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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 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 Always Having an Empty Train Seat Beside You in Japan</title>
		<link>http://thisjapaneselife.org/2012/05/23/japan-microaggressions-racism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 02:56:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On a recent trip to the near-abandoned coal mining town of Tagawa, I took the wrong train three times, taking me into the true inaka &#8211; Japan’s rural backwater. The sight of a foreigner in these parts is rarer than &#8230; <a href="http://thisjapaneselife.org/2012/05/23/japan-microaggressions-racism/">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=1270&#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 Going to a Gay Bar in Japan</title>
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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 Running in Japan</title>
		<link>http://thisjapaneselife.org/2012/02/01/on-running-in-japan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:30:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the listener, who listens in the snow, And, nothing himself, beholds Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is. - Wallace Stevens, “The Snowman” Japan makes me anxious. Cool It Down I’ve been independent my entire life, &#8230; <a href="http://thisjapaneselife.org/2012/02/01/on-running-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=1156&#038;subd=owwls&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Seasons, or: On Poets Taking Over the Japanese Meteorological Service</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 10:45:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.&#8221; - The Great Gatsby There’s a central body in Japan that declares the coming and going of rain. That means that there is a weather bureaucracy, and someone stamps &#8230; <a href="http://thisjapaneselife.org/2011/10/19/on-seasons-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=936&#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>
		<link>http://thisjapaneselife.org/2011/10/05/lenins-feet/</link>
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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 Like Totally Living in the Now in Japan, You Know?</title>
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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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