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	<title>Saw You On The Flipside &#187; Japan</title>
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		<title>Things I never expected to do on a holiday</title>
		<link>http://www.lo-la.co.uk/2011/04/18/things-i-never-expected-to-do-on-a-holiday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 07:28:16 +0000</pubDate>
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Nearly 6 weeks ago I landed back in Tokyo after 3 years away from Japan. I came back for an extended work holiday of sorts. Within less then 24 hours the country suffered its greatest natural disaster in the last hundred years and its biggest crisis since World War II. It was immediately clear [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Notes from a contaminated island &#8211; 12/04/11</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 12:11:29 +0000</pubDate>
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There&#8217;s something about London for me that makes it a deeply appealing place to live in while at the same time fuels a deep hatred of it. It&#8217;s a love/hate relationship, one that&#8217;s lasted 13 years so far. I&#8217;ve discussed it at length with my flatmate in the last year, partly because it&#8217;s something [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sonar Tokyo 2011 day 2 &#8211; Revenge of the synths</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2011 04:49:25 +0000</pubDate>
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This is a two-part review of Sonar Tokyo 2011 &#8211; part 1 is here. Thanks to Davide at RBMA and Sonar for their help over the weekend.
As I write this review on a shinkansen heading to Shikoku it&#8217;s been nearly 48 hours since Sonar Tokyo ended and I don&#8217;t think my brain, or body, has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sonar Tokyo 2011 day 1 &#8211; Saiyan saves the day</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 09:24:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurent</dc:creator>
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This is a two-part review of Sonar Tokyo 2011. Part 2 is here. Thanks to Davide at RBMA and Sonar for their help over the weekend.
Last night a Saiyan came to Tokyo and brought salvation to a ravaged island through music. He was flanked by a kid in a spacesuit playing keys and a mystic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Notes from a contaminated island – 29/03/11</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 14:35:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurent</dc:creator>
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&#8220;Since the earthquake, there haven&#8217;t been any foreigners&#8221; explains the owner of a small restaurant slash souvenir shop situated right outside a reconstructed traditional village on the shores of Lake Sai, in the shadows of Mt. Fuji. &#8220;It&#8217;s been really quiet, you&#8217;ve been good customers today&#8221;. All we did was spend 1,000 yen on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Notes from a contaminated island &#8211; 25/03/11</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 07:09:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurent</dc:creator>
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Back on the shinkansen. This time a longer stretch from Okayama to Tokyo. Stopped at Kyoto station. Turned my head around to see an old woman on the platform look at me and smile. 
I left Tokyo on monday morning after what has been one of the most exciting and exhausting ten days of my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Notes from a contaminated island &#8211; 21/03/11</title>
		<link>http://www.lo-la.co.uk/2011/03/21/notes-from-a-contaminated-island-210311/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 03:02:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurent</dc:creator>
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Monday 11am. I&#8217;ve been back in Japan for about 10 days. On the shinkansen to Kyoto, for the first time in three years &#8211; more or less to the day when I took my dad and little brother there in 2008. Now depending on where you live, and the degree of information you willingly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nihon Kizuna compilation &#8211; Buy music, help Japan</title>
		<link>http://www.lo-la.co.uk/2011/03/19/nihon-kizuna-compilation-buy-music-help-japan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 19:01:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurent</dc:creator>
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So I may have mentioned that in the past five days, my host (XLII) and some friends (Broken Haze and Audace) and I have been working to put together a compilation of music from worldwide artists to raise money for the Japan Red Cross and the relief effort to help those in northern Japan.
The compilation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tokyo. One week after&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.lo-la.co.uk/2011/03/18/tokyo-one-week-after/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 07:25:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurent</dc:creator>
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Roughly one week and 3 hours ago Japan was hit by an earthquake of 9.0 magnitude (Richter scale) followed by a tsunami which wrecked northern coastal areas and prefectures. Last I checked nearly half a million people were displaced, thousands dead and tens of thousands still missing. 
I landed the day before, having waited [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An open letter to the Sun newspaper re. Tokyo</title>
		<link>http://www.lo-la.co.uk/2011/03/17/an-open-letter-to-the-sun-newspaper-re-tokyo/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lo-la.co.uk/2011/03/17/an-open-letter-to-the-sun-newspaper-re-tokyo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 11:59:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurent</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Satan&#8217;s cock suckers Sun Newspaper, 
Today I came across a link online to a story you ran on your site (maybe even your paper) about some woman in Tokyo left to starve in a ghost town. 
I won&#8217;t even bother to link to it, I know how the SEO game works and you&#8217;re not [...]]]></description>
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