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	<title>Saw You On The Flipside &#187; Society and life</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>
		<dc:creator>Laurent</dc:creator>
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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>
		<dc:creator>Laurent</dc:creator>
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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>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>
		<link>http://www.lo-la.co.uk/2011/03/25/notes-from-a-contaminated-island-250311/</link>
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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>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>Of Japan, its people, nuclear reactors and natural disasters</title>
		<link>http://www.lo-la.co.uk/2011/03/14/of-japan-its-people-nuclear-reactors-and-natural-disasters/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lo-la.co.uk/2011/03/14/of-japan-its-people-nuclear-reactors-and-natural-disasters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 10:14:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurent</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lo-la.co.uk/?p=21659</guid>
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First please take the time today to read the following link:
http://bravenewclimate.com/2011/03/13/fukushima-simple-explanation/
It&#8217;s VERY long. PLEASE take the time to read it some point when you can. This was written by someone who knows what they are talking about and most importantly who explains it in a way we can all understand. Even if you don&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons from a natural disaster</title>
		<link>http://www.lo-la.co.uk/2011/03/12/lessons-from-a-natural-disaster/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Mar 2011 12:39:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurent</dc:creator>
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1. 24h news should be consumed in moderation, and with a filter enabled. After more than a day of having NHK on and off in the background I feel that the only times I&#8217;ve had clarity have been when the TV (or internet news) was off. On top of that I was being fed news [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ただいま！Mind the earthquake&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.lo-la.co.uk/2011/03/11/%e3%81%9f%e3%81%a0%e3%81%84%e3%81%be%ef%bc%81mind-the-earthquake/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 13:45:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurent</dc:creator>
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It&#8217;s been an interesting 24 hours since I landed back in Japan&#8230; jetlag, amazing food, old friends and for the last ten or so hours the most surreal situation after the biggest earthquake in 140 years hit the coast off the north of the country. 
Ironically I was actually having ramen with friends when it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2010 &#8211; One last spin</title>
		<link>http://www.lo-la.co.uk/2011/01/05/2010-one-last-spin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2011 22:33:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurent</dc:creator>
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Maybe it&#8217;s a testament to how busy I&#8217;ve been in 2010 that I didn&#8217;t even have time, or energy, to write this end of year round up before the year ended. Or maybe it&#8217;s because being so busy the one thing I learnt this year is to stop and relax when I can take no [...]]]></description>
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