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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Frances Koston and Peter van den Brink are creative art director and publisher of Catch Publishing, which is known for  innovative, top-qualitity and much-imitated calendars, posters, postcards and greeting cards.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Rev. Claudia Genung is drumming up support for a rally this Monday against the SDF dispatch to Iraq and changing Japan's peace Constitution.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nofil Iqbal is bringing the first cable television network catering to expats from the Indian subcontinent -- and cricket fans from anywhere -- to Japan, which until now has been the only developed nation to lack Indian TV.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yuri Morita has written over 20 books, introduced child abuse prevention to Japan and established the Empowerment Center for professional and personal training.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Paul A. Clark, founder fo the Fraternity of the Hidden Light and author of "By Names and Images: Initiation in the Western Mystery Tradition," will be the keynote speaker at Japan's first International Symposium of Western Inner Tradition.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Landscape designer Ai Sato tends a resident of a Missionaries of Charity orphanage for handicapped children in Calcutta.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dwayne Lawler will bring his idiosyncratic version of Shakespeare's "Macbeth" - using heavy metal music and "hakama" costumes - to Tokyo's New National Theater for one night only, giving the classic "an MTV treatment" for the easily bored and "coloring" the production to match both the stage and the Japanese setting.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2004-09-21T09:00:47+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/community/2004/09/25/general/new-center-for-creative-arts-up-and-running/</loc>
		<lastmod>2004-09-25T09:00:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Balanced Brains behind the unique bilingual learning environment at the New Center for Creative Arts, from left: Creative Director Kristin Newton, Marking Director Mayumi Murata, Administrative Director Lia Howe and Administrant Assistant Kae Okachi.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/community/2004/09/25/our-lives/look-at-the-moon-hiraite-chong-chong/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2004-09-28T09:00:31+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/community/2004/09/28/how-tos/new-talent-cheap-fares-and-stds/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/community/2004/10/09/general/sisterly-reporting-from-catholic-feminist-view/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/community/2004/10/16/general/good-day-books-to-touch-base-with-literary-icon/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Edward Seidensticker, translator of "The Tale of Genji" and author of "Low City, High City," will be appearing at Good Day Books in Tokyo on Oct. 24.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2004-10-23T09:02:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tom nevins pioneered labor consulting for multinational firms in Japan, and his firm TMT is the only company that also offers recruitment services.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/community/2004/10/26/voices/do-you-think-global-warming-is-behind-the-recent-freakish-weather/</loc>
		<lastmod>2004-10-26T09:00:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sonia Ito, a presenter pn TV's soccer show "Football CX," is also a trained anthropologist, an interpreter for F1 racing and K1 boxing, and a teachar of Portuguese.]]></image:caption>
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