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	<title>Michael John Grist &#187; Tochigi</title>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 01:55:55 +0000</pubDate>
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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>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jul 2011 03:31:13 +0000</pubDate>
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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>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 03:38:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MJG</dc:creator>
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		<title>The ruined conference center built into a cliff- Yamamoto</title>
		<link>http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/2009/05/yamamoto-grand-center-hotel-haikyo-tochigi/</link>
		<comments>http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/2009/05/yamamoto-grand-center-hotel-haikyo-tochigi/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 09:54:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MJG</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Yamamoto Grand Center is a gracefully aging architectural foible, tucked away in a quiet corner of Tochigi prefecture on a die-cut volcanic crag. Warm spring winds blow confetti cherry blossoms through its many gaping windows, fluttering with old receipts...]]></description>
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		<title>The Pearl love hotel, overgrown with brambles</title>
		<link>http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/2009/05/pearl-love-hotel-haikyo-tochigi/</link>
		<comments>http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/2009/05/pearl-love-hotel-haikyo-tochigi/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2009 14:37:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MJG</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sex Industry]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Pearl Love Hotel Haikyo in Tochigi is a wreck in camouflage, deeply nested underneath a blanket of scraggy brown vines. Rooms lie in embers, grown through with ferns; once-bohemian beds, chaise longues and chandeliers lie scrapped, dropped, and despoiled...]]></description>
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		<title>Collect your free drugs from this forgotten hospital</title>
		<link>http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/2009/04/toyoshin-convalescent-centre-haikyo-tochigi/</link>
		<comments>http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/2009/04/toyoshin-convalescent-centre-haikyo-tochigi/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 01:32:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MJG</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Toyoshin Convalescent Centre is an oddity already sunk from the consciousness of the neighbouring area, something the local kids don&#8217;t even notice as they walk past it to and from school. No fences or barricades of any kind guard...]]></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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		<category><![CDATA[Military Installations]]></category>
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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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