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      <title>Violent words on the web</title>  
      <description>Japan's polite society masks a hidden and aggressive online world</description>  
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      <title>Japan's obsession with perfect fruit</title>  
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      <title>In pictures: Japan's perfect fruit</title>  
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      <title>Japan's contradictory military might</title>  
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      <title>Japan: Then and now</title>  
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      <title>Challenging tradition</title>  
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      <title>Nagasaki: One Square Mile of Japan</title>  
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      <title>Radiation fears split Fukushima community</title>  
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      <title>Your pictures: Japan</title>  
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      <title>Daunting challenge of Fukushima clean-up</title>  
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      <title>Working Lives Kyoto</title>  
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      <title>Japan in facts and figures</title>  
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      <title>Mexico Direct</title>  
      <description>Features and analysis from the land of the Mayans</description>  
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      <title>UK Direct</title>  
      <description>Welcoming the world in 2012</description>  
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      <title>India Direct</title>  
      <description>Delving deeper into the world's biggest democracy</description>  
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      <pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:24:17 GMT</pubDate>  
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      <title>Taiwan Direct</title>  
      <description>Analysis and features about a country at the crossroads</description>  
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      <pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 15:59:33 GMT</pubDate>  
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      <title>Malaysia Direct</title>  
      <description>The background stories from an Asian powerhouse</description>  
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      <description>Behind the headlines in the world's most populous Muslim nation</description>  
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      <title>Ukraine Direct</title>  
      <description>A look behind the headlines at life in Ukraine</description>  
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