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		<title>Hashima</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2011 23:07:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reading about a deserted island in Japan ahead of our trip there, pretty amazing stuff. This little island (Hashima) was once the most densely populated area in the world: it was about 400m by 140m, and at its peak housed 5,259 people &#8211; coal miners and their families. When the coal mine was closed in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japanese Design &#8211; Bunk Beds</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 18:59:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Found this while looking up cabin types on Japanese ferries for an upcoming trip. Bunk beds were always a bit crap, but imagine you&#8217;re on a ferry in a turbulent sea, climbing up the shaky ladder to the top bunk bed, waking your neighbours as the ladder wobbles around. Not cool. Japan says no to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>XP for Getting Things Done</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jul 2010 10:41:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This idea has occurred to me a bunch of times &#8211; looks like someone has finally gone and done it, and in some style. When you play a game like World of Warcraft, or even Call of Duty, you do some pretty boring things to get Experience points (XP) or to get new perks or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japanese (Kotoeri) input method disappears on Mac OS X</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2009 13:39:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Cahill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning I found I could no longer switch to the Japanese keyboard layout on my mac &#8211; only the US layout was listed. So I went to System Preferences > International > Input menu and looked for the Japanese Input Method (called Kotoeri on the mac). There was no sign of it; here&#8217;s how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sayonara</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 01:52:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Cahill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love this photo &#8211; it&#8217;s exactly how I will remember this year &#8211; smiley, fun, good-natured students, and friendly, fun and helpful teachers (see the vice-principal on right). I have avoided mentioning the school&#8217;s name on this blog so far, but the whole year has been such an overwhelmingly positive experience that I want [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kosuge Mura Festival</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 13:55:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Cahill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A taiko player raises his drumstick to the sky as the bonfire flames lick higher. This is my favourite photograph from this weekend&#8217;s Kosuge Mura festival. Like all of the other photos in this post, it was taken by a fellow JET and photography graduate, the talented Kelly Bryan. I was lucky enough to play [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Broken purikura promises</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 11:51:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Cahill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Damn you, purikura. Every time I fall for the wonderful promises on your curtain booths, and every time my hopes are dashed. What promises? Let&#8217;s just take a sample. So the DoLLs in black were going to invite me to the monogram dream, huh? Do you know how many nights I sat by the phone, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s in a name?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 08:15:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Cahill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here in Japan, I&#8217;m often reminded of Butch in Pulp Fiction talking about how American names don&#8217;t mean anything. Japanese names are made up of Chinese characters, each of which has a meaning. I imagine that it must be pretty tough picking names as a Japanese parent &#8211; they don&#8217;t just need to sound good, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hello, World!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 08:15:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Cahill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the craic, I sometimes call my students by the English translation of their names. For example, I had a student called Minami (南) in the last school year, and she got a kick out of being called South. This year, a new student called Sekai (世界) arrived, which means I can mentally high-five myself [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sumo</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 15:09:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Cahill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Jacques Chirac may be a fan, but I wasn&#8217;t going to sumo for the craic. My motivations were more cultural &#8211; I viewed it as kind of a &#8220;museum visit&#8221;. After all, how much fun could it possibly be to watch two fat guys push each other around? A hell of a lot, it turns [...]]]></description>
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