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	<title>The Japan Times &#187; SENTAKU MAGAZINE</title>
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		<title>Unions mull a &#8216;Labor Party&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/09/29/commentary/unions-mull-a-labor-party/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=unions-mull-a-labor-party</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Sep 2013 14:02:05 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Democratic Party of Japan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[party realignment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rengo]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Japanese Trade Union Confederation, feeling somewhat estranged from the Democratic Party of Japan, is mulling the idea of realigning opposition parties into a labor party.]]></description>
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		<title>Plugging Tepco&#8217;s brain drain</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/08/26/commentary/plugging-tepcos-brain-drain/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=plugging-tepcos-brain-drain</link>
		<comments>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/08/26/commentary/plugging-tepcos-brain-drain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Aug 2013 14:03:22 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[brain drain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[special summer bonus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tepco]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One reason Tepco paid a uniform &#165;100,000 special summer bonus to each of some 5,000 managerial employees is to plug a brain drain. Core workers are quitting.]]></description>
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		<title>No fluffing up China&#8217;s slump</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/08/12/commentary/no-fluffing-up-chinas-slump/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=no-fluffing-up-chinas-slump</link>
		<comments>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/08/12/commentary/no-fluffing-up-chinas-slump/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Aug 2013 14:02:32 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[China economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shanghai interbank market]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The rest of the world has came to know about the start of an economic slump in China from none other than President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Li Keqiang.]]></description>
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		<title>Farmers can&#8217;t bank on Abe</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/07/28/commentary/farmers-cant-bank-on-abe/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=farmers-cant-bank-on-abe</link>
		<comments>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/07/28/commentary/farmers-cant-bank-on-abe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jul 2013 14:02:14 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Abenomics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japan Agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trans-Pacific Partnership]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Japan's farmers must scrutinize what Shinzo Abe says so as not to be deceived by him again. The prime minister has never promised to protect their future.]]></description>
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		<title>Hesitating on sales tax hike?</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/07/21/commentary/hesitating-on-sales-tax-hike/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=hesitating-on-sales-tax-hike</link>
		<comments>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/07/21/commentary/hesitating-on-sales-tax-hike/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jul 2013 14:02:47 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Abenomics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[consumption tax]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is said to be considering delaying the increase in the consumption tax rate currently scheduled to take effect in April 2014.]]></description>
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		<title>Xi regime swinging to the left</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/07/01/commentary/xi-regime-swinging-to-the-left/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=xi-regime-swinging-to-the-left</link>
		<comments>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/07/01/commentary/xi-regime-swinging-to-the-left/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Jun 2013 15:03:53 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Chinese Communist Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Xi Jinping]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Disturbing rumors are spreading that, sometime this fall, there will be a large-scale purge of reformist members from the Chinese Communist Party.]]></description>
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		<title>BOJ facing new brain drain</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/06/17/commentary/boj-facing-new-brain-drain/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=boj-facing-new-brain-drain</link>
		<comments>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/06/17/commentary/boj-facing-new-brain-drain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jun 2013 15:05:56 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[BOJ brain drain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Haruhiko Kuroda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[monetary easing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Bank of Japan could face a drain of elite talent as foreign financial institutions mull rebooting their activities in Tokyo after the recent market rebound.]]></description>
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		<title>South Korea&#8217;s &#8216;export&#8217; crisis</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/05/27/commentary/south-koreas-export-crisis/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=south-koreas-export-crisis</link>
		<comments>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/05/27/commentary/south-koreas-export-crisis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 May 2013 15:05:20 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[South Korea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[technology trade balance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[South Korea ranks at the bottom of OECD member nations in "technology trade balance," which doesn't say much for the design capabilities of manufacturers.]]></description>
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		<title>Is missile defense useful?</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/05/13/commentary/is-missile-defense-useful/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=is-missile-defense-useful</link>
		<comments>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/05/13/commentary/is-missile-defense-useful/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2013 15:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Japan-U.S. alliance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Missile defense]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SDF]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As Japan pours huge sums of taxpayer money into its missile defense system, the SDF is functioning more like a subcontractor for the U.S. armed forces.]]></description>
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		<title>Nuclear arms card for Japan</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/04/29/commentary/nuclear-arms-card-for-japan/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=nuclear-arms-card-for-japan</link>
		<comments>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/04/29/commentary/nuclear-arms-card-for-japan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2013 15:02:10 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Japan defense]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nuclear weapons]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Foreign Ministry has been conducting clandestine studies about the potential development of nuclear weapons in Japan, and the U.S. is nervous about it.]]></description>
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		<title>ASEAN looking a bit like &#8217;97</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/04/22/commentary/asean-looking-a-bit-like-97/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=asean-looking-a-bit-like-97</link>
		<comments>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/04/22/commentary/asean-looking-a-bit-like-97/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Apr 2013 15:01:02 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[ASEAN]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economic boom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Financial crisis]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Amid the economic boom in many ASEAN countries, there is also a feeling of deja vu that current conditions resemble those on the eve of the '97 financial crisis.]]></description>
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		<title>Risks of using &#8216;my number&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/03/25/commentary/risks-of-using-my-number/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=risks-of-using-my-number</link>
		<comments>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/03/25/commentary/risks-of-using-my-number/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Mar 2013 15:01:46 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[My Number]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[personal identification]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Japan's information technology industry could be the biggest beneficiary of the government plan to introduce a personal ID number system for citizens.]]></description>
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		<title>A recharged power industry</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/03/11/commentary/a-recharged-power-industry/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=a-recharged-power-industry</link>
		<comments>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/03/11/commentary/a-recharged-power-industry/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Mar 2013 15:04:28 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Abe Cabinet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Electric power industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tepco]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Three months after December's general election, Japan's electric power industry, under the Abe regime, appears set to regain its former political clout.]]></description>
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		<title>Who&#8217;ll repair Japan&#8217;s roads?</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/02/26/commentary/wholl-repair-japans-roads/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=wholl-repair-japans-roads</link>
		<comments>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/02/26/commentary/wholl-repair-japans-roads/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 15:01:54 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Japan infrastructure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[road construction]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's grandiose plan to reinforce the nation's infrastructure could end up being a pie in the sky unless more attention is paid to details.]]></description>
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		<title>Movers of Abe&#8217;s diplomacy</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/02/11/commentary/movers-of-abes-diplomacy/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=movers-of-abes-diplomacy</link>
		<comments>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/02/11/commentary/movers-of-abes-diplomacy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2013 15:22:59 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Abe administration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[diplomacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nobukatsu Kanehara]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shotaro Yachi]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Who are the key figures helping Prime Minister Shinzo Abe personally lead Japan's diplomacy rather than defer to the defense and foreign ministries?]]></description>
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		<title>Who&#8217;ll govern the governor?</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/01/28/commentary/wholl-govern-the-governor/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=wholl-govern-the-governor</link>
		<comments>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/01/28/commentary/wholl-govern-the-governor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2013 15:16:13 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Naoki Inose]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tokyo]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A high-ranking bureaucrat of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government had this to say about new Tokyo Gov. Naoki Inose: &#8220;Although he served as vice governor, it is not known whether he has the necessary political finesse. I wonder if he is capable of moving metropolitan politics forward.&#8221; In the Dec. 16 Tokyo gubernatorial election, Inose garnered [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our menacing infrastructure</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/01/14/commentary/our-menacing-infrastructure/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=our-menacing-infrastructure</link>
		<comments>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/01/14/commentary/our-menacing-infrastructure/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2013 00:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Expressway tunnels as well as other infrastructure throughout Japan are nearing the crisis stage,&#8221; warns a university professor who is a member of an advisory body for the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism. Among the repercussions of the Dec. 2 ceiling collapse in the Sasago Tunnel on the Chuo Expressway (Yamanashi Prefecture) &#8212; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Power industry outlasts DPJ</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2012/12/24/commentary/power-industry-outlasts-dpj/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=power-industry-outlasts-dpj</link>
		<comments>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2012/12/24/commentary/power-industry-outlasts-dpj/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Dec 2012 00:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nobody was more pleased than the electric power industry when Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda made the surprise announcement Nov. 14 that he would dissolve the Lower House and call a general election. The industry hoped that this would clear the way for terminating the rule of Noda&#8217;s Democratic Party of Japan. The power industry had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Left-leaning candidates worry South Korean business circles</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2012/12/11/commentary/left-leaning-candidates-worry-south-korean-business-circles/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=left-leaning-candidates-worry-south-korean-business-circles</link>
		<comments>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2012/12/11/commentary/left-leaning-candidates-worry-south-korean-business-circles/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2012 00:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The South Korean government may well lean toward the left regardless of who wins the Dec. 19 presidential election, triggering concern among South Korean business leaders that they could be heading into another &#8220;black decade.&#8221; The conservative incumbent president, Lee Myung Bak, came to power in 2008 after the nation&#8217;s economy had stagnated for 10 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Municipal nuclear addiction</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2012 00:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Municipalities hosting nuclear power plants throughout Japan have received large amounts of central government subsidies, donations from utilities and lucrative business contracts. Now, 1&#189; years after the Fukushima nuclear disasters, those municipalities realize how much their finances depend on the nuclear power-induced money. &#8220;They&#8217;re like drug addicts cut off from supplies,&#8221; said a member of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Power industry campaigns to pull the plug on the DPJ</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2012 00:02:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Japan&#8217;s electric power industry is using its political clout to help candidates who are sympathetic to its cause win seats in the Lower House. The next general election of the Diet chamber is rumored to take place as early as this autumn. The industry at the same time is making efforts to deprive candidates not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Troubled waters, bad bridge</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2012 00:03:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A South Korean journalist in Seoul warns that Japan should not make light of the recent series of tough actions taken by Seoul against Tokyo because they represent the beginning of a sharp turn in South Korea&#8217;s policy toward Japan. President Lee Myung Bak suddenly visited the disputed island of Takeshima (called Dokdo in South [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Noda&#8217;s hapless diplomacy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2012 00:01:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Strange though it may seem, Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, who heads the ruling Democratic Party of Japan, is seeking support and advice from former Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori of the No. 1 opposition Liberal Democratic Party in his bid to restructure Japanese diplomacy in general as well as improve Tokyo&#8217;s relations with Russia in particular. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The power reform charade</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 2012 00:03:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On July 13, &#8220;Basic Policies for Reforming the Electric Power System&#8221; was released by a panel of experts organized by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI). It was subtitled &#8220;Aiming for an Power System Open to All Citizens.&#8221; The two main policy pillars are: (1) separation of electricity generation and transmission, both of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bloom is off decentralization</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jul 2012 00:03:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A number of local political parties have cropped up of late clamoring for further &#8220;decentralization,&#8221; which would shift much administrative and budgetary authority from the central government to local governments. The most vocal among these new groups is Osaka Ishin-no Kai (Osaka Restoration Association), headed by Toru Hashimoto, former governor of Osaka Prefecture and current [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nuclear engineers ditching Japan for a bigger paycheck</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2012 00:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although Japan is reputed to be one of the most technologically advanced nations in nuclear power generation, it now faces a serious &#8220;brain drain&#8221; as some of its highly experienced nuclear engineers are lured to work in other countries for much better remuneration than they could hope to receive at home. On June 21, Hitachi [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Liberating Japan&#8217;s resources</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2012 00:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Japan has long been characterized as a nation with virtually no natural resources like oil, natural gas, coal, iron and copper. More than 125 million people live on land area ranking only 61st in the world in terms of size. But it has been proven of late that Japan has two huge potential areas rich [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Overruling doubt to indict: underbelly of Japan&#8217;s reform</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 May 2012 00:03:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The April 26 acquittal in Tokyo District Court of former Democratic Party of Japan chief Ichiro Ozawa signified total &#8220;defeat&#8221; for public prosecutors in view of the strong possibility, as a journalist on judicial matters said, that the prosecutors had maneuvered a &#8220;prosecution inquest committee,&#8221; an 11-member citizens&#8217; judicial panel, into sending Ozawa to court [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nuclear watchdog autonomy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 00:02:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the ruling Democratic Party of Japan under Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda pushed to make the yet-to-be-established Nuclear Regulatory Agency subordinate to the Environment Ministry, the opposition Liberal Democratic Party and Komeito favored granting it greater authority. It was reported Friday that the two sides reached a compromise on how much autonomy and power should [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Land grabs raise security issues</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 00:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A foreign-capital property buying spree that has extended to areas in and around facilities of the Japanese Self-Defense Forces and the American armed forces could pose a threat to Japan&#8217;s security. In the town of Kutchan, southwestern Hokkaido, it has been confirmed that foreign investors have purchased three tracts of land totaling 109 hectares within [...]]]></description>
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