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		<title>On Pilgrims</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jan 2014 08:57:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I live on Tabard Street in London, one of the original streets leading into the city proper, a site where pilgrims gathered before departing the city (such as those in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales) or upon arriving in it. The entire &#8230; <a href="http://thisjapaneselife.org/2014/01/29/on-the-expat-as-a-pilgrim/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisjapaneselife.org&#038;blog=14259673&#038;post=1936&#038;subd=owwls&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Having Sex With an Octopus in Japan</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Oct 2013 15:30:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There’s an old joke that any revolutionary tool mankind creates to express our highest ideals and ambitions will always simultaneously be used for pornography. In Japan, that pornography-technology relationship is tied to scroll paintings and  printmaking. Luckily for me, a &#8230; <a href="http://thisjapaneselife.org/2013/10/09/shunga-japanese-erotica/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisjapaneselife.org&#038;blog=14259673&#038;post=1810&#038;subd=owwls&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Drinking Coke in a Liminal State in Nepal</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Aug 2013 15:41:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a Tibetan word, &#8220;Bardo,&#8221; that refers to the space between different lifetimes. &#8220;Bar&#8221; means &#8220;in between,&#8221; while &#8220;do&#8221; refers to a tower or mountaintop. &#8220;Bardo&#8221; could be read as &#8220;the tower in between.&#8221; Here in Nepal, where Tibetan Buddhism &#8230; <a href="http://thisjapaneselife.org/2013/08/15/on-drinking-coke-in-a-liminal-state-in-nepal/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisjapaneselife.org&#038;blog=14259673&#038;post=1762&#038;subd=owwls&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Being a Crow in Japan</title>
		<link>http://thisjapaneselife.org/2013/07/10/japanese-crows-expats/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jul 2013 13:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week, another guest post from former Japanese expat Alanna Schubach.  Shortly after moving to Japan I began having a dream that would recur for the duration of my time there. There were minor variations, but the story was always &#8230; <a href="http://thisjapaneselife.org/2013/07/10/japanese-crows-expats/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisjapaneselife.org&#038;blog=14259673&#038;post=1698&#038;subd=owwls&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Caring About Your Lonely Friends in Japan</title>
		<link>http://thisjapaneselife.org/2013/06/05/loneliness-expats-japan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jun 2013 13:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not everyone who moves to Japan is lonely when they arrive, but most are by the time they leave. One can&#8217;t reasonably complain about it, of course: We do it to ourselves. But we can try to understand how loneliness &#8230; <a href="http://thisjapaneselife.org/2013/06/05/loneliness-expats-japan/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisjapaneselife.org&#038;blog=14259673&#038;post=1639&#038;subd=owwls&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Losing Control in Japan</title>
		<link>http://thisjapaneselife.org/2013/05/29/adjustment-and-influence-japan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2013 14:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[America, Japan has a question for you. Try to think of ten recent moments where you gracefully adjusted to a change you didn&#8217;t agree with. You didn&#8217;t resist or put up a fuss. Jot it down, with the date. Then, &#8230; <a href="http://thisjapaneselife.org/2013/05/29/adjustment-and-influence-japan/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisjapaneselife.org&#038;blog=14259673&#038;post=1636&#038;subd=owwls&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Staying Sane as an Expat in Japan</title>
		<link>http://thisjapaneselife.org/2013/05/22/7-ideas-for-staying-sane-as-an-expat-in-japan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 14:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a few months left before starting my new life in London, but I&#8217;ve already filled 11 rubbish bags to bursting with the debris of my life in Japan. Nothing can stay, and the lack of sentimentality I&#8217;m forced &#8230; <a href="http://thisjapaneselife.org/2013/05/22/7-ideas-for-staying-sane-as-an-expat-in-japan/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisjapaneselife.org&#038;blog=14259673&#038;post=1626&#038;subd=owwls&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Inventing Yourself in Japan</title>
		<link>http://thisjapaneselife.org/2013/05/08/on-inventing-yourself-in-japan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 13:45:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Living in Japan is living in a thought experiment. What if you could take away the institutional cues from your environment – your idea of a hospital vs a clinic, for example; the idea of what policemen do, or the &#8230; <a href="http://thisjapaneselife.org/2013/05/08/on-inventing-yourself-in-japan/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisjapaneselife.org&#038;blog=14259673&#038;post=1609&#038;subd=owwls&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Awkward Acts of Generosity in Japan</title>
		<link>http://thisjapaneselife.org/2013/04/17/japan-kindness-obligation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 13:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It should have been a yes or no question. It was exam day for high schools in my prefecture, and so teachers were forbidden to leave the building, lest they pass on crucial details of the test to the legion &#8230; <a href="http://thisjapaneselife.org/2013/04/17/japan-kindness-obligation/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisjapaneselife.org&#038;blog=14259673&#038;post=1576&#038;subd=owwls&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Being Alone in an Office In Japan</title>
		<link>http://thisjapaneselife.org/2013/02/19/alone-japan-expat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 11:13:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ This week, a guest post from former Japanese expat Alanna Schubach.  At some point during my first year in Japan, I read Don DeLillo’s The Names, about an expatriate working in Greece. He comes to dread the daily interactions with &#8230; <a href="http://thisjapaneselife.org/2013/02/19/alone-japan-expat/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisjapaneselife.org&#038;blog=14259673&#038;post=1506&#038;subd=owwls&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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