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		<title>Fake Plastic Food</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/107185/fake-plastic-food/</link>
		<comments>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/107185/fake-plastic-food/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Sep 2010 23:39:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[fake]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fake food samples can be typically found in the windows and display cases of restaurants throughout Japan. They are usually made out of plastic. As you can see from the pictures in this blog post, these realistic replicas are quite helpful, especially if you can’t read the menu in Japanese. With my awesome Japanese (not!), [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Onsen</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/106215/onsen-2/</link>
		<comments>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/106215/onsen-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Sep 2010 05:16:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An onsen, which means hot spring in the Japanese language, is a bathing facility typically located around a hot spring, popular with Japanese locals and tourists. There are indoor and outdoor onsens, many are part of a ryokan or traditional Japanese inn. Traditionally, men and women bathed together at the onsen, but separate bathing is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shibuya Night Lights</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/105580/shibuya-night-lights/</link>
		<comments>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/105580/shibuya-night-lights/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2010 00:18:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a follow-up to my recent Shinjuku Night Lights and Akihabara Night Lights blog posts, this blog post is a pictorial of Shibuya at night near the Shibuya Crossing. A couple of photos of the Parco department store lit up.]]></description>
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		<title>Drink Keitai Straps Giveaway</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/105020/drink-keitai-straps-giveaway/</link>
		<comments>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/105020/drink-keitai-straps-giveaway/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Sep 2010 20:18:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To help improve sales, keitai (mobile phone) straps are sometimes included in Japanese drinks as a free gift, such those shown below for Calpis Water, CC Lemon and Mitsuya Cider. Well, I guess it works … below is a picture of my collection taken just before we left Japan.]]></description>
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		<title>Meguro Gajoen</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/104079/meguro-gajoen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Sep 2010 17:43:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[atrium]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[banquet]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Meguro Gajoen]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Built in 1935 and known as the Showa Era’s ‘Palace of the Dragon God,’ Meguro Gajoen was the first wedding complex to be built in Japan, with banquet halls and luxury hotel facilities. The main attraction is the spacious atrium garden which is entirely covered by a glass dome featuring a natural stream and greenery. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan In The News: HRP-4 is Japan’s Latest Humanoid Robot</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/103224/japan-in-the-news-hrp-4-is-japan%e2%80%99s-latest-humanoid-robot/</link>
		<comments>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/103224/japan-in-the-news-hrp-4-is-japan%e2%80%99s-latest-humanoid-robot/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Sep 2010 14:54:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Check out Japan’s latest robotic creation called HRP-4 made by the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST). You can own one for just $325,000 according to Crunch Gear. For more, read Crunch Gear “HRP-4: Meet Japan’s New And Awesome Humanoid Robot” and CNN.Go “HRP-4 robot: Savior of Japan’s labor shortage?”.]]></description>
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		<title>Shibuya</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/102897/shibuya-4/</link>
		<comments>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/102897/shibuya-4/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Sep 2010 16:20:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[crossing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shibuya is one of the twenty-three city wards of Tokyo, but often refers to just the popular shopping and entertainment area around Shibuya subway station.  Most of the area’s large department and fashion stores belong to either Tokyu or Seibu, two competing corporations. It is one of Tokyo’s most colorful and busy districts, and birthplace [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ramune</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/102179/ramune/</link>
		<comments>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/102179/ramune/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Sep 2010 16:24:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ramune is a very popular soft drink during warm festival days and nights (and this year has been the hottest summer on record).  It has a unique iconic design, with a Codd-neck (named after the inventor, Hiram Codd) bottle and a glass marble to seal the top of the bottle (pushed down into the bottle [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Randoseru</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/101596/randoseru/</link>
		<comments>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/101596/randoseru/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Sep 2010 17:17:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[backpack]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Japanese elementary school students use backpack called Randoseru. These backpacks typically costs over 40,000 yen (US$400) or more because they are very durable to be used daily throughout elementary school (which is 6 years).  Traditionally, the colors of the randoseru were generally black for boys and red for girls – today there are many colors [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ebisu</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/101008/ebisu-2/</link>
		<comments>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/101008/ebisu-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 02:04:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[beer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ebisu is a trendy neighborhood near Shibuya, Tokyo, easily accessed either by the JR Yamanote or Tokyo Metro Hibiya subway lines. The main attraction is the Yebisu Garden Place, with several high rise buildings including the Yebisu Garden Place Tower and Westin Hotel.  You will also find many small boutiques as well as English-style drinking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pancake Drink</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/100225/pancake-drink/</link>
		<comments>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/100225/pancake-drink/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 01:17:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A guest blog post by a colleague in Japan who sent me the following a picture she took recently of new drink by Morinaga.  Thanks M.  I wish I was still in Tokyo because I would have also loved to try this very sweet drink. “I found this drink in a random vending machine in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Akihabara Night Lights</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/99480/akihabara-night-lights/</link>
		<comments>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/99480/akihabara-night-lights/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Sep 2010 15:25:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a follow-up to my recent Shinjuku Night Lights blog post, this blog post is a pictorial of Akihabara at night along the Chuo Dori main street. Finally, a picture of the Yodobashi electronic store near the JR station at night (I bit too dark or underexposed).]]></description>
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		<title>Tomioka Hachimangu Shrine</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/99060/tomioka-hachimangu-shrine/</link>
		<comments>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/99060/tomioka-hachimangu-shrine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 21:30:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[garden]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the same vicinity as the Kiyosumi Teien Garden (in my last blog post), you will find the Tomioka Hachimangu Shrine, founded in 1627, a shinto shrine dedicated to the kami (god) Hachiman. There is a small Japanese garden and pond to one side of the shrine area with a few red torii gates. This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kiyosumi Teien Garden</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/98238/kiyosumi-teien-garden/</link>
		<comments>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/98238/kiyosumi-teien-garden/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:36:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[bridge]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Located in Tokyo’s Koto ward, the Kiyosumi Teien Garden is a Japanese style garden set out in the sukiya style (a pond inhabited by birds and with three small islands). Near the garden entrance is the Taisho Kinenkan, a memorial hall of Emperor Taisho, which played a part in the funeral of the Emperor Taisho. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Imperial Palace</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/97332/imperial-palace/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 03:51:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Imperial Palace in the center of Tokyo is a popular tourist attraction and the Eastern Garden is open to the public (free of charge). The Eastern Garden is the former site of Edo Castle’s innermost circles of defense, the honmaru (&#34;main circle&#34;) and ninomaru (&#34;secondary circle&#34;).  None of the main buildings remain today. There [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan In the News: iPad for giant sumo wrestlers</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/96488/japan-in-the-news-ipad-for-giant-sumo-wrestlers/</link>
		<comments>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/96488/japan-in-the-news-ipad-for-giant-sumo-wrestlers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 18:05:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent news article from Reuters declares that the iPad is the right fit for giant sumo wrestlers. This is just another example of how tradition and modern technology go together in Japan, as sumo is one of its most ancient sports.  It’s a big iPhone for big wrestlers!]]></description>
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		<title>Sony Building Ginza</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/96373/sony-building-ginza/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 17:55:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Opened in 1966, the Sony Building is a Ginza landmark and features a variety of shops, showrooms and restaurants. Inside, there are several floors where you can see, touch and try (and of course, buy) the latest Sony products.]]></description>
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		<title>Hello Kitty in Odaiba</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/95696/hello-kitty-in-odaiba/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 18:05:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last year, I wrote about the 30th year anniversary life size Gundam model robot which stood near the Rainbow Bridge in Tokyo, on the man-made peninsula of Odaiba.  Now, another of Japan’s favorite characters, Hello Kitty, stands 8 meters tall in Tokyo Bay in Odaiba. Below is a cool, short time-lapse YouTube video – which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ginza</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/95153/ginza-4/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Aug 2010 20:45:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ginza is recognized as one of the most luxurious and upscale shopping districts in the world. The heart of Ginza is the intersection of Chuo-dori and Harumi-dori, with corners occupied by the Sanai Building, Wako and Mitsukoshi and the Nissan Gallery. Weekends on Chuo-dori are Pedestrians’ Paradise, with the street closed to motor traffic during [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shinjuku Night Lights</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/94640/shinjuku-night-lights/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 15:43:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had blogged about Shinjuku last year.  It is one of the most popular and famous districts in Tokyo, Japan.  This blog post is a pictorial of Shinjuku at night around the JR Shinjuku station.  It is always challenging to take sharp pictures at night using a handheld camera. South Exit – Takashimaya West – [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Food Magazine grocery store</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/94639/food-magazine-grocery-store/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 17:17:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a Food Magazine grocery store near our apartment in Roppongi Hills, Tokyo – catering mainly to the gaijin or expat community in the area. With two floors, this grocery store is very clean and the products are placed in an orderly manner in the shelves. There is also a bakery offering freshly baked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tokyo Skyscrapers</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/93093/tokyo-skyscrapers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Aug 2010 15:47:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Currently, the Tokyo Tower is the tallest structure in Tokyo at a height of 333 meters.  Tokyo Sky Tree is still under construction and is scheduled to be completed in 2011 at a record height of 634 meters. Here is the Top 10 tallest buildings in Tokyo: 1. Midtown Tower (248 meters) The Midtown Tower [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kendo</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/92487/kendo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 14:42:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Immortalized in the action movies of Akira Kurosawa and in the bestselling novel Musashi, Kendo is one of the oldest of Japan’s martial arts and is most closely associated with the samurai. In recent years, it has developed into a popular and highly competitive sport enjoyed by thousands of men and women around the world. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Architecture of Kenzo Tange in Tokyo</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/91589/the-architecture-of-kenzo-tange-in-tokyo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 22:42:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the most influential Japanese architects of the 20th century is Kenzo Tange (1913-2005).  The 1987 Pritzker Prize winner has a number of unique masterpieces dotted around Tokyo as part of his ambitious 1959 plan for the “Structural Re-organization of Tokyo”. 1. Tokyo Metropolitan Government The Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building, also referred to as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yokohama Minato Mirai 21</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/90777/yokohama-minato-mirai-21/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 15:25:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Completing this series of blog posts about the city of Yokohama is Minato Mirai 21, a seaside urban area in central Yokohama whose name means &#34;harbor of the future&#34;.   It has many large high-rises, shopping centers, hotels, a convention center, museums, parks, etc.  Until the 1980s the area was a large shipyard, but the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yokohama Motomachi Shotengai</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/90237/yokohama-motomachi-shotengai/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 21:21:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Near Yokohama Chinatown, you can find Motomachi Shotengai (shopping street), a fashionable shopping street with several hundred well-established designer brand boutiques, cafes, bakeries and unique stores. Its beginning can be tracked back to 1859 during the opening of the Yokohama Port.  The street initially served the needs of the first foreign residents of Yokohama, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yokohama Chinatown</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/89744/yokohama-chinatown/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 17:46:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yokohama Chinatown (Yokohama Chukagai) is Japan’s largest chinatown, located in central Yokohama. Yokohama Chinatown quickly developed after the port of Yokohama had been one of the first Japanese ports to be opened to foreign trade in 1859. It became the residence of the many Chinese traders who settled down in the city.   Today, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kyu Iwasaki-tei Gardens</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/88826/kyu-iwasaki-tei-gardens/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:13:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Located in Ueno, the Kyu Iwasaki-tei Gardens is the former estate of the Iwasaki clan who were the founders of Mitsubishi.  The main attraction is the impressive, Western style, two story (with basement) manor house that was completed in 1896 and was the Iwasaki’s main residence. The manor was designed by Josiah Conder (1852-1920), a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Takashita Dori</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/88067/takashita-dori/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Takeshita Dori (Takeshita Street) is a 400 meter, pedestrian-only street lined with fashion boutiques, cafes and restaurants in Harajuku in Tokyo, Japan. Located directly across from the exit of JR Harajuku Station and very crowded especially on weekends, it is very popular with local young teenagers and tourists. It is considered the birthplace of many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tokyo International Forum</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/87358/tokyo-international-forum-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 22:42:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Opened in January 1997, the Tokyo International Forum is a multi-purpose convention and art center located in Marunouchi, Chiyoda. With four buildings, each housing a unique hall, plus the distinctive atrium of the Glass Building, the 7 multi-sized halls and 34 conference rooms cater to a wide range of events throughout the year. In addition, [...]]]></description>
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