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		<title>On Autumn in Japan</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here, Autumn starts in August, rather than the September Equinox. It’s September now, but the temperatures still hover in the 80s, thunderstorms still threaten my daily sushi pickup, and cicadas still squawk through the trees like tortured squirrels. What do &#8230; <a href="http://thisjapaneselife.org/2012/09/12/autumn-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=1399&#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 Letting Go of a Tree Branch in Japan</title>
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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>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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		<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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		<title>On Seasons, or: On Poets Taking Over the Japanese Meteorological Service</title>
		<link>http://thisjapaneselife.org/2011/10/19/on-seasons-in-japan/</link>
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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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