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            <title>Memories of Japanese high school love | What Japan Thinks</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[This week&#8217;s Silly Sunday looks at love in Japanese high schools, in particular people&#8217;s personal memories from there, for both men and women.
Demographics
Between the 11th and 15th of July 2008 1,064 members of the goo Research online monitor...]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 21:53:29 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Slogans for crap English schools | TEFLtastic</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[1. &#8220;Officially the blondest teachers of any school in Japan/ China/ Taiwan etc&#8221;
2. &#8220;We&#8217;ve never changed because we are perfect&#8221;
3. &#8220;Come and see the new batch of teachers, fresh off the plane&#8221;
4. &#8220;The youth...]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 18:53:03 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Songs from the back of my hard drive | Happy Hills</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[I was cleaning out my computer yesterday and came across some songs I did on my old laptop when I first came to Fukuoka. It brought back some memories. I had come to Fukuoka with almost no money to start with and no job arranged, and was making ends meet...]]></description>
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            <title>Ikebana at Kyoto Stn: Red Nanakamata Leaves、Dark Blue Bellflower、Orange (Tsunao-Medoki?) | ...</title>
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            <title>connecting and re-connecting | Adventures In Japan</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[My grandfather, on my father's side, came to Hawaii from Okinawa during the Sugar Cane days (about 1908) and over the years we had lost touch with his family. My grandfather was originally from Haebaru, a town that was destroyed during the war. A lot of...]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 15:23:25 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Japan This Week: 7 September 2008 | Japan Visitor</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[今週の日本In Japan, a leadership vacuum.NY TimesTransparency in interrogations curbs police abuse: so what are they afraid of?MainichiSo far, it just isn't looking like Asia's century.Washington PostKyushu - the land of warriors h...]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 15:23:24 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Cold, wet and miserable | adekun</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The above could be a fair reflection of the weather for the second half of August. To be dispassionate, temperatures were in the mid twenties, there were no typhoons, and perhaps it is me being miserable.
I managed to get sunburnt in the September sun as...]]></description>
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            <title>Lotus Ride 2008 | Popcorn and Sushi</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[It's become a tradition for our family to ride our bikes through some of the nearby lotus fields in late-August, before all the stalks are pulled up or cut down, and the roots are harvested. Many of the plants are...]]></description>
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            <title>Bitter Lemon Elixir and Berry Almond Tea Cakes | La Fuji Mama</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[On my first visit to England years ago I stumbled across a drink that instantly grabbed at my taste buds and left me wanting more, Schweppes Bitter Lemon.   Mouth puckering lemon and bitter quinine work together to create a symphony of flavor that is...]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 04:53:39 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Beppu from a Hotel Room Window | Kyklops</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[By day...By night (oops!)...]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 03:55:52 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Japan’s busiest railway lines | What Japan Thinks</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[In yesterday&#8217;s post I pondered out loud about whether or not the line I commute on is the busiest one in the Osaka area or not, so I decided to look for some statistics. With surprisingly little effort, I found the data for last year, 2007, for...]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 21:21:01 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Oita's &quot;Monkey Mountain&quot; (3) | Kyklops</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Still more pics from Mt. Takasaki in Oita (with still a few more more to come):An overheard snatch of conversation between an elderly man and his grand-daughter:She: Grandpa, what are those monkeys doing.He: (After a long pause) Well... I guess they're...]]></description>
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            <title>Expecting in Japan | Puerto Ricans</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[People say a picture is worth 1,000 words and well now I believe it completely. As you can clearly see by this 3D sonogram I'm 5 moths pregnant. There I finally said it (in this case wrote it). Now it's completely out there and no one has to wonder why...]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 17:56:04 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Helsinki fireworks competition | TokyoNights</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[From in finland]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 16:22:06 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>happy birthday kansai airport | Englishman in Osaka</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[On Thursday, Osaka's Kansai International Airport celebrated its 14th birthday.Built on an artificial island, the airport features a stylish terminal with space-age design. Japan is tight for space at the best of times so what better idea than to build a...]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 13:52:34 +0100</pubDate>
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