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		<title>On Festivals in Japan</title>
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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>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 Turning on the Japanese Air Conditioner</title>
		<link>http://thisjapaneselife.org/2012/07/18/air-conditioning-shinto-japan/</link>
		<comments>http://thisjapaneselife.org/2012/07/18/air-conditioning-shinto-japan/#comments</comments>
		<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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		<title>On Forgetting Your Umbrella in Japan</title>
		<link>http://thisjapaneselife.org/2012/07/04/umbrellas-in-japan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2012 02:45:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the weather changes, so does your life. In my university days, an exasperated Japanese teacher came in to greet my dripping-wet class. He asked why we were wet. “Oh that’s right. Because Americans never use a f&#8211;king umbrella.” It’s &#8230; <a href="http://thisjapaneselife.org/2012/07/04/umbrellas-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=1323&#038;subd=owwls&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Writing About Rain in Japan</title>
		<link>http://thisjapaneselife.org/2012/06/20/rainy-season-haiku/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2012 14:12:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s tsuyu, rainy season, a designation determined by a group of experts without regard to actual rainfall. It rained once on the day after they had declared the end of rainy season, and that rain was designated non-rainy season rain. &#8230; <a href="http://thisjapaneselife.org/2012/06/20/rainy-season-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=1310&#038;subd=owwls&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Going to a Gay Bar in Japan</title>
		<link>http://thisjapaneselife.org/2012/02/29/on-going-to-a-gay-bar-in-japan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Feb 2012 12:39:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The night starts by asking a cab driver to take you to a school. It’s 11 p.m. and you have no business going to a school at 11 p.m. on a Saturday night, so the driver heads toward the school &#8230; <a href="http://thisjapaneselife.org/2012/02/29/on-going-to-a-gay-bar-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=1220&#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>
		<link>http://thisjapaneselife.org/2011/10/26/japan-atm-kasa-obake/</link>
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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 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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