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		<title>Notes on the Shinto Religion and Anime</title>
		<link>http://bugfox.net/fun/2010/09/07/notes-on-the-shinto-religion-and-anime/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 02:25:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Tappan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japanese Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shinto]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you ask an English-speaking Japanese person about religion, you will probably be told something like this: &#8220;I am not religious but I practice Buddhism and Shinto because that is my tradition.&#8221; This leads many people to conclude that Japan is not a very religious country. After all, most Americans would claim to believe in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No need to know the law, but you must obey it</title>
		<link>http://bugfox.net/fun/2010/06/28/no-need-to-know-the-law-but-you-must-obey-it/</link>
		<comments>http://bugfox.net/fun/2010/06/28/no-need-to-know-the-law-but-you-must-obey-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 02:25:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Tappan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Japanese Culture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Colin P. A. Jones discusses the often arbitrary way that Japanese laws are enforced. Foreign visitors to Japan often comment on how polite the Japanese people are, but little do they know that it is actually against the law to be rude. Under Article 231 of the Penal Code it is a crime to &#8220;insult [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disposable Electric Car</title>
		<link>http://bugfox.net/fun/2010/05/24/disposable-electric-car/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 14:13:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Tappan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Japanese Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[electric car]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Japanese companies have developed an electric car made of paper and bamboo. &#8220;Just don&#8217;t drive it off-road into a forest full of pandas.&#8221;]]></description>
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		<title>Robot Performs Wedding</title>
		<link>http://bugfox.net/fun/2010/05/16/robot-performs-wedding/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 01:05:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Tappan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Japanese Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wonderful and Strange]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robots]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Eyes flashing, robot conducts wedding in Tokyo. Somebody asked, &#8220;Is that legal? A Robot, since the minister has to sign the Marriage License!&#8221; The answer is that in Japan what the law requires is to update the family registers at the local government office. The ceremony may be important to the families, but it has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strange Sushi Commercial</title>
		<link>http://bugfox.net/fun/2010/05/02/strange-sushi-commercial/</link>
		<comments>http://bugfox.net/fun/2010/05/02/strange-sushi-commercial/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 May 2010 16:34:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Tappan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Japanese Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wonderful and Strange]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sushi]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Lisa Katayama calls this a &#8220;funny sushi restaurant commercial.&#8221; For me the words that come to mind are &#8220;bizarre&#8221; and &#8220;disturbing&#8221;.]]></description>
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		<title>A Japanese Scholar Considers Anime Bad For Kids</title>
		<link>http://bugfox.net/fun/2010/03/08/a-japanese-scholar-considers-anime-bad-for-kids/</link>
		<comments>http://bugfox.net/fun/2010/03/08/a-japanese-scholar-considers-anime-bad-for-kids/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:57:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Tappan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japanese Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zenryoku Usagi]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Author&#8221; is puzzled by a Japanese graduate student at an American university who lets his children watch American cartoons, but not anime. I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s very surprising. Assuming that the kids are under 10, then the vast majority of the anime available here is not appropriate for them. Unlike the American cartoons, they are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When Sumo Wrestlers Go Bad</title>
		<link>http://bugfox.net/fun/2010/03/07/when-sumo-wrestlers-go-bad/</link>
		<comments>http://bugfox.net/fun/2010/03/07/when-sumo-wrestlers-go-bad/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 12:46:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Tappan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Japanese Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sumo]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sumo wrestler steals cash machine from Moscow shop. (via)]]></description>
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		<title>Memoirs of a Samurai Gangster</title>
		<link>http://bugfox.net/fun/2010/02/14/memoirs-of-a-samurai-gangster/</link>
		<comments>http://bugfox.net/fun/2010/02/14/memoirs-of-a-samurai-gangster/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 02:16:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Tappan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japanese Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Musui's Story]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Musui&#8217;s Story&#8211;The Autobiography of a Takugawa Samurai by Kokichi Katsu offers an unusual glimpse into a side of historical Japan that is rarely discussed, the seedy underside of life in the romantic Edo period. Instead of being the sort of noble and upright samurai that is usually depicted, the author comes off as a cheerful [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wife of Prime Minister Visits Venus</title>
		<link>http://bugfox.net/fun/2009/09/03/wife-of-prime-minister-visits-venus/</link>
		<comments>http://bugfox.net/fun/2009/09/03/wife-of-prime-minister-visits-venus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:19:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Tappan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Japanese Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Miyuki Hatoyama]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Miyuki Hatoyama, the wife of Japan&#8217;s newly elected Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, seems to have some unusual views. She traveled on a UFO to Venus &#8220;while my body was asleep.&#8221; She says &#8220;It was a very beautiful place and it was really green.&#8221; She used to know Tom Cruise in a previous life. (He was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Pagodas Don&#8217;t Fall Down</title>
		<link>http://bugfox.net/fun/2009/07/31/why-pagodas-dont-fall-down/</link>
		<comments>http://bugfox.net/fun/2009/07/31/why-pagodas-dont-fall-down/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:57:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Tappan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Japanese Culture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Economist examines the question of why Japanese pagodas don&#8217;t fall down during earthquakes. The answer is a bit surprising.]]></description>
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