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		<title>Hanging plant decorates fence in front of empty lot</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/105861/hanging-plant-decorates-fence-in-front-of-empty%c2%a0lot/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2010 08:25:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Unknown]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[decorate]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I like how someone has hung this simple plant, commonly called “wandering Jew” in the United States, on the fence in front of this empty lot. The lot has been empty for at least two years, a long time between demolition and reconstruction. The fence occasionally changes, but it was especially nice to see some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fall omatsuri in my neighborhood</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/104772/fall-omatsuri-in-my-neighborhood/</link>
		<comments>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/104772/fall-omatsuri-in-my-neighborhood/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Sep 2010 06:57:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The lanterns announce that the omatsuri festival will be happening Using simple plumbers’ fixtures and scaffolding, flexible and removable frames for lighted paper lanterns are erected all over the city. I find omatsuri incredibly charming: a public street festival evoking rice farming and harvests, organized in Tokyo around tiny local shrines, work organizations, and local [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In My Bag: A New Social Network for People with Bags</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/103187/in-my-bag-a-new-social-network-for-people-with-bags/</link>
		<comments>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/103187/in-my-bag-a-new-social-network-for-people-with-bags/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Sep 2010 14:26:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I started studying IT Communication and Computer Security in high school, I was forced into using a bag, every day. I was never much of a bag person, but in recent years they’ve grown on me. For the past 3-4 years or so, I’ve used side bags rather than the traditional backpack. But just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sunflowers by Tokyo Metro station</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/102561/sunflowers-by-tokyo-metro-station/</link>
		<comments>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/102561/sunflowers-by-tokyo-metro-station/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Sep 2010 00:04:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I was going into the Tokyo Metro station not far from my house, and I noticed a young woman spraying these blooming sunflowers. She explained she was killing bugs, and that she worked at the hair salon on the other side of this very random looking planting bed. I was very charmed that this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crow Planet’s insights into urban wildness</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/102471/crow-planet%e2%80%99s-insights-into-urban-wildness/</link>
		<comments>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/102471/crow-planet%e2%80%99s-insights-into-urban-wildness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 00:08:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am reading Lyanda Lynn Haugpt’s Crow Planet, a book about closely observing city crows that offer many insights on urban wildness. Haugpt is part of an urban ecology movement that I identify with. If  city dwelling is a given for us– as it is for more than half the world’s population–how can we explore [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interactive map of Tokyo DIY Gardening</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/102119/interactive-map-of-tokyo-diy-gardening/</link>
		<comments>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/102119/interactive-map-of-tokyo-diy-gardening/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Sep 2010 01:17:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chris has taken images from last month’s Tokyo DIY Gardening workshop at 3331 Arts Chiyoda, and created an amazing interactive map of Tokyo green space. Using photos, pens, markers, origami, and other stuff, 30 participants drew a giant collaborative map of Tokyo’s existing and imagined green spaces. In this interactive version, Chris shows off the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Roppongi West Park is a quiet oasis on back street</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/101597/roppongi-west-park-is-a-quiet-oasis-on-back-street/</link>
		<comments>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/101597/roppongi-west-park-is-a-quiet-oasis-on-back-street/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Sep 2010 01:42:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Roppongi is a very foreign neighborhood for me since I rarely visit its offices, nightclubs and museums. However, with the recent conference, I took a friend along a back street between mega developments Mid Town and Roppongi Hills. We stumbled a very charming, small park named Roppongi West Park (六本木西公園). It was a welcome escape [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan Internet Tech Entrepreneur Event In San Francisco</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/100003/japan-internet-tech-entrepreneur-event-in-san-francisco/</link>
		<comments>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/100003/japan-internet-tech-entrepreneur-event-in-san-francisco/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 08:04:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A first of its kind event is being held in San Francisco featuring Japanese Entrepreneurs on October 13, 2010.  This event named SFNewTech Japan Night is the vision of Brandon K. Hill, President/CEO of btrax, Inc – a San Francisco based digital consultancy agency.  “I wanted to help Japanese Entrepreneurs extend their market outside of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Elaborate sidewalk garden includes plant labels and stools</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/99536/elaborate-sidewalk-garden-includes-plant-labels-and-stools/</link>
		<comments>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/99536/elaborate-sidewalk-garden-includes-plant-labels-and-stools/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 00:12:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Shinjuku ni-chome sidewalk garden is exceptional in its size, care, and labeling. The gardener lives in a former shop in an old building on what is now a busy entertainment district. From the sidewalk, you can see what appears to be merchandise, t-shirts and a few dress shirts, in the front room open to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Documenting Tokyo DIY Gardening workshop’s green city map</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/98952/documenting-tokyo-diy-gardening-workshop%e2%80%99s-green-city-map/</link>
		<comments>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/98952/documenting-tokyo-diy-gardening-workshop%e2%80%99s-green-city-map/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 09:46:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In today’s sweltering heat, my Tokyo DIY Gardening co-instigator Chris Berthelsen and 3331 Arts Chiyoda‘s Emma Ota documented the giant green city map created in the art center workshop two weeks ago. It’s always inspiring to work with Chris, who is full of creative ideas and the energy to realize them. He’s already shared one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Park signage: hand-drawn and printed</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/95285/park-signage-hand-drawn-and-printed/</link>
		<comments>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/95285/park-signage-hand-drawn-and-printed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Aug 2010 03:42:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to the 30 people who participated in the Tokyo DIY Gardening workshop last night at 3331 Arts Chiyoda. We created an enormous collage map and shared interesting stories and images of Tokyo’s wonderful green spaces, existing and imagined. A big thanks to Chris Berthelsen for conceiving, preparing and motivating this participatory project. We’ll digitize [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dwango Enters Engineer Hiring Race With OSS Community Grant</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/95028/dwango-enters-engineer-hiring-race-with-oss-community-grant/</link>
		<comments>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/95028/dwango-enters-engineer-hiring-race-with-oss-community-grant/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Aug 2010 13:09:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following to the 20 million users social gaming networks Gree and DeNA’s hiring competition with over $20,000 rewards for engineers beginning 4 days ago, Dwango (Asiajin), who has much longer history on Japanese cellphone game, also known by their Japanese YouTube counter movie community Nico Nico Douga, announced their new rewards plan to their newly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Park and green roof provide cultural window at 3331 Arts Chiyoda</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/94912/park-and-green-roof-provide-cultural-window-at-3331-arts-chiyoda/</link>
		<comments>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/94912/park-and-green-roof-provide-cultural-window-at-3331-arts-chiyoda/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 07:28:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A reminder that tomorrow night is the Tokyo DIY Gardening Workshop at 3331 Arts Chiyoda, a great new arts space in a converted junior high school. I took these photos last week when I went there for a planning meeting with my workshop co-organizer Chris Berthelsen of Fixes. It’s great that in addition to all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Startup Saturday 2010: Asian Start-up Entrepreneurs Meet Together In HK (2/2)</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/93908/startup-saturday-2010-asian-start-up-entrepreneurs-meet-together-in-hk-22/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 15:07:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Continued from Startup Saturday 2010: Asian Start-up Entrepreneurs Meet Together In HK (1/2) Startup Showcase Round 2: Nanbeijie.com Nanbeijie (南北街)  is an entertainment focused social shopping company that transforms online shopping into a social gaming experience. Utilising social gaming, virtual currencies and merging it with entertaining shopping games to create a new experience in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Startup Saturday 2010: Asian Start-up Entrepreneurs Meet Together In HK (1/2)</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/93511/startup-saturday-2010-asian-start-up-entrepreneurs-meet-together-in-hk-12/</link>
		<comments>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/93511/startup-saturday-2010-asian-start-up-entrepreneurs-meet-together-in-hk-12/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 11:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On August 7, at Cyberport in Hong Kong, there was a one-day conference giving Hong Kong and Asian entrepreneurs the opportunities to present their services and discussing the future of tech start-up communities in the region. There are two hubs for incubating tech start-ups in Hong Kong.   One is Cyberport, which is located on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Report Of Asiajin Shanghai Meetup</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/93483/report-of-asiajin-shanghai-meetup/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 09:14:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a report of Asiajin Shanghai Meetup which was held on July 24th. The meetup was held at Sunstyle showroom in Shanghai Sculpture Space. Thank you so much to Gang Lu and George Godula for securing a venue. More than 20 people have gathered to the event on this very hot day in Shanghai. Five [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reminder: Tokyo DIY Gardening workshop at 3331 Arts Cyd, Aug 21 from 7 to 9 pm</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/91438/reminder-tokyo-diy-gardening-workshop-at-3331-arts-cyd-aug-21-from-7-to-9-pm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Aug 2010 14:19:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Please come to our Tokyo DIY Gardening workshop at the new 3331 Arts Chiyoda space where we invite your participation in re-imagining of Tokyo as the greenest city full of gardens, plants, and trees. The workshop will be held in Japanese and English on August 21, from 7 to 9 pm.]]></description>
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		<title>Empty lots are abundant and under-used</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/90988/empty-lots-are-abundant-and-under-used/</link>
		<comments>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/90988/empty-lots-are-abundant-and-under-used/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Aug 2010 00:05:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tokyo is full of empty lots that mark the time between demolition and building. Sometimes they stay empty for more than a year. Most are turned into automated parking lots, some so small they only provide space for a single car. Some in busier neighborhoods get covered in gravel and host crepe shops in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Baidu’s Popular Service Tieba Comes To Baidu Japan</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/90116/baidu%e2%80%99s-popular-service-tieba-comes-to-baidu-japan/</link>
		<comments>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/90116/baidu%e2%80%99s-popular-service-tieba-comes-to-baidu-japan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 15:02:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Baidu Tieba(“Paste Bar” in English) [Zh] is an ultra popular community service run by the world second largest search engine Baidu [Zh]. The uniqueness of Tieba is that it combined search engine and forum, by guiding search results to related discussion boards. If the searched word did not have a counterpart forum, users are suggested [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tokyo-DIY-gardening project launches!</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/88366/tokyo-diy-gardening-project-launches/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:05:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am super-excited to let everyone know that in partnership with the amazing Chris Berthelsen of Fixes, we have launched a new project called Tokyo-DIY-gardening. There is a website where we hope others will contribute. You can follow our Twitter  hash tag #tokyoDIYgardening. And, if you are in Tokyo, please come to our interactive workshop [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Town creates art in rice paddies for economic revival</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/87603/town-creates-art-in-rice-paddies-for-economic-revival/</link>
		<comments>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/87603/town-creates-art-in-rice-paddies-for-economic-revival/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:20:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times ran a great story about how a small town in northern Japan named Inakadate has been creating art works using colored rice as a way to attract tourists and revive a struggling economy. Creating this living art work has brought the community together and draws up to 170,000 visitors to this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Morning glory green curtain in front of 3331 Arts Chiyoda</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/86805/morning-glory-green-curtain-in-front-of-3331-arts-chiyoda/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 07:20:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[3331 Arts Chiyoda is a cool art space recently created by the Chiyoda ward government. They converted an old junior high school into exhibition galleries, art studios, and creative industry offices. In addition to a beautiful remodel of the unused school building, the ward also refurbished a small park at the entrance. Katsuhiko Hibino created [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Asiajin Shanghai Meetup Held On 24th</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/85251/asiajin-shanghai-meetup-held-on-24th/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 19:36:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We will hold the first meetup in Shanghai this weekend. On July 24th (Saturday), Asiajin Shanghai meetup will be hosted to bridge startup communities of China and Japan. The event still has a few time slots to fill. We accept talk proposals about Chinese or Japanese startups such as your own experiences or trends/topics on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jsdo.it – Shared HTML5/JavaScript Playground For Geeks</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/81186/jsdo-it-%e2%80%93-shared-html5javascript-playground-for-geeks/</link>
		<comments>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/81186/jsdo-it-%e2%80%93-shared-html5javascript-playground-for-geeks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 13:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jsdo.it is a new web developers’ community on which HTML5/JavaScript/CSS programmers can play, share and collaborate with others. On the site, user can edit HTML/JavaScript/CSS on the left pane, and run them on the right pane. Your code are publicized with your designating license, and others can “fork” it and make his/her branched version. Popular [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan Sec Dealers’ Assc Postpones Banning Individual Investments On Pre-IPO Start-ups</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/80858/japan-sec-dealers%e2%80%99-assc-postpones-banning-individual-investments-on-pre-ipo-start-ups/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 16:18:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Japan Security Dealers Association proposed banning IPO of companies who have been fundraised by individual investors except the companies’ employees and founder’s family, and that news caused a sensation in this country’s tech start-up community.   The association aims at preventing fraud over unlisted shares, but the banning will make start-ups harder to go IPO if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan’s First Banana Vending Machine Debuts In Shibuya</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/80025/japan%e2%80%99s-first-banana-vending-machine-debuts-in-shibuya/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2010 00:29:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Japanese local subsidiary of international leading banana distributor Dole put the country’s first banana vending machine at an underground shopping mall in Shibuya last week, which draws people’s attention. The vending machine has a fridge and maintains stored bananas at 13 degrees Celsius (=55.4 degrees Fahrenheit) which is the best temperature to keep them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A mobile app for city residents to monitor and promote urban wildlife</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/79182/a-mobile-app-for-city-residents-to-monitor-and-promote-urban-wildlife/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:02:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Takahashi Yusuke, a database expert with a Keio PhD, and I created a poster for the URBIO conference last month introducing a mobile app for city residents to monitor and promote urban wildlife. In brief, our mobile app entitled UBITS (Urban Biodiversity Identification and Tracking System) allows school children, bird watchers, gardeners, hobbyists, and amateur naturalists [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spirits, lights, food, prayers, &amp; drinking at summer festival</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/78386/spirits-lights-food-prayers-drinking-at-summer-festival/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 00:01:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I managed to visit the Hanazono festival in May twice, once during the day and once at night. In the nighttime, the lights, food, and atmosphere are magical. I particularly like the mix of the spiritual with eating and drinking. A large public space that normally serves as a quiet place with a few people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Summer omatsuri festivals invite spirits to commercial areas</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 00:42:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Starting in May, summer omatsuri festivals are a public celebration of the local gods that exist in even the densest, most commercial parts of Tokyo. One of my favorite festivals is at Hanazono Shrine, in between Shinjuku san-chome, Kabukicho, and Shinjuku ni-chome, an area of department stores, fast fashion, a station with more than 2 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meet-up Call: Startup Dating Preliminary Edition To Be Held Next Tuesday</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/74006/meet-up-call-startup-dating-preliminary-edition-to-be-held-next-tuesday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 03:10:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Usually Asiajin covers what people are doing and have achieved in Japanese and Asian tech communities, but today I’m writing something about what I and my friends will do for accelerating tech start-up communities here in Tokyo. Takeshi Hirano[J] from TechCrunch Japan[J], Hiro Maeda from NetPrice.com and I will jointly organize a networking event titled [...]]]></description>
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