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	<description>a Ruins Explorer and SF / Fantasy Author in Japan</description>
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		<title>Fuchu US Airbase Heyday</title>
		<link>http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/2012/01/fuchu-us-airbase-heyday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 01:59:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since publishing my 2008 explore and photos of the abandoned US Air Force base in Fuchu, Japan, it&#8217;s been one of the most popular pages on this site. See it here. It has attracted hundreds of veteran airmen from the...]]></description>
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		<title>The ruins of Monkey Island</title>
		<link>http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/2010/09/the-ruins-of-monkey-island/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 03:16:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MJG</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No, not the game. This particular Monkey Island (&#8216;Sarushima&#8217; in Japanese) is located off the coast of Yokosuka near the mouth of Tokyo Bay, and during World War II served as an artillery battery and first point of defense of...]]></description>
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		<title>Ruins of the USAF base Camp Drake in Japan</title>
		<link>http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/2010/08/relics-of-camp-drake-in-saitama-japan/</link>
		<comments>http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/2010/08/relics-of-camp-drake-in-saitama-japan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 02:20:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MJG</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Camp Drake was a joint US Army/Air Force base in Saitama, active until the 1970`s. It contained a hospital which handled troops coming out of Vietnam and also a communications array. Now about half of it remains, an overgrown jungle...]]></description>
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		<title>Remnants of the US Air Force Base in Tachikawa, Japan</title>
		<link>http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/2010/05/remnants-of-the-us-air-force-base-in-tachikawa-japan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 10:12:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MJG</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Military Installations]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The abandoned US Air Force (USAF) base in Tachikawa is a bramble-choked memento from the early days of Japanese/American war and peace. It was annexed by the USA shortly after World War II, in co-operation with the still-active nearby Japan...]]></description>
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		<title>Hiroshima A-bomb dome</title>
		<link>http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/2010/04/hiroshima-a-bomb-dome/</link>
		<comments>http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/2010/04/hiroshima-a-bomb-dome/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 00:37:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MJG</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Haikyo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hiroshima]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Military Installations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nuclear]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Statues / Monuments]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[At 8:15 on August 6 1945 the first nuclear bomb in the history of warfare detonated over Hiroshima, obliterating the city within a 1.5 mile radius and killing outright some 80,000 people, with around another 70,000 dying of radiation and...]]></description>
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		<title>Ruin of a Japanese WWII Shipyard</title>
		<link>http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/2010/03/ruin-of-a-japanese-wwii-shipyard/</link>
		<comments>http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/2010/03/ruin-of-a-japanese-wwii-shipyard/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:48:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MJG</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Kawaminami shipyard was opened in 1936 and went bankrupt in 1955. It had four huge bays and two large factory buildings. Through the war years it served as both a munitions factory, a drydock for construction of cargo ships,...]]></description>
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		<title>Ruin of a Japanese &#8216;kaiten&#8217; suicide-boat base</title>
		<link>http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/2010/02/ruin-of-a-japanese-kaiten-suicide-boat-base/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 07:38:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MJG</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Towards the end of World War 2 the Japanese military created and employed the `kaiten`, a manned suicide torpedo designed to blow up American ships with great accuracy. At that point in the War Japan had suffered severe losses, was...]]></description>
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		<title>Exploring an Abandoned Japanese Castle-Shrine</title>
		<link>http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/2009/11/exploring-an-abandoned-castle-of-japans-warrior-monks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/2009/11/exploring-an-abandoned-castle-of-japans-warrior-monks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:13:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MJG</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Churches / Shrines]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Japan is riddled with shrines, both in cities and out in the countryside, huddled in the basin of wintry valleys or perched precariously on top of mountains- often at points of raw natural beauty and power. From time to time...]]></description>
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		<title>Relics of America&#8217;s youth: Fort Jefferson in the Dry Tortugas</title>
		<link>http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/2009/10/relics-of-americas-youth-fort-jefferson-in-the-dry-tortugas/</link>
		<comments>http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/2009/10/relics-of-americas-youth-fort-jefferson-in-the-dry-tortugas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 22:02:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MJG</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Military Installations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[USA]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Way back in 1825, with the revolutionary war 49 years past and the purchase of Florida from Spain only 5 years gone, America still very much feared attack by a foreign power. Inspectors were sent to the Dry Tortugas in...]]></description>
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		<title>Relics of WW2- the Japanese station that ordered Pearl Harbour</title>
		<link>http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/2009/04/kemigawa-transmission-station-haikyo-tochigi/</link>
		<comments>http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/2009/04/kemigawa-transmission-station-haikyo-tochigi/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 03:38:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MJG</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On December 2nd 1941, just 6 days before the Japanese opened hostilities in the Pacific War against the Allies by bombing Pearl Harbour, a coded signal went out from the Kemigawa Transmission Station in Tochigi to all the Empire of...]]></description>
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