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		<title>Better than high-heel sneakers or cloven hooves,  Japanese Jika-tabi</title>
		<link>http://news.3yen.com/2009-02-12/better-than-high-heel-sneakers-or-cloven-hooves-japanese-jika-tabi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 10:58:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taro</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a pair of of high-heel Jika-tabi  that look like cloven hooves thanks to a regular New York street photo of Sarah Jessica Parker running errands.


Jika-tabi  &#8212;often referred to as &#8216;Ninja Shoes&#8217;&#8212; the type worn by the ninja of long ago, and are still used today by Japanese workers who need more agility, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japanese neckties go to the mat</title>
		<link>http://news.3yen.com/2008-08-31/japanese-neckties-go-to-the-mat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2008 10:02:40 +0000</pubDate>
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&#8211;Taking your Japanese necktie to the mat?&#8211;
There&#8217;s nothing more quintessentially Japanese than tatami&#8211;the traditional type of flooring mats made of woven soft rush straw packed with rice straw.
Not so traditional is this tatami mat necktie that my drinking buddy, Mulboyne, found, which will be for sale starting tomorrow for 5,800 yen or about US$53. Mulboyne [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Soy sauce chocolate from Kit Kat Japan</title>
		<link>http://news.3yen.com/2008-03-02/soy-sauce-chocolate-from-kit-kat-japan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Mar 2008 00:38:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taro</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Besides being the Official Chocolate of Japanese Exam Hell, Kit Kat Japan is always working overtime to come up weird new varities for the hypertrendy but fickle Japanese market.
 
Nestle KitKat &#8220;soy sauce flavor&#8221;
trendy &#8211; Nikkei Weekly Feb. 28, 2008 [machine translation]&#8230;going on limited sale in Tokyo from the middle of March, &#8220;Nestle KitKat soy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;THE NATURE OF MONKEY WAS IRREPRESSIBLE!&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://news.3yen.com/2008-02-21/the-nature-of-monkey-was-irrepressible-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 03:48:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taro</dc:creator>
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Update:	
It&#8217;s that time of the year again!
AFP News.  Feb. 20. 2008&#8212;Zoo staff spread a net to catch a fake zebra, which made a break for freedum from its cage, as it strolls in the zoo park during the annual exercise for runaway animals at Tokyo&#8217;s Ueno Zoo on February 20, 2008. Some 150 zoo [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japanese horse mask man frolics and cooks &#8220;magic&#8221; mushrooms</title>
		<link>http://news.3yen.com/2008-02-08/japanese-horse-mask-man-frolicks-and-cooks-magic-mushrooms/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2008 13:32:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taro</dc:creator>
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This Japaneseque video is what YouTube was made for!
Marvel in wonder at this frolicking Japanese man wearing a horse mask and a slingshot mankini as he brews up a batch of Amanita muscaria  aka Sacred Soma magic mushrooms. &#8211;2008/Jan/28
UPDATE!
It has taken more than a week for Boing Boing to discover my Horsehead Freak is, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drink Kit Kat&#174;</title>
		<link>http://news.3yen.com/2008-01-19/drink-kit-kat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2008 07:40:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taro</dc:creator>
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Would you drink a Kit Kat from soda machine?
Well, in Japan there is a mega-abundance of drink machines&#8212;even dozens along uppermost trail leading to top of Mount Fuji. However, candy or snack machines are quite rare. So they fill round cardboard containers  with Kit Kat bars and stock them in drink machines if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hello Kitty eyeballs</title>
		<link>http://news.3yen.com/2008-01-01/hello-kitty-eyeballs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2008 05:33:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taro</dc:creator>
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All the rage everywhere on the Internet for the past day, has been Creepy &#8216;Hello Kitty&#8217; Contact Lenses  (Digg).
While many bloggers are freaking out, others are questioning whether this a just a Photoshop manipulation of the image. 

Whether this particular blog-posted photo is real is a valid question&#8212;I did a quick search of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan 2008, a real Mickey Mouse Year</title>
		<link>http://news.3yen.com/2007-12-31/japan-2008-a-real-mickey-mouse-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2007 11:26:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taro</dc:creator>
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Welcome to 2008, the year of the Rodent/ Rat/Mickey Mouse!
In the 12-year cycle of the Orient [Wikikipedia], the Year of the Rat is thought as a year for go-getters with charm. In other words, it&#8217;s gonna be a real Mickey Mouse Year.
And enjoy starting off this  funky Mickey Mouse kind of a year with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Naked&#8217; shoes for Japan</title>
		<link>http://news.3yen.com/2007-12-31/naked-shoes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Dec 2007 16:20:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taro</dc:creator>
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&#8216;Naked&#8217; feel is in works for shoes
December 30, 2007 / ChicagoTribune.com&#8212;
&#8230;James Stoxen, a chiropractic physician at Team Doctors Treatment and Training Center in Chicago&#8230;. is working with Converse Footwear Co. in Japan to develop a shoe that allows the feet to flex. The company plans to launch it in Japan next spring. We may never [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sixty-one percent of teachers in Japan are mentally ill&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://news.3yen.com/2007-12-29/sixty-one-percent-of-teachers-in-japan-are-mentally-ill/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Dec 2007 03:02:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taro</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sixty-one percent of teachers in Japan are mentally ill and the rest are just batshit crazy&#8230;
61% of teachers taking sick leave in 2006 suffered mental illness
JapanToday.com &#8211; Saturday, December 29, 2007 at 05:00 EST
TOKYO &#8212; The education ministry said Friday that 7,655 teachers at public elementary, and junior and senior high schools took sick leave [...]]]></description>
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