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		<title>Kids’ conversations</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:47:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whenever I take the train there is something that I look forward to &#8211; the conversations of kids and young people.  It might seem distasteful, but it is a good opportunity to learn what kinds of things they are thinking about, what is popular, and what the hot topics are.  Today, while waiting on a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideaforesight.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13145857&amp;post=428&amp;subd=ideaforesight&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Working with Emerging Markets</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 05:47:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My work is mainly focused on qualitative research and data gathering for countries called emerging markets.  I thought that I would write about it after gaining a little more experience, but it would be good to write as a first step.  The countries I often request data and research from are (in order) China, India, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideaforesight.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13145857&amp;post=426&amp;subd=ideaforesight&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gold</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 07:15:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In response to the soaring price of gold (metal), there has been a boom in the buying and selling of gold.  We’re not talking about just the futures trading of gold, but in Japan gold, coins and other gold accessories lying in safes and homes is being bought and sold.  When to sell and when [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideaforesight.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13145857&amp;post=423&amp;subd=ideaforesight&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The dream airplane: B787</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 05:07:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On July 5th, a test flight of Boeing’s 787 (B787) landed at Japan’s Haneda Airport.  The development of the B787 is said to have started with ANA’s (All Nippon Airways) order in 2004.  The original plan was for the airplane to be in service for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, however due to part supply delays [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideaforesight.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13145857&amp;post=421&amp;subd=ideaforesight&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>“Thermae Romae”</title>
		<link>http://ideaforesight.wordpress.com/2011/07/01/%e2%80%9cthermae-romae%e2%80%9d/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 08:20:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Discovering things overseas that are similar to our own culture can be exciting.  For Japan, many things have come from overseas, particularly from the various countries in Asia.  Of course this isn’t something special to just Asia, but rather something you can see in countries of the Middle East (excluding North Africa) and European countries [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideaforesight.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13145857&amp;post=418&amp;subd=ideaforesight&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rice Cookers</title>
		<link>http://ideaforesight.wordpress.com/2011/06/14/rice-cookers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 05:10:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently purchased a new rice cooker.  Although there was nothing wrong with my old one, I had been using it for more than ten years and decided it was time for a “renewal.”  That’s when I found out a little more about rice cookers and was quite surprised.  With a rice cooker you can [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideaforesight.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13145857&amp;post=414&amp;subd=ideaforesight&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Small is Beautiful</title>
		<link>http://ideaforesight.wordpress.com/2011/05/22/small-is-beautiful/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 May 2011 07:45:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You probably know the phrase, “Small is beautiful.”  Often used in advertising, it’s a phrase that many people have likely heard.  It is the title of a book by English economist, E.F. Schumacher.  Published in 1973, the original title was “Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered.”  As you probably know, 1973 was the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideaforesight.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13145857&amp;post=412&amp;subd=ideaforesight&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Can Do&#8221; &#8211; When life gives you lemons, make lemonade</title>
		<link>http://ideaforesight.wordpress.com/2011/04/13/can-do-when-life-gives-you-lemons-make-lemonade/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 07:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you know the comic Dilbert?  It&#8217;s a comic strip by Scott Adams and in it was the phrase, &#8220;When life gives you lemons, make lemonade,&#8221; meaning that when life gives you sour lemons, you should make sweet lemonade.  In other words, no matter what happens, we can make use of it, and no matter [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideaforesight.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13145857&amp;post=406&amp;subd=ideaforesight&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We are Japanese, think positively, think positively.</title>
		<link>http://ideaforesight.wordpress.com/2011/03/18/we-are-japanese-think-positively-think-positively/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 11:39:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some of what is being reported in the foreign media, such as that Japan is “sinking,” is a little unfortunate.  Of course negative content is much more attention grabbing than learning the truth, however since we don’t know when or where the same type of event might occur, we want there to be calm and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideaforesight.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13145857&amp;post=398&amp;subd=ideaforesight&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant</title>
		<link>http://ideaforesight.wordpress.com/2011/03/16/fukushima-daiichi-nuclear-power-plant/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 07:32:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Japan is facing its greatest crisis.  From March 12th, news of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant worried people across the nation.  Hydrogen explosions in the No. 1 and No. 3 reactors were shocking, but information of today&#8217;s explosion of the No. 2 reactor seemed different, and at TEPCO&#8217;s morning press conference there were only [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideaforesight.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13145857&amp;post=393&amp;subd=ideaforesight&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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