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	<title>Michael John Grist &#187; Haikyo</title>
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		<title>Fuchu US Airbase Heyday</title>
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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>Nara Dreamland Heyday</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 02:23:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nara Dreamland, Japan, was Asia&#8217;s first Disneyland clone- opened in 1961 and continuing operation until as recently as 2006. Over that 45-year span millions of people were entranced by its mimicked delights- the Matterhorn mountain, the fairytale castle, Main Street,...]]></description>
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		<title>After the conflagration: a ruined Tokyo dormitory</title>
		<link>http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/2011/10/after-the-conflagration-a-tokyo-dormitory/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 01:51:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MJG</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2007 the Seika Dormitory in central Tokyo went up in flames. The roof was burnt away and flames roared up the building&#8217;s old stairways and licked at rooms full of possessions, melting and burning some unrecognizably, leaving others coated...]]></description>
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		<title>Murakashi Derelict Industrial Ruin</title>
		<link>http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/2011/07/murakashi-derelict-industrial-ruin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 08:47:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MJG</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mines / Factories]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ruins of Murakashi mine trail up the verdant Tochigi mountainside like a Studio Ghibli dreamscape, scattered about with the rusted-stiff robot arms of cranes that guard its approach like frozen heroes in Medusa&#8217;s cave. Zoom out and the blaring...]]></description>
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		<title>Exploring Japan&#8217;s deserted Mount Rushmore</title>
		<link>http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/2011/07/inside-japans-mount-rushmore/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 09:46:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MJG</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Disneyland has the grand pink Sleeping Beauty castle. The wizarding world of Harry Potter has Hogwarts. Japan&#8217;s abandoned Western Village theme park has a 1/3rd scale replica of Mount Rushmore. Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt, Lincoln- Japan Outside Mount Rushmore As grand-central-structures-that-pull-their-thematic-landscapes-together...]]></description>
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		<title>History of the Western Village Amusement Park, Japan</title>
		<link>http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/2011/07/history-of-the-western-village-amusement-park-japan/</link>
		<comments>http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/2011/07/history-of-the-western-village-amusement-park-japan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 01:55:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MJG</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Western Village is a quantum pocket of the Old West Disneyfied and transplanted wholesale from the American collective unconscious, replete with a $29 million replica Mount Rushmore, Western saloon, ghost house, jail, post office, shooting gallery, actual fake Rio Grande,...]]></description>
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		<title>Cowboy haunted-house and Mexicoland, Japan</title>
		<link>http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/2011/07/cowboy-haunted-house-and-mexicoland-japan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jul 2011 03:31:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MJG</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Japan&#8217;s haikyo theme park Western Village (closed in 2007) takes its cowboy conceit in some unexpected directions; most interestingly of all the Wild West ghost house. Within its silent black-velveted walls we can find all manner of creepified Western stalwarts;...]]></description>
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		<title>Japan&#8217;s abandoned animatronic John Wayne</title>
		<link>http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/2011/06/japans-abandoned-animatronic-john-wayne/</link>
		<comments>http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/2011/06/japans-abandoned-animatronic-john-wayne/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 02:43:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MJG</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Japan&#8217;s abandoned wild west theme park Western Village (closed in 2007) is filled to the tip of its ten-gallon hat with animatronic cowboy dolls. A Stagecoach-era John Wayne with cyborg heart exposed stands by the park entrance, silent now that...]]></description>
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		<title>Western Village: Japan&#8217;s Abandoned Cowboy Theme Park</title>
		<link>http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/2011/06/japans-abandoned-wild-west-town/</link>
		<comments>http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/2011/06/japans-abandoned-wild-west-town/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 03:38:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MJG</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Western Village is a quantum pocket of the Old West Disneyfied and transplanted wholesale from the American collective unconscious, replete with a $29 million replica Mount Rushmore, Western saloon, ghost house, jail, post office, shooting gallery, actual fake Rio Grande,...]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>21</slash:comments>
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		<title>Jan Jornmark Sweden&#8217;s premier urbexer</title>
		<link>http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/2011/06/jan-jornmark-swedens-premier-urbexer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/2011/06/jan-jornmark-swedens-premier-urbexer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 00:54:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MJG</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A while back Sweden&#8217;s premier urban explorer Jan Jornmark got in contact with me about doing some haikyo together in Japan. He was on tour for his third book (on the heels of two bestsellers of mostly Swedish ruin- you...]]></description>
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