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	<title>Nippon Tico &#124; 日本ティコ &#124; Nipóntico</title>
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		<title>The Value of Peace</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cambodia is a country that is far from healing the wounds of its recent and violent past. People still leave in great fear that horrors similar to those of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge might one day befall them. Even younger generations born after the end of the genocidal regime carry this fear in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nippon.tico.nippondaisuki.net/en/2010/03/04/value-of-peace/</link>
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		<title>No Longer A Criminal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple of weeks ago I had to make a photocopy of my passport. When I turned to the page containing my Japanese visa I realized that it had expired the day before. I had mistakenly assumed that it expired a couple of months later. I went to the Japanese Immigration Bureau’s website to find [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nippon.tico.nippondaisuki.net/en/2009/10/21/no-longer-a-criminal/</link>
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		<title>One-Minute Beauty</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago I accidentally found the Beautiful Women Clock (美人時計： bijin-tokei). The site does not indicate what its objective is or why it was created. The only thing one knows is that every minute a different woman gives you the time. The site belongs to a Public Relations firm. I sent them an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nippon.tico.nippondaisuki.net/en/2009/09/08/one-minute-beauty/</link>
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		<title>Gaijin and the Police</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Japanese cops are usually very nice and the National Police has been, for a great many years, one of the most respected and trusted institutions in this country. Despite this, among some segments of the gaijin community there is great animosity and disdain towards cops. There are quite a few urban legends about how police [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nippon.tico.nippondaisuki.net/en/2009/09/06/gaijin-and-the-police/</link>
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		<title>Sarujento Naito</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple of weeks ago some friends met in Roppongi (六本木 ) to bid farewell to another friend that was leaving Japan for good. After dinner, the women in the group wanted to go dancing. But it turned out to be their bad luck night for they were in the company of all the wrong [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nippon.tico.nippondaisuki.net/en/2009/09/03/sarujento-naito/</link>
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		<title>Being Ultraman Is Hard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My daughter is very fond of Ultraman, especially the eight brothers (Ultraman, Ultra Seven, Jack, Gaia, Mebius, Ace, Dyna, Tiga). She has taught me that, despite their powers, it is not easy to be an Ultraman. When we play with her Ultra Brothers dolls, there is a specific routine. There appear some monsters hell-bent on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nippon.tico.nippondaisuki.net/en/2009/08/29/being-ultraman-is-hard/</link>
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		<title>Batsu</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My daughter&#8217;s pet goldfish got sick a few days ago. Even though my wife did all she could to make sure the fish got its health back, we prepared our kid for the possibility her pet might die, which eventually came to pass. A few days before the fish passed away, my daughter had visited [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nippon.tico.nippondaisuki.net/en/2009/08/23/batsu/</link>
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		<title>A Bridge &amp; An Earthquake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The day before yesterday, as I watched the 7 p.m. news broadcast, I felt indignation, rather than amazement, when I saw that the damage caused by the August 11 earthquake along a stretch of the Tōmei Expressway (東名高速道路) had already been repaired. It goes without saying that I was not indignant at the repair, which [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nippon.tico.nippondaisuki.net/en/2009/08/18/a-bridge-an-earthquake/</link>
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		<title>Manners, Deities and Hanging Clothes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The day before yesterday, my daughter and her classmates went around visiting homes near their kindergarden. They were delivering their own hand-made thank you cards to those houses that a week earlier had given them water, fruits or money during a local festival dedicated to the deities enshrined in Hakusan Jinja (白山神社：White Mountain Shrine), one [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nippon.tico.nippondaisuki.net/en/2009/08/04/manners-deities-and-hanging-clothes/</link>
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		<title>Efficiency begins at home</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been informed by a friend that La Nación, Costa Rica&#8217;s second most important newspaper, has put a link to a Japanese video on how to get a kid ready for school in five minutes. Within that time the child gets up, eats breakfast, washes his face, brushes his teeth, gets dressed and has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nippon.tico.nippondaisuki.net/en/2009/07/27/efficiency-begins-at-home/</link>
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