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		<title>Hot models invade Tokyo for Japan Fashion Week</title>
		<link>http://news.3yen.com/2010-03-17/hot-models-invade-tokyo-for-the-10th-japan-fashion-week/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 07:58:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taro</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gee, what can I say but that it is time for the preliminaries of the 10th Japan Fashion Week here in Tokyo.
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		<title>Oops! Japan forgot &#8216;International Womens&#8217; Day&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://news.3yen.com/2010-03-12/japan-forgot-international-womens-day/</link>
		<comments>http://news.3yen.com/2010-03-12/japan-forgot-international-womens-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:31:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taro</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For some reason, it seems the Japan has forgotten International Women&#8217;s Day&#8212;InternationalWomensday.com.
Never fear! Watch the video of naked male sushi being  served  Polish women&#8230;.

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		<title>&#8216;Natto&#8217; &#8211;Japan&#8217;s homegrown WMD</title>
		<link>http://news.3yen.com/2010-03-08/natto-japans-homegrown-wmd/</link>
		<comments>http://news.3yen.com/2010-03-08/natto-japans-homegrown-wmd/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 04:33:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taro</dc:creator>
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Japanese folks love to torture their guests withnatto&#8211;fermented soy beans that are better described as,  &#8220;...kinda  smell like baked beans if they were baked in the filthy heat of Satan&#8217;s asshole.&#8221;

Japan defends honor in Mito&#8217;s annual &#8216;natto&#8217; speed-eating contest
MITO, Ibaraki Prefecture &#8211; KyodoPress March 7, 2010&#8211; The annual &#8220;natto&#8221; fermented soybean speed-eating contest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ichiban #1</title>
		<link>http://news.3yen.com/2010-03-04/ichiban-1/</link>
		<comments>http://news.3yen.com/2010-03-04/ichiban-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taro</dc:creator>
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To be Captain Obvious, &#8220;Ichiban&#8221; means &#8216;number one&#8217; in Japanese and this obscenely obscure proto-surf rock band, Nick and the Jaguars, thrashed out an &#8220;Ichiban #1&#8243; in 1959.
Listen/download  the tune&#8217;s MP3 (2.3MB), Nick and the Jaguars &#8211; &#8220;Ichiban #1&#8243;  from WFMU.org. 

Alternatively, you can turn on WFMU&#8217;s Ichiban Rock &#8216;n Soul webstream: &#8220;Less [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Ghost in the Girl Shell</title>
		<link>http://news.3yen.com/2010-03-03/the-ghost-in-the-girl-shell/</link>
		<comments>http://news.3yen.com/2010-03-03/the-ghost-in-the-girl-shell/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 01:46:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taro</dc:creator>
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VANISHING FIGURE SERIES by Kenji Etori
In his profile, Mr. Etori says that since 2000 he has exhibited contemporary art such as figures and sculptures as well as clothing and ornaments, and that he is a lecturer at Osaka Seikei University in the Information Design Course of Arts Department.

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		<title>Ninja, ninja, ninja!</title>
		<link>http://news.3yen.com/2010-02-22/ninja-ninja-ninja/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 07:18:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taro</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A F P reports that yesterday 70 &#8220;ninja&#8221; from Iga City, Mie Prefecture attacked a Tokyo amusement park to promote their annual ninja festival, the &#8220;Iga Ueno Ninja Festa 2010.&#8221;

The Ninja Festa () is held annually in Spring (end of March &#8211; beginning of May).
Wikipedia.org/wiki/Iga_Ueno_Ninja_Festa 

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		<title>Watch the fat freakshow of an American Maid Cafe!</title>
		<link>http://news.3yen.com/2010-02-16/watch-the-fat-freakshow-of-an-american-maid-cafe/</link>
		<comments>http://news.3yen.com/2010-02-16/watch-the-fat-freakshow-of-an-american-maid-cafe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:33:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taro</dc:creator>
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Fair use &#8211; Parody


Pleeeeeease don&#8217;t believe a single word of the jezebel.comi&#8217;s analysis/whitewash of Maid Cafes and enjoy the horror of a Western maid cafe!  
 Don&#8217;t miss the freakazoids&#8217; precious  comments about how, &#8220;taking this kind of fantasy play seriously are those outside of the culture, and that the boundaries set within [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japanese shop-to-you-drop 1970</title>
		<link>http://news.3yen.com/2010-02-14/japanese-shop-to-you-drop-1970/</link>
		<comments>http://news.3yen.com/2010-02-14/japanese-shop-to-you-drop-1970/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 02:40:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taro</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[+]
Japanese babes shopping in Holland in 1970 by Ed van der Elsken (Wiki).

More via edvanderelsken.nl
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		<title>Beauty and elegance of Japanese women</title>
		<link>http://news.3yen.com/2010-02-12/beauty-and-elegance-of-japanese-women/</link>
		<comments>http://news.3yen.com/2010-02-12/beauty-and-elegance-of-japanese-women/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 08:39:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taro</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Enjoy more of the beauty and elegance of Japanese women at ameblo.jp/tominagayasuhiro.

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		<title>Full of Beans!</title>
		<link>http://news.3yen.com/2010-02-03/full-of-beans/</link>
		<comments>http://news.3yen.com/2010-02-03/full-of-beans/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:18:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taro</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Japan today, sumo is Full of Beans!

Daylife.com reports that the foreign, sumo wrestler &#8220;Baruto&#8221; from Estonia was throwing packs of beans during a bean-scattering, &#8220;Setsubun,&#8221; ceremony at Shinshoji Temple in Narita, Japan today February 3.  Setsubun is one day before the start of spring according to the Japanese lunar calendar.  The Setsubun [...]]]></description>
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