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	<title>Saw You On The Flipside &#187; Japan</title>
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	<description>Laurent Fintoni's online portfolio and blog... music, travels, life</description>
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		<title>Instant Ramen mini reviews 3 &#8211; Itsuki Abegg Ramen</title>
		<link>http://www.lo-la.co.uk/2010/03/17/instant-ramen-mini-reviews-3-itsuki-abegg-ramen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:27:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurent</dc:creator>
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I&#39;m resurrecting the instant ramen mini review series, in many parts thanks to my lovely friend Liza who sent me a copy of the totally amazing Gakken Mook for Instant Ramen (http://www.bk1.jp/product/03158305). 50+ pages of ideas on how to make instant ramen into proper dishes &#8211; some of the recipes are off the hook.
 Tonight&#39;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The art of cute-ing things up</title>
		<link>http://www.lo-la.co.uk/2010/02/20/the-art-of-cute-ing-things-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:18:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurent</dc:creator>
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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>
		<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>
		<dc:creator>Laurent</dc:creator>
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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>
		<link>http://www.lo-la.co.uk/2010/01/11/drunken-japanese-salarymen-the-backbones-of-blogging-entertainment/</link>
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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>Instant Ramen mini reviews 2 &#8211; Nissin Miso Ramen</title>
		<link>http://www.lo-la.co.uk/2009/09/30/instant-ramen-mini-reviews-2-nissin-miso-ramen/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lo-la.co.uk/2009/09/30/instant-ramen-mini-reviews-2-nissin-miso-ramen/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:14:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurent</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Up next in the instant mini reviews is Nissin, arguably the biggest name in the dried noodles game (they were the first to introduce instant ramen noodles to Japan). Unfortunately my kanji ability doesn&#8217;t quite extend to being able to read the actual type of instant miso ramen I got, but it seems to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Instant ramen mini reviews 1 &#8211; Itsuki Kumamoto Mokkosu Ramen</title>
		<link>http://www.lo-la.co.uk/2009/09/28/instant-ramen-mini-reviews-1-itsuki-kumamoto-mokkosu-ramen/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lo-la.co.uk/2009/09/28/instant-ramen-mini-reviews-1-itsuki-kumamoto-mokkosu-ramen/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:36:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurent</dc:creator>
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I&#8217;ve decided to bite the bullet recently and buy a bunch of different instant ramen packs from my regular Japanese supermarket. Considering I only get down to making ramen every 3 or so months (what with the amount of time it takes and the fact I need about 10 people to eat it all lest [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://www.lo-la.co.uk/2009/09/26/dogs-and-demons-taking-a-different-look-at-japan/#comments</comments>
		<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>
		<comments>http://www.lo-la.co.uk/2009/09/23/japan-18-months-in-18-pictures-december-07/#comments</comments>
		<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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