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	<description>Expatriate Living in Numazu, Japan Talks Japanese Buddhism and Life in Japan</description>
	<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2008 12:47:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Kenketsu-chan</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2008 12:47:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JER</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[While Japan is notorious for its use of sometimes cute, sometimes strange mascots for everything from pachinko parlors to entire cities, the detail of this little character that I found in one of my classrooms amazed me:

Meet Kenketsu-chan. Kenketsu means &#8220;blood drive&#8221; and chan is an affectionate honorific that would usually be used on a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Confucius and Socrates - Lessons in Cultural Interaction</title>
		<link>http://www.searchforamethod.com/2008/06/20/confucius-and-socrates-lessons-in-cultural-interaction/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 07:25:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the past two weeks, we have been a little stressed out by some conflict we&#8217;ve been having with our boss. To be honest, the situation has been going on since we arrived here, but we finally decided that we were going to confront it about two weeks ago and we finally did on Monday. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What do gaijin eat?</title>
		<link>http://www.searchforamethod.com/2008/06/07/what-do-gaijin-eat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jun 2008 11:41:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Food]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Two of the most common questions we were asked by our students in our first few weeks of classes was &#8220;Can you eat Japanese food?&#8221; and &#8220;What do you eat in Japan?&#8221; The first is apparently due to the fact that most of our students think that we have absolutely no experience with Japanese culture [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Buyo!?!?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 07:07:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t written in a while and there are a number of things I&#8217;ve been intending on writing about, but at the moment all I can think about is my incredibly swollen arm. Why is my arm swollen? This weekend, we went to Tokyo (that story later), and stayed in a cheap youth hostel. By [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Numazu - Our Home Sweet Home</title>
		<link>http://www.searchforamethod.com/2008/05/22/numazu-our-home-sweet-home/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 06:02:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mt. Fuji]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Well, it only seems appropriate to finally talk about our home in Japan:

Numazu is a small city of approximately 200,000 people which is surrounded by several cities of about 100,000 - Fuji, Mishima, Gotemba and Susono. In other words, despite the fact that the Japanese think of this area as &#8220;countryside,&#8221; it has a significant [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japanese &#8220;The Office&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.searchforamethod.com/2008/05/19/japanese-the-office/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 04:23:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Funny]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Japanese version of &#8220;The Office&#8221; from last week&#8217;s SNL. This could not be more fantastic:

In case you&#8217;re wondering - they are actually speaking Japanese and, while simplified, they are making the same jokes as the American version.

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		<title>On with the show</title>
		<link>http://www.searchforamethod.com/2008/05/18/on-with-the-show/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 01:15:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JER</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[English teaching]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Numazu]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Now that I&#8217;ve finished writing about our recent travels, I&#8217;m going to start writing quick posts whenever I can about our classes, our apartment, and other aspects of our life here in Numazu. Whenever I get a little bit more time, I&#8217;ll also be writing about anything else that&#8217;s going on here that may be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>And Home Again&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.searchforamethod.com/2008/05/14/and-home-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 03:47:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sorry for not finishing this more quickly, but we had a busy weekend and I&#8217;ve been busily trying to plan our trip to China in August this week.
So, on our last day in Kyoto, we headed to Nijo castle for a little break from temple viewing. Nijo castle was built by Tokugawa Ieyasu, the founder [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kyoto - A Treasure-spotted Metropolis</title>
		<link>http://www.searchforamethod.com/2008/05/10/kyoto-a-treasure-spotted-metropolis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2008 00:59:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s not much more to be said about Nara - the primary attraction is obviously Todaiji and its daibutsu. There is also a very large five-storied pagoda in the temple complex of Kofuku-ji with a peaceful little pond behind it:

And, of course, no trip to Nara would be complete without feeding the free-roaming deer in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From Koyasan to Nara</title>
		<link>http://www.searchforamethod.com/2008/05/08/from-koyasan-to-nara/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 03:16:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The next morning, we woke up at 6:00 so that we could attend Kumagaiji&#8217;s Buddhist ceremony at 6:30. It was an interesting experience - as we entered we were given some incense to rub on our hands and a shawl reading &#8220;Koyasan&#8221; to wear around our necks. Then, we took seats among the other people [...]]]></description>
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