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	<title>ECU - Japan League</title>
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	<description>East Carolina University Asian Film &#38; Culture Club</description>
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		<title>March 17th - Audition (1999)</title>
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When a Japanese widower holds an audition to search for a potential mate, he finds more than he expected in this eerie thriller.
Movie Begins at 5:30PM in Bate 1032
Seven years after the death of his wife, company executive Aoyama is invited to sit in on auditions for an actress. Leafing through the resumés in advance, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ecujapan.org/2009/03/05/march-17th-audition-1999/</link>
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		<title>For Japan, a Long, Slow Slide</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From The Washington Post by Blaine Harden - 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>
		<link>http://ecujapan.org/2009/02/25/for-japan-a-long-slow-slide/</link>
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		<title>Godzilla and Hiroshima</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Professor John Mertz from NC State will give a lecture this Saturday on Godzilla and Hiroshima. The lecture will be delivered in Science and Technology, OC-209, at 1:00 pm.
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		<link>http://ecujapan.org/2009/02/24/godzilla-and-hiroshima/</link>
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		<title>February 24th - Gojira (1954)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A 164-foot monster reptile with radioactive breath is revived, thanks to nuclear testing. It goes on a mad rampage, destroying Tokyo - how will they kill it?
Movie Begins at 5:30PM in Bate 1032
Japan is thrown into a panic after several ships explode and are sunk. At first the authorities think its either underwater mines or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ecujapan.org/2009/02/23/february-24th-gojira-1954/</link>
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		<title>Learn to Be Nice to Your Wife, or Pay the Price</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From The Washington Post by Blaine Harden - Salarymen &#8212; the black-suited corporate warriors who work long hours, spend long evenings drinking with cronies and stumble home late to long-suffering wives &#8212; have danger waiting for them as they near retirement.
Divorce. A change in Japanese law this year allows a wife who is filing for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ecujapan.org/2008/10/13/learn-to-be-nice-to-your-wife-or-pay-the-price/</link>
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		<title>The amazing monkey waiters that serve tables in a Japanese restaurant</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the Daily Mail - A Japanese restaurant has changed the face of customer service by employing two monkeys to help with the table service.
The Kayabukiya tavern, a traditional &#8217;sake house&#8217; north of Tokyo has employed a pair of uniformed Japanese macaque called Yat-chan and Fuku-chan to serve patrons.
Twelve-year-old Yat-chan is the crowd-pleaser as he [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ecujapan.org/2008/10/09/the-amazing-monkey-waiters-that-serve-tables-in-a-japanese-restaurant/</link>
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		<title>There&#8217;s gold in Japan&#8217;s landfills</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Japanese 10,000 Yen (~$94) Gold Coin From Times Online by Leo Lewis - Japan&#8217;s high-tech rubbish dumps - the vast “urban mines” of landfill outside every big city - have grown so huge that the country now ranks among the biggest natural resource nations in the world.
Tens of millions of defunct mobile phones, discarded televisions, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ecujapan.org/2008/10/06/theres-gold-in-japans-landfills/</link>
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		<title>Japanese Girl Sensation: Virtual Boyfriends</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From Tech Crunch by Serkan Toto - In Japan, girls are crazy over virtual boyfriends. Webkare (Web Boyfriend in Japanese), a mix between a social network and dating simulation site, is Nippon’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>
		<link>http://ecujapan.org/2008/09/29/japanese-girl-sensation-virtual-boyfriends/</link>
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		<title>Fearing Crime, Japanese Wear the Hiding Place</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From The New York Times by Martin Fackler - 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 Japan’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>
		<link>http://ecujapan.org/2008/09/28/fearing-crime-japanese-wear-the-hiding-place/</link>
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		<title>Japanese Begin Working On Space Elevator</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Japanese Space Elevator From Times Online by Leo Lewis - 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>
		<link>http://ecujapan.org/2008/09/22/japanese-begin-working-on-space-elevator/</link>
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