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		<title>On Being Bullied in Japan</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2013 13:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been overwhelmed by the sweetness of Japanese kids. One student, seeing me without an umbrella, ran backward through the rain to walk with me under hers. Another classroom, after a lesson on how Christmas was different in America, &#8230; <a href="http://thisjapaneselife.org/2013/06/12/japan-ijime-bullies/">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=1649&#038;subd=owwls&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Eating School Lunch in Japan, Part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 13:05:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, we looked at the history of middle-school lunches in Japan. For some reason, we&#8217;re doing it again today; only this time with a focus on what lunch is like in the modern day. Foodies The Ministry of Education states &#8230; <a href="http://thisjapaneselife.org/2013/04/25/school-lunch-japan-kyuushoku/">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=1599&#038;subd=owwls&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Eating School Lunch in Japan, Part 1</title>
		<link>http://thisjapaneselife.org/2013/04/24/school-lunch-in-japan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 13:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eating lunch at a Junior High School in America was my first confrontation with the absurdity of my situation as a student. It&#8217;s an introduction to Lord-of-the-Flies social dynamics. The combination of half-formed brains, hormones, and the task of obtaining &#8230; <a href="http://thisjapaneselife.org/2013/04/24/school-lunch-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=1595&#038;subd=owwls&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Pretending to Know About Education in Japan, pt. 3: Paying for It</title>
		<link>http://thisjapaneselife.org/2012/07/12/costs-of-education-japan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2012 14:58:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We’ve been imagining a future for Tetsuo, our imaginary middle-upper-class Japanese child. We’ve assumed a moderate degree of financial difficulty in getting Tetsuo-kun into university, but nothing too major: We’ve been blandly middle-class. While Japan is proud of its illusion &#8230; <a href="http://thisjapaneselife.org/2012/07/12/costs-of-education-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=1340&#038;subd=owwls&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Pretending to Know About Education in Japan, pt 2: On Getting Into High School (and University)</title>
		<link>http://thisjapaneselife.org/2012/07/11/japan-entrance-exams/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jul 2012 14:58:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We last left our fictional Japanese son, Tetsuo, in his final year of junior high, preparing for high school entrance exams. You and I &#8211; his loving, middle-class parents, and you, my adorable wife, who is almost too infatuated with &#8230; <a href="http://thisjapaneselife.org/2012/07/11/japan-entrance-exams/">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=1335&#038;subd=owwls&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Pretending to Know About Education in Japan, pt 1: The System!</title>
		<link>http://thisjapaneselife.org/2012/07/09/japan-high-school-education/</link>
		<comments>http://thisjapaneselife.org/2012/07/09/japan-high-school-education/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2012 02:59:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After spending two years in a Japanese High School and having multiple conversations with people who actually know how things work, I’m happy to return to my journalistic roots by pretending I&#8217;m an authority on something I’ve barely scratched the &#8230; <a href="http://thisjapaneselife.org/2012/07/09/japan-high-school-education/">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=1329&#038;subd=owwls&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Not Speaking English in Japan</title>
		<link>http://thisjapaneselife.org/2012/05/31/japan-english-teaching/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2012 15:01:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently helped some Taiwanese students come to town. The weeks leading up to their arrival were confusing. We had drawn up plans for their arrival and e-mailed them, and a few weeks later we still had no reply. “I &#8230; <a href="http://thisjapaneselife.org/2012/05/31/japan-english-teaching/">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=1277&#038;subd=owwls&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Being Selfish in Japan</title>
		<link>http://thisjapaneselife.org/2011/12/07/japanese-selfish-america/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 12:30:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I remember my high school French club. The kids smoked too young, wore black turtlenecks and talked about Camus, or more precisely, “spoke of Camus.” The German club ate strudel, listened to unbearable polka and occasionally invaded the French club. &#8230; <a href="http://thisjapaneselife.org/2011/12/07/japanese-selfish-america/">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=1087&#038;subd=owwls&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Awkwardly Consoling Japanese Schoolgirls</title>
		<link>http://thisjapaneselife.org/2011/11/09/japan-schoolgirls-notporn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 11:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are only so many things I know how to say in Japanese. I&#8217;ve learned that none of them can stop a 15-year-old Japanese girl from crying. There’s “daijobu,” and “daijobu desu ka?” &#8211; “It’s alright,” and, “are you alright?” &#8230; <a href="http://thisjapaneselife.org/2011/11/09/japan-schoolgirls-notporn/">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=1031&#038;subd=owwls&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Teaching English as an Out of Body Experience &#124; 英語は儚いです.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Oct 2010 16:33:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Language exists inside of our skulls and escapes through the tongue: What Nabokov called &#8220;A fat sleek seal flopping so happily among the familiar rocks.&#8221; It&#8217;s a chunk of flesh that helps us push ideas out from our squishy insides &#8230; <a href="http://thisjapaneselife.org/2010/10/18/on-teaching-english-as-an-out-of-body-experience-%e8%8b%b1%e8%aa%9e%e3%81%af%e5%84%9a%e3%81%84%e3%81%a7%e3%81%99/">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=216&#038;subd=owwls&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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