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		<title>On Doing Mass Radio Calisthenics in Japan</title>
		<link>http://thisjapaneselife.org/2013/05/15/radio-taiso-japan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 14:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everyone in Japan knows how to do Radio Taiso. It&#8217;s performed as the first task of the morning in a number of corporate and government offices before the official start of early morning tasks. The Post Office has done it &#8230; <a href="http://thisjapaneselife.org/2013/05/15/radio-taiso-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=1622&#038;subd=owwls&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Eating Foreign Sushi in Japan</title>
		<link>http://thisjapaneselife.org/2013/03/20/japan-sushi-globalization/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 13:15:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I turned on the TV in a Thai hostel last year, and compared international news broadcasts. Fox and MSNBC were covering the shootings in Colorado; Al Jazeera was reporting on what nations could buy with the tax revenue they lost &#8230; <a href="http://thisjapaneselife.org/2013/03/20/japan-sushi-globalization/">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=1549&#038;subd=owwls&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Smoking Cigarettes in Japan</title>
		<link>http://thisjapaneselife.org/2013/02/27/on-smoking-cigarettes-in-japan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2013 12:55:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rene Magritte&#8217;s “Treachery of Images” shows us a picture of a pipe, then denies that a picture of a pipe is a pipe at all. Of course, we get it now: It&#8217;s a picture of a pipe. In Japan, I &#8230; <a href="http://thisjapaneselife.org/2013/02/27/on-smoking-cigarettes-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=1515&#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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		<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 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>
		<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 Sneezing in Japan</title>
		<link>http://thisjapaneselife.org/2012/02/15/sneezing-in-japan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 12:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Japan, no one can hear you sneeze. OK, they can hear you, they just don&#8217;t erupt into spontaneous prayer. I&#8217;d ask, “What do you say in Japanese when people sneeze?” Occasionally I&#8217;d hear “odaiji ni” as an option. So &#8230; <a href="http://thisjapaneselife.org/2012/02/15/sneezing-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=1182&#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>The Winter Haiku Forecast</title>
		<link>http://thisjapaneselife.org/2012/01/11/the-winter-haiku-forecast/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 12:30:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tradition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[haiku]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Writing shit about new snow for the rich is not art.” - Kobayashi Issa (trans. Robert Hass) We’re entering the official “late winter” season in the Japanese Poet’s Meteorological Service forecasts, according to the saijiki, the book that regulates the topics of &#8230; <a href="http://thisjapaneselife.org/2012/01/11/the-winter-haiku-forecast/">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=1131&#038;subd=owwls&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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