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	<title>Saw You On The Flipside &#187; Society and life</title>
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		<title>The art of cute-ing things up</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:18:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few years ago I wrote about Japan&#39;s seeming fascination with the &#39;cute&#39; or かわいい and how this seeps into every corner of society from brand and government mascots to products to serious things like health and safety regulations. Original post is here http://www.lo-la.co.uk/2008/05/01/japan-or-the-cult-of-the-cute/
 Then this video came up on twitter today courtesy of @andymalt

It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>日本 state of mind</title>
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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>
		<dc:creator>Laurent</dc:creator>
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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>
		<link>http://www.lo-la.co.uk/2009/10/08/dogs-and-demons-viewing-japan-without-the-rose-tinted-glasses/</link>
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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>What economic troubles? Oh look there&#8217;s a lifesize robot model!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 11:58:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurent</dc:creator>
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So I&#8217;ve been reading Alex Kerr&#8217;s &#8216;Dogs and Demons&#8217; quite voraciously &#8211; it&#8217;s an engrossing read. I&#8217;ve just finished a couple more chapters on the surreal (and rather depressing) situation Japan finds itself in when it comes to construction, such as the building of unnecessary monuments to detract from the country&#8217;s actual issues. And then [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dogs and Demons &#8211; taking a different look at Japan</title>
		<link>http://www.lo-la.co.uk/2009/09/26/dogs-and-demons-taking-a-different-look-at-japan/</link>
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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>
		<link>http://www.lo-la.co.uk/2009/09/23/japan-18-months-in-18-pictures-december-07/</link>
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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>The land where there is little you can&#8217;t &#8216;cute up&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.lo-la.co.uk/2009/09/21/the-land-where-there-is-little-you-cant-cute-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 09:24:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurent</dc:creator>
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Like say a video explaining how Google Map&#39;s street view works. かわいいnon? (via @EaonP)
  Posted via email   from Laurent&#8217;s pot of randomness  
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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>
		<comments>http://www.lo-la.co.uk/2009/02/16/japan-18-months-in-18-pictures-october-07/#comments</comments>
		<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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