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		<title>Baruto!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 18:04:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mikele</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[sumo]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Our friend Baruto has won the Honbasho in Tokyo! That makes Baruto enter the club of very few the non-japanese Sumo champions. He became the ninth foreign-born wrestler and second from Europe after Bulgarian Kotooshu to win a championship. &#8220;I don&#8217;t have that much to say but I am excited,&#8221; said Baruto, who made his [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thejapanexperience.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12158565&amp;post=229&amp;subd=thejapanexperience&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Italian Consul General in Osaka is a fascist beater</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 10:54:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mikele</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Weird and funny]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[italy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[osaka]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is almost unbelievable. Or maybe not, if you stop and think for minute about the never-ending sequel of embarrassing s**t the italian government has supported and/or promoted lately. Mario Vattani is a well known extreme right-winger who has performed with his rock band at events supporting fascist causes. He&#8217;s now representing Italy in Osaka, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thejapanexperience.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12158565&amp;post=226&amp;subd=thejapanexperience&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Free tickets to Japan from the Japanese government</title>
		<link>http://thejapanexperience.wordpress.com/2011/10/12/free-tickets-to-japan-from-the-japanese-government/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 08:39:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mikele</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flight]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Announced today &#8211; the Japanese ministry of tourism is planning to invite 10,000 foreigners to Japan &#8211; and pay for your travel. Applications will be done through the internets and folks will be invited during 2012. Applicants need to submit their travel plans for when they are in Japan and if the government thinks that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thejapanexperience.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12158565&amp;post=224&amp;subd=thejapanexperience&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m a ramen-boy</title>
		<link>http://thejapanexperience.wordpress.com/2011/09/29/im-a-ramen-boy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 16:20:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mikele</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[cooking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ramen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[recipy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I just love ramen, it reminds me of &#8216;la minestrina della nonna&#8217; which is a key italian culinary concept: the exquisite soup only your grandma can make, after an entire life devoted to perfecting her skills. And finally, now I can also make it. Well, let&#8217;s say I can prepare a bare bones version of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thejapanexperience.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12158565&amp;post=222&amp;subd=thejapanexperience&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Japanese Love Hotels: a cultural history</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Aug 2011 12:59:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mikele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just started reading this book by Sarah Chaplin on the &#8216;love&#8217; hotels in Japan, an aspect of contemporary Japanese culture often downplayed and underestimated by western tourists (&#8220;they&#8217;re just modern and fancy brothels&#8221; &#8211; a classic reaction I don&#8217;t deny having had myself). Love hotels are instead a fantastically rich anthropological phenomenon, where the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thejapanexperience.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12158565&amp;post=214&amp;subd=thejapanexperience&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Japan pensioners volunteer to tackle nuclear crisis</title>
		<link>http://thejapanexperience.wordpress.com/2011/06/01/japan-pensioners-volunteer-to-tackle-nuclear-crisis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 13:04:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mikele</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fukushima]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A group of more than 200 Japanese pensioners are volunteering to tackle the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima power station.The Skilled Veterans Corps, as they call themselves, is made up of retired engineers and other professionals, all over the age of 60. They say they should be facing the dangers of radiation, not the young. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thejapanexperience.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12158565&amp;post=220&amp;subd=thejapanexperience&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We Japanese are not philosophers</title>
		<link>http://thejapanexperience.wordpress.com/2010/11/07/the-japanese-philosopher/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Nov 2010 13:40:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mikele</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[japanese concepts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[philosophy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[zen]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A quite poignant quote from May&#8217;s book &#8220;Atomic Sushi&#8221; (that I talked about in a previous post). The author is talking to his japanese host about the reasons for being a philosopher in modern Japan (p.148-149): &#8220;We Japanese are not philosophers,&#8221; he conceded proudly. &#8220;We have our philosophy, of course; but we prefer not to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thejapanexperience.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12158565&amp;post=204&amp;subd=thejapanexperience&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Scandal threatens Japan&#8217;s sumo wrestling</title>
		<link>http://thejapanexperience.wordpress.com/2010/08/25/scandal-threatens-japans-sumo-wrestling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 10:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mikele</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[diary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gambling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sport]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sumo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[yakuza]]></category>

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		<title>The 21st-century cycle shed</title>
		<link>http://thejapanexperience.wordpress.com/2010/08/04/the-21st-century-cycle-shed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 13:35:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mikele</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[bike]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shed]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve seen these in Japan a few times, now finally I also get to see a video (above) that explains quite well the way they work.. From the Guardian, nov 2009: Illegal parking of bicycles in Japanese cities is a major problem. But one company has come up with an ingenious and elegant solution A [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thejapanexperience.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12158565&amp;post=197&amp;subd=thejapanexperience&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Book: Atomic Sushi</title>
		<link>http://thejapanexperience.wordpress.com/2010/06/27/book-atomic-sushi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jun 2010 18:31:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mikele</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[japanese concepts]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a book [see it on Amazon] I&#8217;d advice people to read before going to Japan (or after they&#8217;ve been there, like I did). Funny but at the same time very pungent and insightful, in the way it depicts many typical aspects of the Japanese society. Simon May is (among other things) a philosopher.. that&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thejapanexperience.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12158565&amp;post=190&amp;subd=thejapanexperience&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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