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		<title>My Memoirs of Japan</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jun 2010 14:52:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I decided to log in to Japan Q&#38;A today after (too) many months. It&#8217;s been so long that I couldn&#8217;t even remember some of my posts. So, as you can imagine, I was surprised to see all the inspiring comments readers have posted in my absence. I was truly touched, thank you. For almost one [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=japanqna.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2060906&amp;post=167&amp;subd=japanqna&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Good Japanese Daughters</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:23:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several guys I work with have married their wives in their home countries but have come to Nippon to live indefinitely. They all give the same reason for leaving their jobs and starting a new adventure here in Nippon: their wives have aging parents and they want to help out with the family business or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=japanqna.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2060906&amp;post=96&amp;subd=japanqna&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Earth Lover by Default</title>
		<link>http://japanqna.wordpress.com/2008/07/10/earth-lover-by-default/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 17:59:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The last time I checked, I was very green. By green, I mean earth-friendly; mostly because of the rules and stuff I have to follow because I live in Japan. My carbon footprint, according to this calculator, is small. My trips home and occasional travels are the only factors that show a significant increase in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=japanqna.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2060906&amp;post=104&amp;subd=japanqna&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tanabata: The Japanese Star Festival</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 11:51:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few years back, I went on a trip to Sendai for the Tanabata Festival. At that time, I was only interested because of the colorful decorations that I heard were so famous. I badgered a Japanese friend to accompany me, and she was so nice she&#8217;d even explained everything I thought there was to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=japanqna.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2060906&amp;post=121&amp;subd=japanqna&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Comeback</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 07:10:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What I&#8217;d planned originally as a short leave of absence from blogging turned into a blogging sabbatical. It feels like I haven&#8217;t blogged in years, but in reality it has only been nine weeks. I&#8217;ve had to contend with new job responsibilities, mostly involving a new job site, a change of address and a relatively [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=japanqna.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2060906&amp;post=118&amp;subd=japanqna&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Golden Week</title>
		<link>http://japanqna.wordpress.com/2008/04/29/golden-week/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The next week is going to be quite busy (as the past two have been&#8230;), so I&#8217;m afraid my non-writing streak will continue for a while longer. I apologize, but it is the Golden Week and I hope at the end of it I will be equipped with stories to share and pictures to show. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=japanqna.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2060906&amp;post=114&amp;subd=japanqna&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m Turning Japanese</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:17:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few months ago, I blogged about still being a Gaijin in Japan, in this post: Take the Gaijin Test. Recently, I have come to realize I&#8217;ve been doing a lot of things I swore I&#8217;d never do, and which I poked fun at in the first few months/years I&#8217;d been in Japan. Embarrassing to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=japanqna.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2060906&amp;post=109&amp;subd=japanqna&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sakura Shots &#8211; Miharu&#8217;s Takizakura</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:40:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just went to see the grandmommy of shidare-zakuras&#8230; it was literally the grandmother of a 150-year-old weeping cherry blossom tree in Fukushima and the parent of another several hundred-year-old cherry tree in the same area. The Takizakura of Miharu is about 1000 years old. According to our tour guide, the hollow trunk of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=japanqna.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2060906&amp;post=107&amp;subd=japanqna&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>After the Hanami Season&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 17:29:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Hanami Season is not over yet! For those die-hard cherry blossom fans like me, Tohoku is the place to visit in the coming weeks. I&#8217;ve been longingly looking at a poster on my station&#8217;s wall featuring the places in the Tohoku and Yamanashi-Nagano area that will be in bloom from the middle of April [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=japanqna.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2060906&amp;post=103&amp;subd=japanqna&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Yakitori</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:08:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yakitori(焼き鳥), which is literally grilled bird, is Japanese chicken barbecue on skewers. Over the last few weekends, I&#8217;ve been subsisting on a diet of Yakitori and Ramune. Festival stalls often sell Yakitori and other Kushiyaki (串焼き, skewered food). Every time I think of Yakitori, though, I remember this one time when I went to a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=japanqna.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2060906&amp;post=100&amp;subd=japanqna&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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