkaido&#8220;: I have mixed feelings. I suppose that the difference of perception and mind-set regarding tattoos between Japanese and others is so great that such incidents will occur more frequently as the Olympics approaches. As this article points out, traditional Japanese &#8220;yakuza&#8221; or gangsters [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What hindrances in Japan?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Sep 2013 14:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Regarding Kevin Rafferty&#8217;s Sept. 16 commentary &#8220;Abe&#8217;s 2020 vision challenged&#8220;: You get fingerprinted and photographed in a whole lot of countries these days, not just Japan or the U.S. — it&#8217;s unfortunately the way the world has gone, by and large. And getting luggage inspected 20 to 50 percent of the time in Tokyo or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Much ado over a single cartoon</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Sep 2013 14:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Regarding the Sept. 13 article &#8220;Japan to protest Fukushima-Olympics cartoons in French weekly&#8220;: One — count it, one! — cartoon in a French satirical periodical makes the Japanese government cry &#8220;shame.&#8221; This from the same government that denies Japan&#8217;s World War II atrocities such as the enslavement of women in military brothels. This in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Filling up time to fend off evil</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Sep 2013 14:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Regarding the Sept. 15 article &#8220;Japanese media declare &#8216;dark times&#8217; are on us&#8220;: Whenever there is a murder in Japan, especially of a young girl, there is always some kind of fear-mongering and citation of whatever other kinds of crimes and skewing of whatever statistics that happen to be happening/available in the moment. This cultural [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. makes world more dangerous</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Sep 2013 14:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Regarding the Sept. 15 article &#8220;U.S. arsenal offers lesson in chemical arms disposal&#8220;: I&#8217;ve been waiting a long time to see a story like this because it reminds us that America has its own chemical weapons, too. I already knew it, but it is important to see it in print as an educational tool for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japanese men hard to change</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Sep 2013 14:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Regarding the article titled &#8220;Seeking to change men&#8217;s mind-sets to spur on prosperity for all Japanese&#8221; in the Sept. 11 &#8220;Summer Davos&#8221; Special supplement: Changing men&#8217;s mind-sets, in Japan? What sort of quixotic nonsense is this? If it ain&#8217;t broke, don&#8217;t fix it and most Japanese men are very happy with the gender gap, thank [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lack of good information</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Sep 2013 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A good portion of the over-65 age group comprising 1-in-4 shoplifting offenses no doubt has some root in the fact that the over-65 age group is rapidly growing, which cannot be said for that of juveniles. Seems a bit shady to leave that very important bit of information out; after all, if the author (or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Olympics to hurt reconstruction</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Sep 2013 12:44:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I quite agree with the Sept. 11 front-page article &#8220;Abe&#8217;s nuke assurance to IOC questioned.&#8221; I am afraid to say that the leaked contaminated water can&#8217;t be stopped by simply freezing because the Earth is getting warmer little by little. As a resident of Fukushima Prefecture, I&#8217;m afraid that general concern, construction material and construction [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Make use of chemical conventions</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Sep 2013 12:42:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Regarding the Sept. 12 article &#8220;Obama gives Syria diplomatic option to avoid U.S. strike&#8220;: In a plan jointly developed just over a week ago with Dr. Gordon Thompson, who directs the Institute for Resource and Security Studies in Cambridge, Massachusetts (before U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry&#8217;s door-opening comment in London on Sept. 9) we [...]]]></description>
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