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		<title>Nori</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2013 15:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Gordenker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Alice, I was out for a walk with my camera the other day and came across a puzzling scene. I saw people putting what I thought were squares of dark paper onto easels in the sun, as if to dry. But when I went closer, the squares actually seemed to be nori seaweed sheets, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>War&#333;soku</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2013 12:21:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Gordenker</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Alice, My Japanese mother-in-law is very traditional and spends at lot of time maintaining the family butsudan, the cabinet-like Buddhist altar in the main room of her home. It is part of her daily routine to light candles, pray and make small offerings of food to the deceased relatives memorialized there. So when my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Senkyo post&#257; keijiba</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2012 00:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Gordenker</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Alice, Thank you as always for your interesting column. I have a question about those temporary bulletin boards that crop up from time to time, the ones with the blank squares with numbers in the center. One appeared recently near my home, soon followed by the noise pollution of another election, by which I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Emergency announcements</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/11/20/reference/emergency-announcements/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=emergency-announcements</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2012 00:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Gordenker</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Alice, I&#8217;ve lived in Japan for four years and although I speak a fair amount of Japanese, I can&#8217;t make out what the heck ambulance crews are saying on their loudspeakers when they&#8217;re trying to get through traffic. Are those set phrases or are they speaking to the specific situation on the road? It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Straw belts</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2012 00:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Gordenker</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Alice, My question is about those straw belts that get wrapped around the trunks of pine trees a meter or so above the ground. I know they have something to do with fooling insects into laying their eggs in the straw instead of the bark, but could you give us more details? For example, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What it means to be &#8216;Made in Japan&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2012 00:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Gordenker</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Made in Japan&#8221; is a such a simple phrase, yet it instantly evokes an image of exceptional design and high-quality production. Japan today is known for creating some of the most stylish, innovative and whimsical products in the world. Tokyo-based architect and writer Naomi Pollock spent the last two years immersed in Japanese product design, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kaohame</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2012 00:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Gordenker</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Alice, I travel a lot within Japan, and often come across a dated sort of tourist attraction that I don&#8217;t know quite how to describe. They are wooden façades, often hand-painted and rather amateurish, depicting a person or persons with a hole where the head should be. A passing tourist can stand behind the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chindonya</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2012 00:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Gordenker</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Alice, Some years ago on a visit to Japan, in Osaka, we came across a wandering band dressed in full kimono and playing what sounded like Dixieland jazz on an odd assortment of Japanese and Western instruments. From what I could make out, they were promoting a business, but I never did learn what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Slow design: Everyday objects that make us rethink our lifestyle</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2012 00:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Gordenker</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve never been to the 21_21 Design Sight exhibition space in the Tokyo Midtown complex, and have even a passing interest in craftsmanship, now is the time to pay a visit. Just touring the building, which was designed by famed architect Tadao Ando and lies largely underground, would be well worth the admission price. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seaweed Salt</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2012 00:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Gordenker</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Alice, I recently received a gift of some special kind of Japanese salt. If I understood correctly, this particular salt is made from seaweed and by some ancient Japanese production method. It&#8217;s beige in color and has a nice, rich taste. But I have no idea what it&#8217;s called or where it&#8217;s made. Can [...]]]></description>
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