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		<title>日本 state of mind</title>
		<link>http://www.lo-la.co.uk/2010/01/22/%e6%97%a5%e6%9c%ac-state-of-mind/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:18:27 +0000</pubDate>
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 Been thinking a lot about Japan in the last week, mainly because I&#39;m planning my return to Tokyo later this year &#8211; something I&#39;ve been working on for a couple of years, primarily by setting up the Original Cultures project (http://www.originalcultures.org).
 As happens, things to do with Japan have been cropping up all over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drunken Japanese salarymen &#8211; the backbones of blogging entertainment</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:09:45 +0000</pubDate>
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 This link (http://www.loneleeplanet.com/2010/01/publicly-sleeping-salarymen/) came up in my Facebook earlier today (hat tip to Dave Murray). It&#39;s a run down of 10 of the best drunken Japanese salarymen pictures available around the web.
 It made me think of how the internet has made it possible for what was a previously &#39;local&#39; phenomenon, recounted by returning/visiting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dogs and Demons &#8211; viewing Japan without the rose-tinted glasses</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 22:10:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurent</dc:creator>
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I finished reading Alex Kerr&#8217;s &#8216;Dogs and Demons&#8217; last night. Two weeks or so after it landed through my door, it&#8217;s the fastest I&#8217;ve read a book in a while, and so safe to say it was an engrossing read. The book was originally recommended to me by a friend who&#8217;d lived in Japan before [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dogs and Demons &#8211; taking a different look at Japan</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 13:36:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurent</dc:creator>
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During my time living in Tokyo one of things that fascinated me the most, and which I strangely miss, was the way space was &#8216;rearranged&#8217; in the city to accommodate an incredibly large population inside an amount of space smaller than other capitals with less inhabitants. In Tokyo space is sparse, cramped is an adjective [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan: 18 months in 18 pictures &#8211; December 07</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:21:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurent</dc:creator>
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Part 1 and explanation of the series here. Read entire series via tags, here.
December 07 continued the time of change that had started in previous months. I finished at my third school, Ebisu, where I worked on sundays, and moved to 3 days at the paper, while doing 2 days at the school for a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan: 18 months in 18 pictures &#8211; November 07</title>
		<link>http://www.lo-la.co.uk/2009/06/20/japan-18-months-in-18-pictures-november-07/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2009 11:43:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurent</dc:creator>
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Part 1 and explanation of the series here. Read entire series via tags, here.
I&#8217;ve been a bit late with these to say the least, consider this catching up time. November 2007 was a strange month, mainly because this is when I started to move away from teaching and into a &#8216;proper&#8217; job as Copy Editor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan: 18 months in 18 pictures &#8211; October 07</title>
		<link>http://www.lo-la.co.uk/2009/02/16/japan-18-months-in-18-pictures-october-07/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2009 19:14:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurent</dc:creator>
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Part 1 and explanation of the series here. Read entire series via tags, here.
One thing I came to realise about Japan towards the end of my first year there is just how strong the influences from America are on the country, both culturally and socially. The more you walk the streets and suburbs of Tokyo, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan: 18 months in 18 pictures &#8211; September 07</title>
		<link>http://www.lo-la.co.uk/2009/01/25/japan-18-months-in-18-pictures-september-07/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2009 16:48:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurent</dc:creator>
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Part 1 and explanation of the series here. Read entire series via tags, here.
September in Japan heralded the end of the summer heat and oppression and a return to &#8216;normality&#8217; with work and the daily grind following the extended Obon holidays. It&#8217;s also around September time that I started to really consider the possibility of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan: 18 months in 18 pictures &#8211; August 07</title>
		<link>http://www.lo-la.co.uk/2009/01/12/japan-18-months-in-18-pictures-august-07/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2009 23:49:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurent</dc:creator>
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Part 1 and explanation of the series here. Read entire series via tags, here. 
August in Japan continued to be hot, with the summer heat peaking sometime around the beginning of the month about the same time I was starting to get really tired of air-con salvation but still couldn&#8217;t get enough of green tea [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Old to the new and something about anime stories</title>
		<link>http://www.lo-la.co.uk/2009/01/08/old-to-the-new-and-something-about-anime-stories/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:27:36 +0000</pubDate>
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Coming out of the festive period this year feels a bit like coming out of a bunker and returning to cold, harsh reality. For the first time in ages I&#8217;ve actually seriously unplugged for a good 10 days, and as a result I&#8217;m finding it really hard to get back into things, not helped by [...]]]></description>
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