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Note the controversy being reported by BBC, <span style="mso-bidi-font-size:
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Agence France-Presse, Asahi Shimbun, and other newspapers around the world </span>
concerning the cover for the Jan 2014 issue of the JSAI Journal, Vol 29, no.1, 2014
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size:
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size:
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size:
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size:
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt">Agence France-Presse, 10 January 2014<span style="mso-font-kerning:
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size:
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</span>BBC, 10 January 2014<span style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-25680951">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-25680951</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The Asahi Shimbun article includes a quotation from Hideyuki Hirakawa, STS, Osaka University</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://hideyukihirakawa.com/index-e.html">http://hideyukihirakawa.com/index-e.html</a>
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