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	<title>Nippon Tico &#124; 日本ティコ &#124; Nipóntico &#187; Japan</title>
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	<description>Escapades, anecdotes and comments by a Latin guy in Asia</description>
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		<title>No Longer A Criminal</title>
		<link>http://nippon.tico.nippondaisuki.net/en/2009/10/21/no-longer-a-criminal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:01:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nippon Tico</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://nippon.tico.nippondaisuki.net/en/?p=302</guid>
		<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>
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		<title>One-Minute Beauty</title>
		<link>http://nippon.tico.nippondaisuki.net/en/2009/09/08/one-minute-beauty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 23:53:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nippon Tico</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[beautiful women]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://nippon.tico.nippondaisuki.net/en/?p=272</guid>
		<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>
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		<title>Gaijin and the Police</title>
		<link>http://nippon.tico.nippondaisuki.net/en/2009/09/06/gaijin-and-the-police/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 01:48:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nippon Tico</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Police]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Japanese police]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kōban]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://nippon.tico.nippondaisuki.net/en/?p=256</guid>
		<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>
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		<title>Sarujento Naito</title>
		<link>http://nippon.tico.nippondaisuki.net/en/2009/09/03/sarujento-naito/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 03:37:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nippon Tico</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[courtesy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Customer Service]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Police]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Security / Safety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trains]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japanese police]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kōban]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[omawarisan]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://nippon.tico.nippondaisuki.net/en/?p=225</guid>
		<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>
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		<title>Being Ultraman Is Hard</title>
		<link>http://nippon.tico.nippondaisuki.net/en/2009/08/29/being-ultraman-is-hard/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 04:57:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nippon Tico</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Children]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bath]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[battle]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[monster]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://nippon.tico.nippondaisuki.net/en/?p=131</guid>
		<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>
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		<title>Manners, Deities and Hanging Clothes</title>
		<link>http://nippon.tico.nippondaisuki.net/en/2009/08/04/manners-deities-and-hanging-clothes/</link>
		<comments>http://nippon.tico.nippondaisuki.net/en/2009/08/04/manners-deities-and-hanging-clothes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 11:53:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nippon Tico</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Shintoism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Costa Rica]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[customs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[festival]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ladder]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[matsuri]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[omikoshi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shrine]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://nippon.tico.nippondaisuki.net/en/?p=107</guid>
		<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>
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		<title>Efficiency begins at home</title>
		<link>http://nippon.tico.nippondaisuki.net/en/2009/07/27/efficiency-begins-at-home/</link>
		<comments>http://nippon.tico.nippondaisuki.net/en/2009/07/27/efficiency-begins-at-home/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 11:37:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nippon Tico</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[cleanliness]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[La Nación]]></category>
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		<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>
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		<title>An Unexpected Visitor</title>
		<link>http://nippon.tico.nippondaisuki.net/en/2009/07/22/an-unexpected-visitor/</link>
		<comments>http://nippon.tico.nippondaisuki.net/en/2009/07/22/an-unexpected-visitor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 23:47:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nippon Tico</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health Delivery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mistakes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Service Sector]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sex]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Norms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sex workers]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[デリバリーヘルス]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night was one of those nights when one cannot sleep well for reasons beyond one&#8217;s control. I was still working on a document at around 2 a.m. when my daughter woke up and asked me to sleep next to her. She must have had a nightmare because she cuddled very tightly, holding my hand [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Train &amp; The Cab Driver</title>
		<link>http://nippon.tico.nippondaisuki.net/en/2009/07/15/the-train-the-cab-driver/</link>
		<comments>http://nippon.tico.nippondaisuki.net/en/2009/07/15/the-train-the-cab-driver/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:02:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nippon Tico</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Public Transportation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taxicab]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trains]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cabby]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Costa Rica]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[principal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[taxi driver]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://nipontico.wordpress.com/?p=70</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My previous post&#8217;s story about my friend&#8217;s customer service experience made me remember an interesting experience I had last year. Due to a very severe thunderstorm, trains were stopped for a couple of hours. The inclemency of the weather was so wretched that lightning hit the very station where I was waiting out the storm. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Only in Japan? More On Customer Service</title>
		<link>http://nippon.tico.nippondaisuki.net/en/2009/07/14/only-in-japan-more-on-customer-service/</link>
		<comments>http://nippon.tico.nippondaisuki.net/en/2009/07/14/only-in-japan-more-on-customer-service/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:57:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nippon Tico</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Customer Service]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Public Transportation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[suicide]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://nipontico.wordpress.com/?p=65</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I got in touch with a friend who told me a brief and interesting story that illustrates how helpful Japanese people can be. On Saturday my friend was going home.  The train she was supposed to ride on was delayed because a man had taken his own life by jumping in front of an [...]]]></description>
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