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		<title>On Letting Go of a Tree Branch in Japan</title>
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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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		<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 Like Totally Living in the Now in Japan, You Know?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 14:45:05 +0000</pubDate>
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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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