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		<title>President Obama Sits With Japan Prime Minister Noda</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/107766/president-obama-sits-with-japan-prime-minister-noda/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 19:14:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama met Monday with Japans sixth prime minister in five years to try to strengthen ties with the Pacific economic power still struggling after last years earthquake and tsunami that triggered a nuclear power plant meltdown. The president and visiting Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda started bilateral talks at the White House, to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China lifts rare earth export ban to Japan</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/107279/china-lifts-rare-earth-export-ban-to-japan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2010 03:42:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[China has ended a de facto ban on exports to Japan of rare earth minerals, a Japanese trading firm source said on Wednesday, easing concerns about fallout from a bitter feud between Asia’s two biggest economies. Tokyo and Beijing have been bickering over Japan’s detention of a Chinese fishing boat skipper whose trawler collided this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan eyes PM talks with China to defuse row</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/107277/japan-eyes-pm-talks-with-china-to-defuse-row/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2010 03:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Japan stuck to its guns Tuesday in a row with China over a disputed island chain but also said it was open to high-level talks to defuse the worst spat in years between the Asian powers. Prime Minister Naoto Kan now plans to attend an Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) in Brussels next week, officials said, making [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Senkaku Islands: Japanese Territory?</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/107224/the-senkaku-islands-japanese-territory/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2010 01:27:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are the Senkaku islands a legitimate part of Japan’s national territory? Journalist Akira Ikegami thinks so. Here’s a clip from a recent episode of his “Mr. News” program, in which he explains how the islands became part of Japan and how the Chinese government recognized them as Japanese territory on numerous occasions: All of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PC recycling law still mostly unknown</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/107085/pc-recycling-law-still-mostly-unknown/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Sep 2010 14:11:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this recent survey from goo Research, reported on by japan.internet.com, into the PC Recycle Law, the vast majority who knew it well reckoned it worked to at least some degree. Demographics On the 6th of September 2010 1,084 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 52.6% of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Senkaku Dispute Still Rages:  Japan to Demand Compensation?</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/106939/senkaku-dispute-still-rages-japan-to-demand-compensation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Sep 2010 04:35:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The dispute between Japan and China over the ramming of two Japanese coast guard ships by a Chinese trawler continues to rage on. It looks like Japan’s release of the Chinese captain hasn’t accomplished much of anything. The Japanese government has rejected China’s demands for an apology and compensation payments. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshito Sengoku [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Ambassador Visits Nagasaki</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/106383/u-s-ambassador-visits-nagasaki/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Sep 2010 22:51:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[American Ambassador John Roos visited Hiroshima on its bombing anniversary, but skipped Nagasaki’s anniversary ceremony. He made up for that by making an official visit to Nagasaki yesterday: After arriving at the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum with his wife Susan, ambassador John Roos wrote in a visitors’ book: “Our visit today has reinforced for me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tension Continues – Kan Rejects China’s Demand for Apology</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/106335/tension-continues-%e2%80%93-kan-rejects-china%e2%80%99s-demand-for-apology/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Sep 2010 16:51:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tensions between China and Japan over the arrest of a Chinese trawler captain took another turn for the worse Sunday as Prime Minister Naoto Kan of Japan rejected China’s repeated demand that Tokyo apologize and offer compensation for the incident. The Chinese authorities also flexed their muscles on a wider front, becoming more assertive on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kan makes Japan’s pitch for U.N. Security Council seat</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Sep 2010 01:29:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan on Friday made Japan’s pitch for permanent membership of the U.N. Security Council, saying the non- nuclear country that has suffered the devastation of atomic bombings deserves a seat on the council in the 21st century. In his speech to the general debate session of the U.N. General Assembly, Kan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China arrests 4 Japanese Nationals</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/106129/china-arrests-4-japanese-nationals/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Sep 2010 23:29:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Four Japanese nationals have been arrested in China, and are being investigated for entering a military zone without authorization and videotaping military targets, Chinese state media said. The arrests come amid the two nations’ diplomatic battle over Japan’s detainment of a Chinese fishing captain. &#34;We believe if our employees knew about the area being off-limits, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Okinawan Fishermen Fear Chinese Aggression</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/106125/okinawan-fishermen-fear-chinese-aggression/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Sep 2010 23:05:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Japanese fishermen in Okinawa prefecture are very worried about the government’s failure to stand up to Chinese pressure over the arrest of a Chinese trawler captain who intruded into Japanese-held waters and rammed 2 patrol boats: “I thought he should’ve been indicted. I feel betrayed by the government,” said Katsuji Nakajima, head of the Yonagunicho [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China strikes back at Japan after boat captain freed</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/105936/china-strikes-back-at-japan-after-boat-captain-freed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Sep 2010 03:23:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[China on Saturday demanded Japan apologize for holding a Chinese boat captain, showing few outward signs of softening in a dispute between the two Asian economic powers after Japan gave ground and released him. The fishing trawler captain, Zhan Qixiong, flew out of Japan on a chartered plane that took him to the coastal Chinese [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan Caves In To Chinese Pressure: Releases Trawler Captain</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/105739/japan-caves-in-to-chinese-pressure-releases-trawler-captain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2010 07:58:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Chinese trawler captain who was arrested for ramming two Japanese coast guard patrol ships is going to be released without any charges: The Naha District Public Prosecutors Office said Friday that it has decided to free a detained Chinese fishing boat captain involved in collisions at sea early this month near a chain of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Twitter reports</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/105701/twitter-reports/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2010 06:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[that Japan has released the captain of the Chinese boat involved in the Senkaku dispute. Ohh, this does not look good for domestic politics, I fear.]]></description>
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		<title>Four Japanese Citizens Detained in China for “Illegally Videotaping Military Targets”</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/105538/four-japanese-citizens-detained-in-china-for-%e2%80%9cillegally-videotaping-military-targets%e2%80%9d/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 22:05:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Four Japanese employees of Fujita have been detained in China for videotaping “military targets”: Four Japanese are being investigated in China for having entered a military zone without authorization and illegally videotaped military targets in northern Hebei Province, local state security authorities said Thursday. The state security authorities in Shijiazhuang, capital of Hebei, have taken [...]]]></description>
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		<title>日本茶党, birthers, and the Oz Lady.</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/105325/%e6%97%a5%e6%9c%ac%e8%8c%b6%e5%85%9a-birthers-and-the-oz-lady/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 05:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, 茶党, not 茶道*。And here I thought the Tea Party and the Birthers were some sort of &#34;Only in American&#34; thing. But on the day of PM Kan&#039;s victory over Ozawa, I was chatting with my old friend and ex-tutor whom I shall refer to as the Oz Lady as that fits both her name [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Close but No Tube of Smoldering Leaves</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/105274/close-but-no-tube-of-smoldering-leaves/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 02:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The vote count is almost over, and the coalition got one more seat, still two shy of a majority. They lacked nine votes in Värmland and seven votes in Gothenburg for those other two seats. Close, but close is not making it. It&#039;s fair enough though; they&#039;re also 297 votes short of the majority of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cutting it Close</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/104990/cutting-it-close/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 2010 06:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to Dagens Nyheter, just a few votes can change the voting results. In Darlarna district (where my parents and I vote), there&#039;s 42 votes missing to effectively give the coalition another seat &#8211; the votes would need to go to the Communists, who&#039;d gain a seat from the Social Democrats, but lose one reserve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Antonio Inoki – Friend of North Korea</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/104862/antonio-inoki-%e2%80%93-friend-of-north-korea/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 2010 00:56:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Former pro wrestler Antonio Inoki visited North Korea last week, wining and dining with elites and receiving a medal honoring him for the support and friendship he has given to one of the world’s most brutal totalitarian states. Here’s some video of his visit: Inoki trained under the legendary Korean-born wrestler Rikidozan, who is treated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Not a Done Deal Yet</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/104737/not-a-done-deal-yet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Sep 2010 13:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Swedish election was fairly close, with the center-right coalition just three seats from a majority. As it turns out, as few as another 7000 votes could be enough to tip three close seats to the coalition. And as more than 100 000 votes &#8211; foreign votes, last minute postal votes and the like &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Global Hawk Drones in East Asia</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/104533/u-s-global-hawk-drones-in-east-asia/</link>
		<comments>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/104533/u-s-global-hawk-drones-in-east-asia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Sep 2010 01:43:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The United States military has begun to deploy RQ-4B Global Hawk unmanned surveillance drones to Guam, and some in Japan see it as an important strengthening of American military power in the region: Global Hawks have a range of 10,000 miles and will give the Air Force a reconnaissance range from Guam that stretches from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fairtrade fairly unknown in Japan</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/104391/fairtrade-fairly-unknown-in-japan/</link>
		<comments>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/104391/fairtrade-fairly-unknown-in-japan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 14:43:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can’t go anywhere in Europe or America without bumping into a Fairtrade product, usually coffee or tea, but as this recent survey from goo Research into Fairtrade found that even awareness of the system was pretty thin on the ground. Demographics Between the 27th and 30th of August 2010 2,350 members of the goo [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Election 2010 &#8211; Results</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/104287/election-2010-results/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 08:43:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The preliminary1 results of the Swedish election are about as expected. The coalition won, but are a meager three seats shy of a majority. The opposition lost, with the Social Democrats the major losers of the election. Nazi party Sweden Democrats got over 5% of the votes and get into parliament. As the Communists and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China suspends senior bilateral exchanges with Japan over fishing boat seizure</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/104034/china-suspends-senior-bilateral-exchanges-with-japan-over-fishing-boat-seizure/</link>
		<comments>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/104034/china-suspends-senior-bilateral-exchanges-with-japan-over-fishing-boat-seizure/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Sep 2010 15:38:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[China on Sunday said it had suspended senior bilateral exchanges with Japan over an incident in disputed waters and warned relations with Tokyo had been &#34;severely hurt&#34;. The announcement comes after a Japanese court authorised prosecutors to extend by 10 days the detention of a Chinese captain accused of ramming his trawler against Japanese patrol [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Purges and predictions</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/103790/purges-and-predictions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Sep 2010 09:01:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[PRIME MINISTER Kan Naoto rearranged his Cabinet on Friday, adding nine new members to the 18-person lineup and redistributing a portfolio or two. Everyone immediately noticed that none of the new additions were allies of Ozawa Ichiro, the man he defeated in Tuesday’s DPJ presidential election. The most prominent of his supporters in the new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Death Penalty Opponent Keiko Chiba: No Longer Justice Minister</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/103670/death-penalty-opponent-keiko-chiba-no-longer-justice-minister/</link>
		<comments>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/103670/death-penalty-opponent-keiko-chiba-no-longer-justice-minister/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Sep 2010 22:09:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The results of Prime Minister Kan’s cabinet reshuffling are in, and one of the ministers being replaced is Keiko Chiba (who had lost her seat in the Upper House election). When she was selected as Justice Minister under the first Kan cabinet, there was a lot of speculation about whether her longtime opposition to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another election coming up</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/103503/another-election-coming-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Sep 2010 08:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Swedish election is only a couple of days away. The polls open on Sunday &#8211; that&#039;s Sunday evening here, and we&#039;ll know the results on Monday morning. Throughout summer, the vaguely right ruling coalition and the sort-of left opposition have been more or less neck and neck, while the neo-Nazi Sweden democrats have been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Be careful what you ask for</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/103389/be-careful-what-you-ask-for/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Sep 2010 04:06:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BE CAREFUL what you ask for, say the gods, because you just might get it. Here’s a case in point. Toyota must be feeling slighted with the news that residents of the American state of Tennessee will be able to buy the new Nissan Leaf electric car at a sharp discount to the sticker price, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Be careful what you ask for</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/103400/be-careful-what-you-ask-for-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Sep 2010 04:06:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BE CAREFUL what you ask for, say the gods, because you just might get it. Here’s a case in point. Toyota must be feeling slighted with the news that residents of the American state of Tennessee will be able to buy the new Nissan Leaf electric car at a sharp discount to the sticker price, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kan the man</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/103208/kan-the-man/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Sep 2010 16:42:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[TO READ SOME descriptions in the English-language print media, one would think Japanese Prime Minister Kan Naoto is a “fiscal conservative” who is a “pragmatic reformer”. Very few politically aware Japanese would use those terms to describe Mr. Kan, however, particularly those of a certain age. Even those in the Democratic Party camp don’t use [...]]]></description>
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