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	<title>The Japan Times &#187; Thomas Dillon</title>
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		<title>All lost in the lost-and-found</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 15:10:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d lost my keys. Which is unsettling enough. For you do not begin to truly ransack your brain — where in the rising sun could they be? — until you&#8217;ve ransacked your house. And I mean ransack. Drawers emptied, floorboards pried, every pocket of every garment probed and probed again, and then family members frisked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Driving me crazy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2013 15:20:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Dillon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Next to my house lies a carpet of land not flat enough to resist puddles and not sandy enough to attract cats. It just sits there. Empty. &#8220;Symbolic,&#8221; says a friend, &#8220;of the hole in your life.&#8221; He means the car I do not have. Raised amidst the free-flowing highways of the American plains, he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who is that masked woman?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2013 11:35:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Dillon</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I lay in bed with a woman with a mask on her face. So I roll her way and coo in her unmasked ear . . . &#8220;You can hide your face but not your passion.&#8221; To which she sighs and coos back . . . &#8220;Oh shuttup.&#8221; I suppose it could be worse. It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Signs of Kansai</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2013 17:35:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Dillon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Kansai dialect]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kobe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Osaka]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[At the end of lunch with an old friend, I point out yet another hole in my Swiss cheese knowledge of Japan. &#8220;I&#8217;ve never really understood this whole &#8216;Kansai/Kanto&#8217; thing. I mean, sure, I&#8217;ve traveled to Kyoto, Osaka and so on. But I&#8217;ve never figured out what&#8217;s so different. Kansai? Kanto? Tokyo? Osaka? It all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When in doubt, keep running</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jan 2013 00:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Dillon</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[My buddy grinds his teeth and says, &#8220;You know what irks about this country?&#8221; And so I summon all the usual suspects . . . The insular mindset? The high cost of living? The crowded trains? The summer heat? &#8220;No,&#8221; he hisses. &#8220;It&#8217;s in baseball when guys try to slide into first base. It drives [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A peek inside the cave</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Dec 2012 00:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Dillon</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The term &#8220;man cave&#8221; has been added to the dictionary. At last. I&#8217;m referring to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, but surely those other country clubs of words and wisdom will follow suit. For once you&#8217;ve been welcomed by the language Vanderbilts, everyone else soon yearns to have you over. So here it is, the Merriam-Webster plaque [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When the past catches up</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Dec 2012 00:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Dillon</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Ha ha! I can&#8217;t believe it&#8217;s you!&#8221; The man extends his hand as if pointing a pistol. I spin around, just to check, but there is no mistaking. The target is me. He wrenches my wrist. &#8220;How long has it been, I wonder? Years and years!&#8221; I pump my arm to match his. &#8220;Oh yes! [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When the past catches up</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Dec 2012 00:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Dillon</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Ha ha! I can&#8217;t believe it&#8217;s you!&#8221; The man extends his hand as if pointing a pistol. I spin around, just to check, but there is no mistaking. The target is me. He wrenches my wrist. &#8220;How long has it been, I wonder? Years and years!&#8221; I pump my arm to match his. &#8220;Oh yes! [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A little bit of telephone talk</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Nov 2012 00:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Dillon</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I see,&#8221; I say. And then I say, &#8220;I see.&#8221; And a few more times as well. &#8220;I see. I see. I see.&#8221; &#8220;You say, &#8216;I see,&#8217; too much,&#8221; says my wife, who has been eavesdropping as I spoke with my boss via telephone &#8212; a brief conversation spiced with multiple &#8220;I see&#8221;s, which is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In the valley of the uncanny</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Nov 2012 00:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Dillon</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I am at this bar, see, and with me are two friends. Both have lived in Japan as long as I have, give or take, and both claim to like it here, mostly. &#8220;Mostly my eye,&#8221; says my first friend. Let&#8217;s call him Mutt. And Mutt says, &#8220;I adore Japan! No qualifications whatsoever!&#8221; &#8220;Likewise,&#8221; says [...]]]></description>
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