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		<title>&#8220;Do you remember me?&#8221;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Japanese language can be very oblique. There are checks and balances throughout every conversation, subtly feeling out the social pecking order of the participants, how much can be asked of someone, a constant subtle search for common ground. Yes, I know, every language has that to some extent, but I’ve had conversations where I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nagaijin.wordpress.com&blog=350287&post=834&subd=nagaijin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:38:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the past several years, I have joined some friends to join in the spirit (and share in the local hospitality) of this festival, held the third weekend of every September in Kishiwada, in the south part of Osaka Prefecture. I took fewer photos than usual (the imbibing of some friends&#8217; hospitality went on until [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nagaijin.wordpress.com&blog=350287&post=825&subd=nagaijin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Get out the Vote – Epilogue</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:46:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The DPJ won a landslide, the LDP has imploded, and the Komeito were wiped out in Osaka. That included Mr Tabata, the MP my neighbour was exhorting me to vote for. He lost to a Mr Nakajima. Blood did not flow in the streets, but the neighbour was noticeably distant last evening when I met [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nagaijin.wordpress.com&blog=350287&post=816&subd=nagaijin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Get out the vote (any vote)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:51:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There will be a Parliamentary election in Japan this Sunday, and the big news is that the LDP (Liberal Democratic Party,自民党, Jimintou ), the governing party for 54 years (minus 9 months in the 90s) is – to put it delicately – going out on its ass. Now the DPJ (Democratic Party of Japan,民主党 Minshutou), [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nagaijin.wordpress.com&blog=350287&post=799&subd=nagaijin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Renovated Cracker Boxes – Before/After</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:37:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, I’ve got myself hooked on a popular home renovation programme which is on every Sunday night at eight on Asahi TV. Called Before/After , it’s a Japanese variation on all those fix-it shows that have been on for years in English-speaking countries (and probably others, but how would I know?). I learn things from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nagaijin.wordpress.com&blog=350287&post=748&subd=nagaijin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Louvre Show in Osaka: &#8220;Scary…scary…&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:48:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Went to the Louvre exhibition at the Osaka National Museum of Art in Higobashi today. It explores the theme of childhood, motherhood and families in art. An interesting (and perplexing) mish-mash of stuff from the Louvre (much of it from the storage cellars, I think), it would have been better as a two-part show {note: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nagaijin.wordpress.com&blog=350287&post=772&subd=nagaijin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hating Natto – a Dying Osaka Tradition</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 06:07:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s so much about Japanese food that I love, but natto (納豆, fermented soybeans) is a culinary minefield. I can understand its health benefits and could probably even get used to the taste of the stuff, but (and this is no doubt a personal failing on my part) I can’t get past the fact that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nagaijin.wordpress.com&blog=350287&post=754&subd=nagaijin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Osaka Largesse Postscript: Writ in Water</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The day after speaking to the cheerful old man on the train who just had to know how much I weighed (in an admiring way, because he liked sumo), I went to my gym and, since I seem to have hurt a tendon in my shoulder (and can&#8217;t swim very well anyway), I opted to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nagaijin.wordpress.com&blog=350287&post=732&subd=nagaijin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Osaka Largesse</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 12:34:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the subway this morning en route for Umeda, a seat opened up for me at Tennoji, a great rarity. I sat, settled in, and then I caught sight of a man well into his 70s (at least), stooped, thin, tallish (for a Japanese man his age), in a well-kept old suit and horn-rimmed glasses, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nagaijin.wordpress.com&blog=350287&post=723&subd=nagaijin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hanami (花見) 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:46:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cherry blossoms bloom all over Japan from late March to mid-April. They are the stuff of cliché here, but I must admit that they really are beautiful and the custom of  Blossom Viewing (Hanami, 花見), that is, sitting and picnicking and drinking (or not) under the trees with your friends is very enjoyable. Enjoyable, that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nagaijin.wordpress.com&blog=350287&post=718&subd=nagaijin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Visa Renewal, 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 15:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sumiyoshi-ku (ku means city ward) is at the bottom of Osaka City, geographically. It borders the Yamato River, which has the dubious distinction of being both the most historical and the filthiest river in Western Japan. On the other concrete-covered bank is Sakai City, famous for knives and swords (in some circles). Nagai, the neighbourhood [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nagaijin.wordpress.com&blog=350287&post=700&subd=nagaijin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Daumier at the Itami City Museum</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 05:01:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This being my day off, I got up late, but eventually hopped on a few trains (I&#8217;m becoming very good at this) and wound up in Itami City, in neighbouring Hyogo. It&#8217;s a fairly nondescript bedroom community (in fairness, though, parts of it were severely damaged in the 1995 earthquake), but it does have a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nagaijin.wordpress.com&blog=350287&post=525&subd=nagaijin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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