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	<title>This Japanese Life. &#124; 生命を外面九天です &#187; Fukuoka</title>
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		<title>On Getting Arrested for Dancing in Japan</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 11:38:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>On Getting Ramen (and a Hangover) in Japan</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 12:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I took a cardboard box full of instant ramen with me to college.  I stocked up on $.30 vegetarian packages of the stuff just for the sake of the noodles. They remained in that box, tucked into a closet (no &#8230; <a href="http://thisjapaneselife.org/2012/03/07/ramen-hangover-food/">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=1227&#038;subd=owwls&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Elvis in Nakasu</title>
		<link>http://thisjapaneselife.org/2011/10/09/elvis-in-nakasu/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Oct 2011 11:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So this year I went back to catch a night of the Nakasu Festival. The festival is held in Fukuoka&#8217;s red-light district, full of host and hostess clubs and worse. During the festival, women from the community get together and &#8230; <a href="http://thisjapaneselife.org/2011/10/09/elvis-in-nakasu/">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=998&#038;subd=owwls&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is Japan a &#8220;Racist Monoculture&#8221;? On Anders Breivik&#8217;s Japan</title>
		<link>http://thisjapaneselife.org/2011/07/27/anders-breivik-japan-norway/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 13:07:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I was leaving the train station, I heard the Japanese national anthem. People were waving flags. Some guy was shouting about “gaikokujin” (&#8220;foreigners&#8221;) through a loud-speaker. I stopped and stared until a young flag-waving woman raised her bullhorn, looked &#8230; <a href="http://thisjapaneselife.org/2011/07/27/anders-breivik-japan-norway/">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=723&#038;subd=owwls&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On the Death of Japan</title>
		<link>http://thisjapaneselife.org/2011/07/06/on-the-death-of-japan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 13:50:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everywhere you look, people say Japan is dying. The Economist says Japan is dying. Curators say Japan is dying. The numbers say Japan is dying. There is no dispute that the Japanese get older as the children get scarcer: Ten &#8230; <a href="http://thisjapaneselife.org/2011/07/06/on-the-death-of-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=655&#038;subd=owwls&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The DNA of a Japanese Suburb</title>
		<link>http://thisjapaneselife.org/2010/12/29/the-dna-of-a-japanese-suburb/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Dec 2010 09:04:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;In many new office buildings the windows don&#8217;t open. In especially bad buildings, like the average Wal-Mart, windows are dispensed with nearly altogether. This process of disconnection from the past and the future, and from the organic patterns of weather &#8230; <a href="http://thisjapaneselife.org/2010/12/29/the-dna-of-a-japanese-suburb/">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=252&#038;subd=owwls&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Video/Audio: Nakasu Festival, Taiko Calligraphy</title>
		<link>http://thisjapaneselife.org/2010/10/10/videoaudio-nakasu-festival-taiko-calligraphy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Oct 2010 15:51:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In which I watch 50 women carry a heavy object and two guys proving how calligraphy is totally manly.  <a href="http://thisjapaneselife.org/2010/10/10/videoaudio-nakasu-festival-taiko-calligraphy/">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=212&#038;subd=owwls&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Japanese Insects</title>
		<link>http://thisjapaneselife.org/2010/08/19/on-japanese-insects/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 04:59:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A guide to the idiosyncratic wildlife found behind my house. <a href="http://thisjapaneselife.org/2010/08/19/on-japanese-insects/">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=129&#038;subd=owwls&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Off the Grid in Japan</title>
		<link>http://thisjapaneselife.org/2010/08/08/off-the-grid-in-japan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Aug 2010 10:34:02 +0000</pubDate>
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