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	<title>The Japan Times &#187; THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK</title>
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		<title>Air festivals, the costs of flight and budget flak</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/09/29/commentary/air-festivals-the-costs-of-flight-and-budget-flak/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=air-festivals-the-costs-of-flight-and-budget-flak</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Sep 2013 13:48:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hiroaki Sato</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[costs of flight]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Military aircraft]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Air Force did not send its acrobatic team to the Misawa Air Festival this year because of budget cuts. Military flying machines can be exorbitantly expensive.]]></description>
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		<title>Still dreaming of a level field after all these years</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/08/25/commentary/still-dreaming-of-a-level-field-after-all-these-years/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=still-dreaming-of-a-level-field-after-all-these-years</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Aug 2013 13:59:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hiroaki Sato</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[I have a dream]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Martin Luther King Jr.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[U.S. segregation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Wednesday will mark the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington that soon came to be equated with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.&#8217;s speech, &#8220;I Have a Dream.&#8221; Delivered with what I take to be a Southern preacher&#8217;s passionate cadence blended into skillful anaphora, the speech was filled with literary allusions, historical references, and homely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where to go to survive the day? the corbies say</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/07/28/commentary/where-to-go-to-survive-the-day-the-corbies-say/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=where-to-go-to-survive-the-day-the-corbies-say</link>
		<comments>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/07/28/commentary/where-to-go-to-survive-the-day-the-corbies-say/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jul 2013 14:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hiroaki Sato</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[jungle crows]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tokyo environment]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The word from a longtime Tokyo resident is that the jungle crow population, the bane of garbage piles, is finally in decline. Not everyone is happy about that.]]></description>
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		<title>Going with the flow in the trade office for Japan</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/06/24/commentary/going-with-the-flow-in-the-trade-office-for-japan/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=going-with-the-flow-in-the-trade-office-for-japan</link>
		<comments>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/06/24/commentary/going-with-the-flow-in-the-trade-office-for-japan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Jun 2013 15:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hiroaki Sato</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Faubion Bowers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[JETRO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[U.S.-Japan trade]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There are some things to say as one leaves the New York office of Japan's JETRO, having worked amid the ebb and flow of trade for 44 years.]]></description>
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		<title>The transient rasping that captivates the poets</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/05/27/commentary/the-transient-rasping-that-captivates-the-poets/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-transient-rasping-that-captivates-the-poets</link>
		<comments>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/05/27/commentary/the-transient-rasping-that-captivates-the-poets/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 May 2013 15:03:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hiroaki Sato</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Basho]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cicadas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[symbol of vanity]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Do cicadas create a shrieking hell? Are they ugly? There is a striking difference between English and Japanese Wikipedia entries on these transient insects.]]></description>
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		<title>Photos of carnage would check war sentiment</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/04/29/commentary/photos-of-carnage-would-check-war-sentiment/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=photos-of-carnage-would-check-war-sentiment</link>
		<comments>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/04/29/commentary/photos-of-carnage-would-check-war-sentiment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2013 15:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hiroaki Sato</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Boston bombings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drones]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gun rights]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Would most Americans remain indifferent to the wars their government wages in far-off lands if their media broadcast videos each day of the shattered bodies?]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s not skin color, it&#8217;s every way you&#8217;re different</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/03/25/commentary/its-not-skin-color-its-every-way-youre-different/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=its-not-skin-color-its-every-way-youre-different</link>
		<comments>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/03/25/commentary/its-not-skin-color-its-every-way-youre-different/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Mar 2013 15:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hiroaki Sato</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Japanese society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[racial discrimination]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What should a Japanese expat say to a mixed-race couple in New York who wonder how their children would be treated if they raised them in Japan?]]></description>
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		<title>Endless effects of &#8216;pacification&#8217; wars</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/02/25/commentary/endless-effects-of-pacification-wars/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=endless-effects-of-pacification-wars</link>
		<comments>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/02/25/commentary/endless-effects-of-pacification-wars/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Feb 2013 15:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hiroaki Sato</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hainan Island]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japan's war]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Navy SEAL]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PTSD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ron Paul]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Unnecessary U.S. wars in the Middle East have unintended consequences at home just as Japan's war against China still casts its shadows to this day.]]></description>
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		<title>West never tires of the &#8216;burden&#8217; of baiting Iran</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/01/28/commentary/west-never-tires-of-the-burden-of-baiting-iran/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=west-never-tires-of-the-burden-of-baiting-iran</link>
		<comments>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/01/28/commentary/west-never-tires-of-the-burden-of-baiting-iran/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2013 15:15:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hiroaki Sato</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[arms trafficking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Is The New York Times inciting a U.S. war against Iran? As it did the war against Iraq? A decade ago, the paper&#8217;s Judith Miller, along with a few of her fellow reporters, so unabashedly agitated for President George W. Bush attacking Iraq that the daily was forced to fire her when things turned sour [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Supreme copout: twisted justification for guns</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2012/12/31/commentary/supreme-copout-twisted-justification-for-guns/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=supreme-copout-twisted-justification-for-guns</link>
		<comments>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2012/12/31/commentary/supreme-copout-twisted-justification-for-guns/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2012 00:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hiroaki Sato</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Suppose a Seung-Hui Cho, Jared Lee Loughner, James Eagan Holmes or an Adam Lanza shot and killed or seriously wounded any of the families of John Roberts, Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito. Would any of them have given different opinions in their 2008 and 2010 decisions? Virginia Tech student Seung-Hui Cho, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Punchy party names hark back to ignominy</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2012/11/26/commentary/punchy-party-names-hark-back-to-ignominy/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=punchy-party-names-hark-back-to-ignominy</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2012 00:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hiroaki Sato</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[So, Shintaro Ishihara, who had abruptly quit the Tokyo governorship in October, set up a political party named Taiyo no To, then merged it with Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto&#8217;s political party that doesn&#8217;t sound like one, Nippon Ishin no Kai. Another political party that doesn&#8217;t sound like one, Tachiagare Nippon, joined them. All this looks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Evidence of the Showa Emperor&#8217;s deep regret</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2012/10/29/commentary/evidence-of-the-showa-emperors-deep-regret/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=evidence-of-the-showa-emperors-deep-regret</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2012 00:01:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hiroaki Sato</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Checking the galley of the endnotes to &#8220;Persona,&#8221; my biography of Yukio Mishima with Naoki Inose, I decided to augment a note on Japan&#8217;s monarchical system. The tenno institution had a singular meaning for Mishima, and I set aside substantial space in the book for the subject. The information I added was simple. It is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An ominously familiar Japanese contemporary</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2012/09/24/commentary/an-ominously-familiar-japanese-contemporary/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=an-ominously-familiar-japanese-contemporary</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2012 00:02:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hiroaki Sato</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Things do sometimes go backward. This truism hit me recently while I was checking the galleys of &#8220;Persona,&#8221; my biography, with Naoki Inose, of Yukio Mishima. I was deep in the proofreading when the publisher&#8217;s agent asked if I knew of two earlier books in English on the author who chose to die by disembowelment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shifting views on the role of the Emancipator</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2012/08/27/commentary/shifting-views-on-the-role-of-the-emancipator/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=shifting-views-on-the-role-of-the-emancipator</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2012 00:02:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hiroaki Sato</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Gore Vidal, who died at the end of July, was one writer whose essays I began to read years ago. I then moved on to his novels, though I saw one of his more famous Broadway plays, &#8220;The Best Man,&#8221; only recently for the first time. Vidal was an outstanding historical novelist, with an astute [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. has turned the tables on its old Declaration</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2012/07/30/commentary/u-s-has-turned-the-tables-on-its-old-declaration/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=u-s-has-turned-the-tables-on-its-old-declaration</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2012 00:03:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hiroaki Sato</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[On Independence Day (July 4), The New York Times printed the Declaration of Independence, as it had done &#8212; the daily noted in an article on the preceding day &#8212; for 90 years, since 1922. What the announcement the day before did was tell the reader that this year&#8217;s printing would be &#8220;accompanied for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Irony of being in the company of &#8217;12-year-olds&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2012/06/25/commentary/irony-of-being-in-the-company-of-12-year-olds/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=irony-of-being-in-the-company-of-12-year-olds</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2012 00:01:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hiroaki Sato</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In going over my manuscript of the Yukio Mishima biography, my copy editor protested at one point, citing her &#8220;liberal Berkeley-influenced sensibilities.&#8221; That was where I described Japan as a &#8220;backward nation.&#8221; Let me explain. In 1958, Mishima dictated an entire book in the somewhat pedagogic genre of bunsh&#333; tokuhon, in which an established writer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unmachinable, unreformable, but necessary</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 May 2012 00:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hiroaki Sato</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[One recent topic for The Wall Street Journal&#8217;s front-page space set aside for stories other than the daily shenanigans of business, politics and wars was the community in Florida created for retired letter carriers. (&#8220;In Florida, These Retirees Deliver a First-Class Protest,&#8221; March 27.) The town, which is carved out of the wooded area on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The answer, my friend, is blowing in the sakura</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2012/04/30/commentary/the-answer-my-friend-is-blowing-in-the-sakura/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-answer-my-friend-is-blowing-in-the-sakura</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hiroaki Sato</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Until The New York Times pointed it out earlier this month, I had failed to notice, alas, that Tokyo had given cherry trees to this city as it did to Washington, D.C., 100 years ago (&#8220;Gifts From Japan, Less Celebrated in Manhattan,&#8221; April 12). I had known about the cherry trees in the nation&#8217;s capital [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Costs of a policy of profligacy with foreign lives</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2012/03/26/commentary/costs-of-a-policy-of-profligacy-with-foreign-lives/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=costs-of-a-policy-of-profligacy-with-foreign-lives</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 00:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hiroaki Sato</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In the early hours of March 11, Sunday, a U.S. soldier went on a rampage in a village in Panjway, southwest of Kandahar, Afghanistan. He went from one mud house to another, shot, stabbed, and burned 16 villagers. Or so it has been reported. No, I don&#8217;t want to talk about whether Army Staff Sgt. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>American safety tab in terms of drone deaths</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2012/02/27/commentary/american-safety-tab-in-terms-of-drone-deaths/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=american-safety-tab-in-terms-of-drone-deaths</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2012 00:02:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hiroaki Sato</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes people make a startlingly mindless argument. One recent example is &#8220;Drones for Human Rights&#8221; (New York Times, Jan. 31). &#8220;Drones are not just for firing missiles in Pakistan,&#8221; began Andrew Stobo Sniderman and Mark Hanis, who co-wrote the op-ed. &#8220;In Iraq, the State Department is using them to watch for threats to Americans. It&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aggression born of American &#8216;exceptionalism&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hiroaki Sato</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I thought American exceptionalism was debunked and dying. I was wrong. Most recently, American exceptionalism jumped to the political fore at the start of this century. It did so with a swagger, ironically, because of the 9/11 attacks. In his speech that night, President George W. Bush put forward the United States as &#8220;the brightest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strange how isolationist stance can ruin a politician&#8217;s reputation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 00:03:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hiroaki Sato</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps because it&#8217;s a round number, the 70th anniversary of Japan&#8217;s assault on Pearl Harbor has given me the impression that more articles on it saw print than in the past, except for, as I recall, the 50th anniversary of the same. Back in 1991, Japan&#8217;s financial bubble had burst, but there was as yet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Learning to live with the builders of America</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 00:01:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Klaus Naumann  and Hiroaki Sato</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[During one week this month, the drivers of four taxis that I took hailed from four different countries. One of them said his was a small country near India when I asked him where he was from, my standard question when I see the driver&#8217;s nameplate. Nepal? No. Bhutan? No. Sri Lanka? No. The answer: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Controversy is no stranger to Nobel Peace Prize</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 00:02:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hiroaki Sato</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this month, when the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced its decision to award its annual Peace Prize to three African women &#8212; two Liberians and one Yemeni &#8212; Time magazine published online, on the same day, a list of the top 10 among &#8220;the most controversial moments in the 110-year history of the prize,&#8221; giving [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two &#8216;systematic&#8217; acts of brutality and coverup</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2011/09/26/commentary/two-systematic-acts-of-brutality-and-coverup/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=two-systematic-acts-of-brutality-and-coverup</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 00:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hiroaki Sato</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[When Mark Hatfield, who had served as a U.S. Senator from Oregon for three decades, died in early August, obituaries noted that he was one of the first U.S. soldiers to visit Hiroshima not long after the atomic bombing of the city, and that experience led him to work for nuclear arms control later, after [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Gratuitous&#8217; bombing of a defeated enemy</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2011/08/29/commentary/gratuitous-bombing-of-a-defeated-enemy/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=gratuitous-bombing-of-a-defeated-enemy</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 00:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hiroaki Sato</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The International Center of Photography recently had an exhibition, &#8220;Hiroshima: Ground Zero 1945,&#8221; and I attended the panel discussion. This month 66 years ago the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Back in 1995, I had attended another ICP panel discussion on Hiroshima, which was part of the exhibition &#8220;The Pacific War.&#8221; That [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The self-inflicted costs of a &#8216;war of choice&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 00:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hiroaki Sato</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In mid-July when Mumbai was attacked with three explosions, The New York Times carried photos of some of the bloodied casualties up front &#8212; at least in its online version &#8212; and I wondered: If the newspaper for &#8220;all the news that&#8217;s fit to print&#8221; had carried photos of victims of American bombing and gunning [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dealing with addiction to the &#8216;war on drugs&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 00:02:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hiroaki Sato</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this month a spate of reports and commentaries came out on the failure of the U.S. &#8220;war on drugs,&#8221; beginning with the Global Commission on Drug Policy flatly stating the war &#8220;has failed.&#8221; Perusing them, I thought of Cape Girardeau, Missouri. I used to go there every Christmas to visit my mother-in-law, until her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bedfellows of those &#8216;lax,&#8217; &#8216;insular&#8217; Japanese</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2011/05/30/commentary/bedfellows-of-those-lax-insular-japanese/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=bedfellows-of-those-lax-insular-japanese</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2011 00:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hiroaki Sato</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Are some of those who write for The New York Times utterly unaware of the rest of the world &#8212; including the United States? Take the article last month, &#8220;Culture of Complicity Tied to Stricken Nuclear Plant&#8221; (April 21, 2011). &#8220;Given the fierce insularity of Japan&#8217;s nuclear industry,&#8221; the article by Norimitsu Onishi and Ken [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t destroy that invader, it was here first!</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2011/03/27/commentary/dont-destroy-that-invader-it-was-here-first/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=dont-destroy-that-invader-it-was-here-first</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Mar 2011 00:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hiroaki Sato</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK &#8212; Among the most recent invaders of the United States to be exterminated that I learned about is the red lionfish. Before that, the Asian carp got all the attention. About the time the carp scare was quieting down the yellow jacket &#8212; yes, the wasp &#8212; came forward as a heinous invader [...]]]></description>
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