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		<title>On Pilgrims</title>
		<link>http://thisjapaneselife.org/2014/01/29/on-the-expat-as-a-pilgrim/</link>
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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 Meeting a Strawberry in Japan</title>
		<link>http://thisjapaneselife.org/2013/07/24/ichigo-ichie-leaving-japan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jul 2013 13:15:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before I came to Japan, I told myself that this was a bit of practice for dying. It wasn&#8217;t the most upbeat assessment of moving abroad, but it rang true. I was about to end my life, or at least, &#8230; <a href="http://thisjapaneselife.org/2013/07/24/ichigo-ichie-leaving-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=1715&#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 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 Voting in America in Japan</title>
		<link>http://thisjapaneselife.org/2012/11/07/on-voting-in-america-in-japan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2012 15:02:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Most Important Election of Our Lifetime resurrects itself every four years like partisan cicada swarming into otherwise peaceful offices and family dinners. But I&#8217;ve finally silenced the chirping brood: If you want to get away from American politics, move &#8230; <a href="http://thisjapaneselife.org/2012/11/07/on-voting-in-america-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=1452&#038;subd=owwls&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Going and Coming Back in Japan</title>
		<link>http://thisjapaneselife.org/2012/05/17/japanese-abroad/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 16:08:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I carry my Japaneseness in my shoulders. Two years in Japan and I’m already compulsively bowing. I’ve developed an aversion to looking relaxed in any circumstance, having permanently adopted the paper-shuffling manner of Japanese bank clerks. I didn’t realize how &#8230; <a href="http://thisjapaneselife.org/2012/05/17/japanese-abroad/">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=1265&#038;subd=owwls&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Letting Go of a Tree Branch in Japan</title>
		<link>http://thisjapaneselife.org/2012/04/04/cherry-blossoms-sakura-haiku/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 12:30:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s about 4,000 kids outside my apartment screaming about cherry blossoms.  The gray and gloomy branches of last week have popped, sagging under the weight of white blossoms. I feel the weight of the cherry blossoms in my chest, hanging &#8230; <a href="http://thisjapaneselife.org/2012/04/04/cherry-blossoms-sakura-haiku/">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=1244&#038;subd=owwls&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Sneezing in Japan</title>
		<link>http://thisjapaneselife.org/2012/02/15/sneezing-in-japan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 12:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Japan, no one can hear you sneeze. OK, they can hear you, they just don&#8217;t erupt into spontaneous prayer. I&#8217;d ask, “What do you say in Japanese when people sneeze?” Occasionally I&#8217;d hear “odaiji ni” as an option. So &#8230; <a href="http://thisjapaneselife.org/2012/02/15/sneezing-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=1182&#038;subd=owwls&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Being a Teenage Punk in Japan</title>
		<link>http://thisjapaneselife.org/2011/11/02/on-being-a-teenage-punk-in-japan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 12:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I never really had a normal idea of what punk was. Neither does Japan. The Scene After cramming five shows and three venues into a single festival ticket, I feel like I&#8217;ve had an Anthro 101 course on 16-year-old Japanese &#8230; <a href="http://thisjapaneselife.org/2011/11/02/on-being-a-teenage-punk-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=1013&#038;subd=owwls&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Like Totally Living in the Now in Japan, You Know?</title>
		<link>http://thisjapaneselife.org/2011/08/31/on-like-totally-living-in-the-now-in-japan-brah/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 14:45:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Japan probably has more temples, shrines and gardens per capita than garbage cans or benches. You would think a country so heavily influenced by Buddhism would make it easy for a foreigner to stay open to the present. But life in &#8230; <a href="http://thisjapaneselife.org/2011/08/31/on-like-totally-living-in-the-now-in-japan-brah/">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=875&#038;subd=owwls&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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