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	<description>The shenanigans of a Gaigin webmaster living in Japan.</description>
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		<title>Running an Internet Business In Japan</title>
		<link>http://blog.urgentclick.com/2010/02/06/running-an-internet-business-in-japan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 12:35:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lately I got fed up with transferring money from the UK to Japan since it is kind of awkward having to use the telephone to do so and explaining every time what the money is for.
So my plan now is to create a PayPal account that is linked to a Japanese bank and verified via [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japanese Hill Walk</title>
		<link>http://blog.urgentclick.com/2007/12/20/japanese-hill-walk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:07:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a video of me walking up a Japanese Hill from the ground level by a river right up to the top to get a view over Kanazawa city.

It&#8217;s for a weight loss site that I run, that is why I am pushing myself so hard to get to the top as quickly as I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fireworks Display</title>
		<link>http://blog.urgentclick.com/2007/11/26/japanese-fireworks-display/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2007 04:51:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are some photos from a Japanese Fireworks Display that I attended in August. It was based in the city of Kanazawa and was free to watch. There was something like 5,000 fireworks that were paid for by local companies and the city council.
They also provide free buses to the event. It&#8217;s very noisy, bright [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan Blog to Move</title>
		<link>http://blog.urgentclick.com/2007/02/07/japan-blog-to-move/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Feb 2007 11:04:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know many people loved my blog posts about Japan but I no longer have time to post about it in a diary style. But, I am going to build another site about my area featuring the Geisha district and later another site may be built about the Samurai district.
I have registered the domain name [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Software to Learn Japanese</title>
		<link>http://blog.urgentclick.com/2006/09/18/software-to-learn-japanese/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Sep 2006 11:22:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am planning to write some software that helps you learn the Japanese language. It will be based on a flash-card approach where you choose a topic and view flash cards that show sentences or words in English and you have to remember how to say them in Japanese.
At first you may not know anything [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jet Skiing Beach Party</title>
		<link>http://blog.urgentclick.com/2006/08/21/jet-skiing-beach-party/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Aug 2006 09:10:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every year in August a group of restaurant workers meet up at the beach to play in the water and have some grilled food and drink. We can drive on the beach with 4-wheel drive vehicles so it&#8217;s easy to set up and unload right next to the sea shore.

Most people got there very early [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Festival of Fire pt2</title>
		<link>http://blog.urgentclick.com/2006/08/07/festival-of-fire-pt1-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Aug 2006 14:51:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pictures from the nightime festivities&#8230;







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		<title>Festival of Fire pt1</title>
		<link>http://blog.urgentclick.com/2006/07/21/festival-of-fire-pt1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jul 2006 10:21:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another crazy day in the life of the people of Noto Peninusla. A long time ago the villagers suffered badly from some kind of plague which they blamed on evil spirits. So ever since, they do this annual ceremony to scare the evil spirits away by violently trying to destroy a small portable shrine with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2006 Notojima Road Race</title>
		<link>http://blog.urgentclick.com/2006/07/02/2006-notojima-road-race/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jul 2006 07:30:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is an annual event in the seaside resort of Notojima on the Noto Peninsula. There is a 10km and a half marathon held on the same day. I entered the 10km race for fun. My friend Bruce came along and tried to enter but had to settle for pretenting to be my personal trainer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japanese Iris Garden in うたつやま</title>
		<link>http://blog.urgentclick.com/2006/06/24/japanese-iris-garden-in-%e3%81%86%e3%81%9f%e3%81%a4%e3%82%84%e3%81%be/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jun 2006 10:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[These are pictures of a garden up in the hills that is free for the public to visit and view. At this time of year, the Iris is in full bloom and the place is very pretty to see.
Here is a view of the pond area, you can see a fish below where I added [...]]]></description>
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