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		<title>On Praying to a Fox in Japan</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nobody in Japan seems to know anything about Shinto. Stop by a shrine and watch people. You&#8217;ll see plenty of variety in what you&#8217;d think would be a ritual. People approach the temple and ring the bell, then clap, then &#8230; <a href="http://thisjapaneselife.org/2013/03/13/modern-shinto-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=1540&#038;subd=owwls&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Neurotic&#8217;s Travel Guide to Kyoto, Part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2012 13:16:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You can read part one of the Neurotic&#8217;s Travel Guide to Kyoto here. Yasaka Shrine There is no ignorance, and no end to ignorance. There is no old age and death, and no end to old age and death. There &#8230; <a href="http://thisjapaneselife.org/2012/10/18/the-neurotics-travel-guide-to-kyoto-part-2/">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=1425&#038;subd=owwls&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Neurotic&#8217;s Travel Guide to Kyoto, Part 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2012 13:35:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kyoto is for lovers! Shijo Dori  Some might say that Kyoto is not about romance. There are temples and shrines everywhere, some of the oldest in the country, and so Kyoto could be considered the spiritual heart of Japan. But &#8230; <a href="http://thisjapaneselife.org/2012/10/17/kyoto-travel-guide-neurotic/">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=1416&#038;subd=owwls&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Getting Lucky in Japan</title>
		<link>http://thisjapaneselife.org/2012/01/18/luck-in-japan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:56:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[No, not like that. Arudo Rangu Sein I celebrated New Year&#8217;s Day in a purely traditional Japanese style &#8211; that is, 12 hours of drinking in English pubs, followed by karaoke and visits to shrines before crashing to bed at &#8230; <a href="http://thisjapaneselife.org/2012/01/18/luck-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=1139&#038;subd=owwls&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Japanese Cats</title>
		<link>http://thisjapaneselife.org/2011/12/14/on-japanese-cats/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:33:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week: Japan, in five cats. Cafe Cats The best thing you can do before entering a cat cafe is to lower your expectations. Long considered top of my Japan to-do list, my first cat cafe &#8211; and all subsequent cat &#8230; <a href="http://thisjapaneselife.org/2011/12/14/on-japanese-cats/">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=1102&#038;subd=owwls&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Demonic Umbrellas and Japanese Banking</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 12:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Japan, many ATMs work from 9 to 5 and get weekends and holidays off. That&#8217;s better than most humans get. And the reason, I suspect, has more to do with ghosts than any bank is willing to admit. True &#8230; <a href="http://thisjapaneselife.org/2011/10/26/japan-atm-kasa-obake/">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=1024&#038;subd=owwls&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Lenin’s Feet and the Taxi-Driving Buddha</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 13:01:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you visit Kyoto, you may stumble into a small home next door to a shrine and, as you&#8217;re looking for the shrine entrance, a woman may ask you for 500 yen and assure you that there is English being &#8230; <a href="http://thisjapaneselife.org/2011/10/05/lenins-feet/">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=901&#038;subd=owwls&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Nature in Japan, or: On Getting Killed By a Wild Goat in America</title>
		<link>http://thisjapaneselife.org/2011/09/21/nature-in-japan-goat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 13:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Signs were erected to warn hikers about aggressive mountain goats in Olympic National Park. Imagine, if you can, the mountain goats of the Pacific Northwest. They look like messed-up dogs or disappointing unicorns; they eat lichen in the wild and &#8230; <a href="http://thisjapaneselife.org/2011/09/21/nature-in-japan-goat/">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=855&#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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		<title>On Obon: Japan&#8217;s Homecoming Game, with Ghosts.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 14:38:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s an old Buddhist story about a monk named Mahamaudgalyayana &#8211; let&#8217;s call him Mokuren, for short &#8211; who was doing alright, as monks go, and had finally developed the skill of peering into the world of the dead. Mokuren, being &#8230; <a href="http://thisjapaneselife.org/2011/08/10/japan-obon-holiday-story/">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=747&#038;subd=owwls&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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