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		<title>Summer Fun in Tokyo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some recommended activities for the summer&#8230; 納涼船 &#8211; all you can drink boat cruise that runs every night the whole summer http://www.tokaikisen.co.jp/english/event/noryo2010/ Japanese page has more info: http://www.tokaikisen.co.jp/event/noryo2010/ 2500 yen, or 1500 yen if you wear a yukata (Monday-Thursday only) Another all you can EAT AND DRINK boat ride (monja/okonomiyaki) 4900 yen, but it is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Online Tokyo Club Event Listings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently my friend asked me for info on where he can find a drum &#38; bass event in Tokyo. Personally I&#8217;m more into trance. Anyway, here are three good sites for checking what&#8217;s playing in Tokyo clubs and when. http://higherfrequency.iflyer.jp/tokyo/ http://www.clubberia.com/Club/List/ http://clubtune.jp/search.php Lets you search the listings by genre, etc. Nice touch. As for venues, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Startup and venture capital culture: America vs. Japan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently my professor was quoted in an article from Forbes: Starting Up Start-Ups In Japan: Obstacles abound; new U.S. ambassador expected to highlight importance of venture culture. Another interesting article is also linked to on that page: Searching For Entrepreneurship in Japan. I am not an expert on this subject, but in my 7+ years in Japan I have talked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Renting an apartment in Japan: expenses, guarantors, and prejudice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Let me start with a little background for anyone who is not familiar with the Japanese real estate system and what it&#8217;s like to find housing in Tokyo. First, let me discuss the fees. Before you can move into an apartment here, you will need to pay up front about 6-8 months of rent. Some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quick tips for visiting Japan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently a couple of my friends have been asking for tips on what to see and to when visiting Japan. I decided to gather a few of my responses and post them here, so I can just give out this web page to people. Feel free to add your own suggestions! This is by no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Product design and manufacturing in a global world: Japan vs America &#8211; MacBook Air</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently I came across this article which sheds a bit of light on Japanese manufacturing methodology vs Apple&#8217;s. I think it&#8217;s far easier for the Japanese engineers to critique the crappy Taiwanese construction rather than to create their own new device from scratch. But it&#8217;s too bad though that Apple doesn&#8217;t have a bit more [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blissfuljapan.com/2009/01/product-design-manufacturing-in-global-world-japan-vs-america-macbook-air/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=product-design-manufacturing-in-global-world-japan-vs-america-macbook-air</link>
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		<title>Thoughts on the success of Yahoo and Google in Japan&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently I was forwarded this article from TechCrunch: Why Yahoo Japan is Worth Nearly as Much as Yahoo. It is worth a read, but I&#8217;d like to add a few thoughts. Here is my experience with Yahoo Japan, since having moved to Tokyo in 2001. 1) YahooBB YahooBB took off because it was simply cheaper [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nobody sleeps like the Japanese do</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Apparently there is a Facebook group to post photos of people sleeping in crazy or uncomfortable looking positions in Japan&#8230; This is actually a really good idea. The group is called simply, &#8220;Nobody sleeps like the Japanese do.&#8221; Here are a few pictures which I have taken recently, and another which was recently posted on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pendre shorts &#8211; fundoshi loincloth for women &#8211; the next trend in Japan?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A friend of mine just forwarded this post on JapanProbe about women&#8217;s fundoshi. My quickest description of a fundoshi would be traditional Japanese g-string loincloth underwear for men. According to Wikipedia: Before World War II the fundoshi was the main form of underwear for Japanese adult males; however it went out of use quickly after [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Akihabara girls&#8217; dorm&#8221; &#8211; Let&#8217;s play in our pajamas!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I went to Akihabara last month to help my friend buy a terabyte drive (only 17,500 yen now!) and external case (4500 yen for a nice one), where I was of course deluged with cute girls in costumes handing out flyers to come to their stores. Here&#8217;s the first flyer that I received, along with [...]]]></description>
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