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		<title>For Japan, a Long, Slow Slide</title>
		<link>http://ecujapan.org/2009/02/25/for-japan-a-long-slow-slide/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:38:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From The Washington Post by Blaine Harden &#8211; As the United States frets noisily about a recession, Japan is quietly enduring a far more fundamental economic slide, one that seems irreversible.
This country, which got rich quick in a postwar miracle of manufacturing and alarmed Americans by buying up baubles such as Rockefeller Center, is steadily [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japanese Girl Sensation: Virtual Boyfriends</title>
		<link>http://ecujapan.org/2008/09/29/japanese-girl-sensation-virtual-boyfriends/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:35:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xander</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Tech Crunch by Serkan Toto &#8211; In Japan, girls are crazy over virtual boyfriends. Webkare (Web Boyfriend in Japanese), a mix between a social network and dating simulation site, is Nipponâ€™s newest web sensation.  Geared exclusively towards girls, the site attracted over 10,000 members just 5 days after its release on September 10, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fearing Crime, Japanese Wear the Hiding Place</title>
		<link>http://ecujapan.org/2008/09/28/fearing-crime-japanese-wear-the-hiding-place/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 19:21:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xander</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From The New York Times by Martin Fackler &#8211; On a narrow Tokyo street, near a beef bowl restaurant and a pachinko parlor, Aya Tsukioka demonstrated new clothing designs that she hopes will ease Japanâ€™s growing fears of crime.
Deftly, Ms. Tsukioka, a 29-year-old experimental fashion designer, lifted a flap on her skirt to reveal a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japanese Begin Working On Space Elevator</title>
		<link>http://ecujapan.org/2008/09/22/japanese-begin-working-on-space-elevator/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:14:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xander</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Japanese Space Elevator From Times Online by Leo Lewis &#8211; From cyborg housemaids and waterpowered cars to dog translators and rocket boots, Japanese boffins have racked up plenty of near-misses in the quest to turn science fiction into reality.
Now the finest scientific minds of Japan are devoting themselves to cracking the greatest sci-fi vision of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why MySpace and Facebook Are Failing in Japan</title>
		<link>http://ecujapan.org/2008/08/08/why-myspace-and-facebook-are-failing-in-japan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 19:29:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xander</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From xkcdFrom Tech Crunch by Serkan Toto &#8211; Sized at an estimated $5.6 billion in 2007, Japan boasts one of the biggest online advertising markets in the world â€“ a huge potential just waiting to be tapped by foreign social networks. The worldâ€™s two largest social networks, MySpace and Facebook, barely register in Japan. As [...]]]></description>
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		<title>USB Necktie/fan Keeps You Cool and Single</title>
		<link>http://ecujapan.org/2007/08/11/usb-necktiefan-keeps-you-cool-and-single/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Aug 2007 21:39:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xander</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Rare Mono Shop &#8211; This heat which continues still. Especially, because the white-collar worker has done the necktie, the wind being difficult to enter in the body, all the more it is hot, it is, don&#8217;t you think?.
Such a time, just a little it is introduction of the cool item. Because the USB necktie [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hello Kitty Costume For Cats</title>
		<link>http://ecujapan.org/2007/08/03/hello-kitty-costume-for-cats/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Aug 2007 03:03:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xander</dc:creator>
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Found on who-sucks &#8211; Our nightmares have come true: Hello Kitty is real.
A Japanese pet apparel company is selling a special edition costume that they guarantee will make your cat look like the spitting image of Hello Kitty. The official Sanrio-approved costume includes a hat and &#8216;blouse&#8217;, and it only costs 18,900 yen (160 US [...]]]></description>
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		<link>http://ecujapan.org/2007/08/01/mazda-will-deliver-rotary-hydrogen-vehicle-to-japan%e2%80%99s-meti/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2007 01:02:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xander</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mazda dual-fueled RX-8From 4wheelsblog &#8211; Mazda Motor Corporation has announced that the company is to deliver one dual-fueled RX-8 Hydrogen Rotary Engine (RE) vehicle to Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry (METI) on August 1, 2007. The dual-fuel system enables the driver to select either gasoline or hydrogen fuel with the flick of a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Village of the Dammed</title>
		<link>http://ecujapan.org/2007/07/27/the-village-of-the-dammed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jul 2007 01:50:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xander</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An elderly woman walks along a slope nearTokuyama village before it was flooded in 1995to make a reservoir. By Tomoko Otake, from The Japan Times &#8211; Shortly after being relocated to other towns in the late 1980s to make way for Japan&#8217;s largest dam, about 10 aging former residents defiantly returned to the abandoned village [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Stuff Works: The Yakuza</title>
		<link>http://ecujapan.org/2007/07/24/how-stuff-works-the-yakuza/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2007 05:43:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xander</dc:creator>
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From How Stuff Works &#8211; The Yakuza is the name given to organized criminal gangs from Japan. The Yakuza is not a single organization but rather a collection of separate gangs or clans akin to the American Mafia. These violent criminals have left their fingerprints on many aspects of Japanese life, from lowly gambling and [...]]]></description>
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