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		<title>On Driving a Train Off the Rails in Japan</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Sep 2013 14:50:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was just after the morning rush on an April day in Amagasaki, a city of about half a million people close to Osaka. A JR commuter train was taking a bend on the track when it derailed, crashing into &#8230; <a href="http://thisjapaneselife.org/2013/09/18/train-accidents-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=1792&#038;subd=owwls&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Finding God in a Gourd in Naoshima (In Japan)</title>
		<link>http://thisjapaneselife.org/2013/06/26/naoshima-japan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jun 2013 13:30:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Architecture appears for the first time when the sunlight hits a wall. The sunlight did not know what it was before it hit a wall.” ― Louis Kahn Freud claimed God was only the lingering memory of our parents, looming over us &#8230; <a href="http://thisjapaneselife.org/2013/06/26/naoshima-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=1669&#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>
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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 Festivals in Japan</title>
		<link>http://thisjapaneselife.org/2013/04/03/on-festivals-in-japan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 14:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you really want to express your feelings, it helps to carry a one-ton shrine around the city at 5 in the morning while having cold water poured on your back. Every summer you&#8217;re bound to run into a street &#8230; <a href="http://thisjapaneselife.org/2013/04/03/on-festivals-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=1555&#038;subd=owwls&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Praying to a Fox in Japan</title>
		<link>http://thisjapaneselife.org/2013/03/13/modern-shinto-japan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 13:15:24 +0000</pubDate>
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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>On Having No Comment in Japan</title>
		<link>http://thisjapaneselife.org/2013/03/06/mokusatsu-hiroshima-japan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2013 13:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In July of 1945 the United States prepared to test the first atomic bomb in a dusty corner of New Mexico. Amongst the small cadre of scientists who were aware of the Trinity Project – even the US Vice President &#8230; <a href="http://thisjapaneselife.org/2013/03/06/mokusatsu-hiroshima-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=1528&#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 the Neighbor&#8217;s Children</title>
		<link>http://thisjapaneselife.org/2012/07/25/the-neighbors-children/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2012 14:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The neighbor&#8217;s children wake up early on the weekend. They gather in the courtyard and perform a choreographed stretching exercise. Children across the country learn this routine, set to a piano piece, and the motions indicate &#8211; to me, anyway &#8211; &#8230; <a href="http://thisjapaneselife.org/2012/07/25/the-neighbors-children/">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=1357&#038;subd=owwls&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Turning on the Japanese Air Conditioner</title>
		<link>http://thisjapaneselife.org/2012/07/18/air-conditioning-shinto-japan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 14:45:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There’s nothing simple about turning on an air conditioner in Japan. In trains and public offices across the country, the air conditioner is controlled, as are all things, by a faceless bureaucracy. When I worked in an American TV shop, &#8230; <a href="http://thisjapaneselife.org/2012/07/18/air-conditioning-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=1347&#038;subd=owwls&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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