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		<title>Abusive Japanese Police in Asakusa Tokyo</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 02:55:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What I saw today is one of the most unbelievable and atrocious things I have ever seen in my life. It disgusted me to the core, and showed me a side of Japan even darker than I had seen up until now. It showed me just how far the Abusive Japanese police will go to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guessing The News In Japan</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Dec 2012 05:18:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After enough time reading the news in Japan, you start to recognize a bit of a pattern. Perhaps the words &#8220;a bit&#8221; serve as somewhat of an understatement. More accurately, it gets to a point where you can semi-accurately guess the news in Japan in any given week. A close friend told me that they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another Japanese Police Fail</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2012 05:39:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Any quick search on a news page will show you that the Japanese police are not the most upstanding citizens. And Kazuo Hayashi, a 58-year-old police chief in Gunma has given us all one more article to read on this topic. I&#8217;ll start by making it clear that I&#8217;m not saying that police in other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japanese Upskirt Chikan &#8211; Sexual Harassment on Japanese Trains</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2012 06:19:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the last week, there have been 3 major chikan cases to hit the news related to upskirt photos and upskirt videos here in Japan. The Ex-IBM Japan president, an Osaka assistant-judge, and a Tokyo Metro employee. In answer to your question: Yes. Japanese men are perverts. And while I would have loved to include [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Make-up and Lies</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2012 05:39:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;It is amazing what make up can hide. If you want to know what she really looks like, take her swimming. Japanese girls without make-up are a totally different ball game man.&#8221; Words of wisdom from a Japanese friend many years ago as I showed him a picture of a beautiful Japanese girl I had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Think Some Japanese People Want To Speak English</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Aug 2012 02:56:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why to Japanese people answer me in English when I speak to them in Japanese? A question that many foreign Japanese-speakers find themselves asking at one point or another. I had been speaking Japanese outside of Japan for about a year when I first set foot in Tokyo. I landed in the country excited to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Being Stared at by Japanese People</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2012 01:18:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I&#8217;m sick and tired of being stared at by Japanese people all day, every day, everywhere I go.&#8220;, said the Australian man in his late 20&#8242;s sitting 2 tables away. To which his friend replied, &#8220;Then go back to Australia.&#8221; This is Japan. And if you are foreign, chances are that people are going to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bullying (Ijime) in Japan</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2012 06:38:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;We&#8217;re glad he killed himself. We wanted him dead&#8221; These were the words of the classmates who bullied a 13-year old boy to the point of suicide. Disgust. That is all I am left with as I turn off the TV and try to stop myself from booking a one-way ticket out of Japan. And [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making The Best Of It &#8211; J&#8217;s Story &#8211; (The Hottest Brand in Japan Pt. II)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2012 13:53:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[J made his living off of Japanese women. And quite a living it was. In case the title didn&#8217;t tip you off, this piece is an addition to The Hottest Brand In Japan. If you haven&#8217;t read it, I would suggest starting there~ The day I met my old roommate J for the first time, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Hottest Brand in Japan</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2012 06:10:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some people would call Japan and it&#8217;s people pretentious. Take a walk through the streets of Tokyo&#8217;s Ginza district on any Sunday of the month, and you will have a fair idea of why they might think this way. And while there is much to be said on this statement alone, I will leave that [...]]]></description>
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