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		<title>Tokyo&#8217;s Police Patrol vs the alien menace of Gaijin and Furries!</title>
		<link>http://news.3yen.com/2009-10-16/tokyos-police-patrol-vs-the-alien-menace-of-gaijin-and-furries/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:40:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taro</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tokyo&#8217;s Shibuya Center-Gai Police Patrol vs evil Gaijin/foreigners


Dangerous Furry vs Shibuya Center-Gai Police Patrol

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		<title>Miniskirt Militia vs Miniskirt Police</title>
		<link>http://news.3yen.com/2009-10-02/miniskirt-militia-vs-miniskirt-police/</link>
		<comments>http://news.3yen.com/2009-10-02/miniskirt-militia-vs-miniskirt-police/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 09:14:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taro</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is China&#8217;s Miniskirt Militia ready to challenge Japanese Miniskirt Police?
Who will volunteer to fight?
Check out the Miniskirt Militia &#8211;slideshow.

Embiggen to 600&#215;371.

Picture This: China’s Miniskirted Militia
wired.com / DangerRoom 2009/Oct/1
&#8230;.China’s official Xinhua news agency has a photo gallery from today’s big military parade&#8230;. which marks the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China&#8230;.
&#8230; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The US President is my girlfriend</title>
		<link>http://news.3yen.com/2009-09-13/11239/</link>
		<comments>http://news.3yen.com/2009-09-13/11239/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 08:20:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taro</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Speaking of politics and aliens, Japan&#8217;s most esteemed alien, Rob Pongi, has send me the following cautionary tale from Nippon: &#8220;My Girlfriend is The President&#8221;&#8230;.



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		<title>The rest-of-the-story of First Lady of Japan and the Venusians</title>
		<link>http://news.3yen.com/2009-09-13/the-rest-of-the-story-of-first-lady-of-japan-and-the-venusians/</link>
		<comments>http://news.3yen.com/2009-09-13/the-rest-of-the-story-of-first-lady-of-japan-and-the-venusians/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 07:37:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taro</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I reported on the soon-to-be First Lady of Japan pandering to  the alien vote…the Venusians. The wife of premier-in-waiting Yukio Hatoyama published a book last year in which she said that, “….While my body was asleep, my soul rode on a triangular-shaped UFO and went to Venus.”
Here is rest-of-the-story&#8230;

&#8230;Enlarge to 1108&#215;1669 pixels [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is SILVER WEEK?</title>
		<link>http://news.3yen.com/2009-09-13/what-is-silver-week/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 15:42:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taro</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Japan&#8217;s  new &#8216;Silver Week&#8217; is another just another corporate excuse for a layoff and unpaid week since more than 40% of Japan&#8217;s workers are on part-time and subcontracts (and therefore all holidays are unpaid),  meh.
First &#8216;Silver Week&#8217; fall holidays a bonanza for hard-pressed tourism industry
Mainichi &#8212; September 12, 2009
Due to revisions to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan&#8217;s new froggy foreign minister</title>
		<link>http://news.3yen.com/2009-09-06/froggy-foreign-minister/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 15:41:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taro</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Change.
 First, it was the revelation that Miyuki Hatoyama, the wife of the Japan&#8217;s new premier-in-waiting Yukio Hatoyama, claims to have visited Venus. (3Yen.com/2009-09-03).
Now, the soon-to-be Japanese foreign minister,  Katsuya Okada (with amazingly bloodshot, dope-smoking, eyes ) has revealed his special affinity for frogs.
  
Okada to become Japan&#8217;s new foreign minister.
Sept 4. 2009 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan election winner goes for the alien vote&#8230;the Venusians</title>
		<link>http://news.3yen.com/2009-09-03/japan-election-winner-goes-the-alien-vote-the-venusians/</link>
		<comments>http://news.3yen.com/2009-09-03/japan-election-winner-goes-the-alien-vote-the-venusians/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 06:32:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taro</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
 &#8220;&#8230;.While my body was asleep, I think my soul rode on a triangular-shaped UFO and went to Venus,&#8221; Miyuki Hatoyama, the wife of premier-in-waiting Yukio Hatoyama, wrote in a book published last year&#8230;&#8221;
Via Japan Election &#8212; Yahoo! News Photos &#8212; Sept 3, 2009.		
In other reports from Reuters, the soon-to-be First Lady of Japan was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japanese word-of-the-day &#8212; &#8216;Kintaro-Ame&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://news.3yen.com/2009-08-31/japanese-word-of-the-day-kintaro-ame/</link>
		<comments>http://news.3yen.com/2009-08-31/japanese-word-of-the-day-kintaro-ame/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 06:41:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taro</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The political word-of-the-day is  &#8216;Kintaro-Ame&#8217; , a candy-cane Japanese confection than no matter how it is cut always looks the same.


 Kintaro-Ame is an apt metaphor for yesterday&#8217;s landslide win of Japan&#8217;s  doubtfully-Democratic Party of Japan over the not-soLiberal not-soDemocratic not-so-funParty&#8217;s de-facto dictatorship of the past 65 years.

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		<title>Japanese &#8216;Smile Dance&#8217; campaigning in Shibuya, Tokyo</title>
		<link>http://news.3yen.com/2009-08-27/japanese-smile-dance-campaigning-in-shibuya-tokyo/</link>
		<comments>http://news.3yen.com/2009-08-27/japanese-smile-dance-campaigning-in-shibuya-tokyo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 04:24:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taro</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m off to hunt down and take some video of the &#8220;Smile Dance&#8221; campaigning of Mac Akasaka in Shibuya. He is running under the one-man &#8220;Smile Party&#8221; ticket for a seat in the Upper House of Japan, and this ought to be a show.*


In the meantime, check out today&#8217;s Reuters/Yahoo video of the &#8216;Smile Dance&#8217; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Last minute wiring doesn&#8217;t delay launching Japan&#8217;s newest destroyer</title>
		<link>http://news.3yen.com/2009-08-22/last-minute-wiring-doesnt-delay-launching-japans-newest-destroyer/</link>
		<comments>http://news.3yen.com/2009-08-22/last-minute-wiring-doesnt-delay-launching-japans-newest-destroyer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 15:36:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taro</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A little bit of trouble with messy wiring hasn&#8217;t kept the Japanese navy from breaking its schedule for launching their newest super destroyer today.

	daylife.com &#8212; YOKOHAMA, JAPAN &#8211; AUGUST 21: Japan Martime Self-Defense Force&apos;s destroyer Ise is launched at IHI Marine United Yokohama factory on August 21, 2009 in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan. Ise is a [...]]]></description>
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