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		<title>A Hiatus</title>
		<link>http://sigma1.wordpress.com/2013/04/02/a-hiatus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 10:24:56 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Japan and Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japan Security Watch]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am coming to a crucial part of my PhD studies (the end) and I don&#8217;t have as much time to pay attention to the comings and goings of Japanese domestic politics right now. I will attempt to post something &#8230; <a href="http://sigma1.wordpress.com/2013/04/02/a-hiatus/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sigma1.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11676357&#038;post=1275&#038;subd=sigma1&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>While it Has Gone Quiet within the Senkakus&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://sigma1.wordpress.com/2013/02/09/while-it-has-gone-quiet-within-the-senkakus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2013 07:49:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>σ1</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Japan and Security]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The PRC response has finally come through over the last 24 hours. But it has been unsatisfying and shaky, ranging from surprise, to righteous condemnation of Japan&#8217;s motives, declaring the incident to be an &#8220;absolute fabrication,&#8221; now to arguing that &#8230; <a href="http://sigma1.wordpress.com/2013/02/09/while-it-has-gone-quiet-within-the-senkakus/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sigma1.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11676357&#038;post=1269&#038;subd=sigma1&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Those Dramatic Japanese&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://sigma1.wordpress.com/2013/02/07/those-dramatic-japanese/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2013 09:50:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This China Daily &#8220;report&#8221; demonstrates two notable things. 1)  Japan&#8217;s campaign to accuse Chinese radars of &#8220;locking onto&#8221; a Japanese warship is more like a &#8220;political drama&#8230;Jiang Xinfeng, an expert on Japanese studies at the PLA Academy of Military Sciences, &#8230; <a href="http://sigma1.wordpress.com/2013/02/07/those-dramatic-japanese/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sigma1.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11676357&#038;post=1259&#038;subd=sigma1&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Fire-Control Radar Incident: Incompetence or Malice?</title>
		<link>http://sigma1.wordpress.com/2013/02/07/the-fire-control-radar-incident-incompetence-or-malice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2013 04:12:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>σ1</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When last year&#8217;s Defense White Paper (&#8220;Defense of Japan&#8221;) came out there was much media commentary over whether it represented a new direction for Japanese security policy towards China. I argued at the Shingetsu News Agency that such rhetoric was &#8230; <a href="http://sigma1.wordpress.com/2013/02/07/the-fire-control-radar-incident-incompetence-or-malice/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sigma1.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11676357&#038;post=1249&#038;subd=sigma1&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pinning Down the LDP</title>
		<link>http://sigma1.wordpress.com/2013/01/21/pinning-down-the-ldp/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2013 03:32:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>σ1</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hashimoto Toru]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Maehara Seiji]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What does the DPJ, and/or the opposition in general, need to do before the House of Councillors elections in the second half of the year to either have a chance of preventing the LDP gaining a majority in both houses, &#8230; <a href="http://sigma1.wordpress.com/2013/01/21/pinning-down-the-ldp/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sigma1.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11676357&#038;post=1240&#038;subd=sigma1&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Perspective on Japan from a Japanese Expert on the US</title>
		<link>http://sigma1.wordpress.com/2013/01/19/perspective-on-japan-from-a-japanese-expert-on-the-us/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2013 00:43:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>σ1</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After an enforced holiday up in the Far North of New Zealand &#8211; a wonderful part of the world as I now know &#8211; and in the process of catching up on various events I want to point towards the &#8230; <a href="http://sigma1.wordpress.com/2013/01/19/perspective-on-japan-from-a-japanese-expert-on-the-us/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sigma1.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11676357&#038;post=1237&#038;subd=sigma1&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The New PRC Documents on the Senkaku Islands</title>
		<link>http://sigma1.wordpress.com/2012/12/28/the-new-prc-documents-on-the-senkaku-islands/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Dec 2012 03:35:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>σ1</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As noted in my fuller exposition of the developments over at Japan Security Watch, Jiji Press went big yesterday (日) with apparently revelations that the Chinese, according to the PRC&#8217;s own official documents, actually considered the Senkaku Islands to be &#8230; <a href="http://sigma1.wordpress.com/2012/12/28/the-new-prc-documents-on-the-senkaku-islands/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sigma1.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11676357&#038;post=1232&#038;subd=sigma1&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Japanese Elections: &#8220;Least-hated&#8221; rather than Popularity Contests</title>
		<link>http://sigma1.wordpress.com/2012/12/19/japanese-elections-least-hated-rather-than-popularity-contests/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2012 10:18:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>σ1</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Consumption Tax]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A lot of Japanese opinion polls tend to be of limited analytical value &#8211; either the questions are too general, too focused on &#8220;political&#8221; rather than policy issues, or are simply obscure and give no indication about priorities. However, the &#8230; <a href="http://sigma1.wordpress.com/2012/12/19/japanese-elections-least-hated-rather-than-popularity-contests/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sigma1.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11676357&#038;post=1229&#038;subd=sigma1&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pendulum Districts 2012</title>
		<link>http://sigma1.wordpress.com/2012/12/18/pendulum-districts-2012/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2012 23:53:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>σ1</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Domestic Politics 2012]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to the Asahi Shimbun (日), 145 SMDs went for the LDP/Komeito in 2005, DPJ in 2009, and then again for the LDP/Komeito in 2012 (what the Asahi terms the &#8220;pendulum phenomenon&#8221;). 71 one of them were in the urban metropolis of &#8230; <a href="http://sigma1.wordpress.com/2012/12/18/pendulum-districts-2012/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sigma1.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11676357&#038;post=1214&#038;subd=sigma1&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>And Just How Bad Was it for the DPJ?</title>
		<link>http://sigma1.wordpress.com/2012/12/17/and-just-how-bad-was-it-for-the-dpj/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2012 04:08:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>σ1</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Election 2012]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bad. Actually, very, very bad. While the DPJ managed to just pip the Japan Restoration Party for second place with 57 seats (down from 308), the &#8220;third pole&#8221; parties still did overall quite well with the JRP getting 54 and Your Party getting 18, &#8230; <a href="http://sigma1.wordpress.com/2012/12/17/and-just-how-bad-was-it-for-the-dpj/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sigma1.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11676357&#038;post=1206&#038;subd=sigma1&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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