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	<description>a Ruins Explorer and SF / Fantasy Author in Japan</description>
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		<title>New Year 2010 in Shakuji Park</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 06:35:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>&#8216;To Japan With Love&#8217; Haikyo book</title>
		<link>http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/2009/11/win-a-copy-of-to-japan-with-love/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:03:54 +0000</pubDate>
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About 2 years ago a friend put me in touch with a publishing company called Things Asian Press who were looking for contributors for a new guide book to Japan. I went ahead and contacted them, offering some of my haikyo adventures from my website.]]></description>
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		<title>Izu&#8217;s Shirahama Beach</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 23:11:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Going to Izu and digging holes on the beach is now a firm tradition with me. It started two years ago, when a motley group of frisbee friends and I packed up our rental cars and went to dig and...]]></description>
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		<title>Healing Villa Spa Resort</title>
		<link>http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/2009/08/healing-villa-spa-resort/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 23:54:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week one of my students told me about a great onsen/spa/resort he frequently visits, called Healing Villa, located somewhere in Chiba, with huge outdoor pools, a great big sauna, and an overall healing and chilled-out vibe. I&#8217;m all in...]]></description>
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		<title>Asahi Beer (Factory, Ibaraki)</title>
		<link>http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/2009/03/asahi-beer-factory-ibaraki/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 02:26:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Asahi Beer is the juice that Japan runs on- it fuels the salarymen and the office ladies alike, keeping them lean, mean, and ready to work 18 hour shifts until karoushi (death by over-work) drives them into the ground. Asahi...]]></description>
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		<title>Scott and Makiko&#8217;s Wedding, Niigata</title>
		<link>http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/2008/07/scott-and-makikos-wedding-niigata/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:57:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[2 weeks ago my good friend Scott and his long-time girlfriend Makiko had a traditional Japanese wedding ceremony, in a hotel up in Niigata. I say &#8216;had a ceremony&#8217; rather than &#8216;got married&#8217; because of course- as things are done...]]></description>
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		<title>Arakawa Cyclo-Campers</title>
		<link>http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/2008/07/arakawa-ride-mark-ii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 03:59:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Arakawa river stretches up out of Tokyo Bay and into the Saitama mountains, passing straight through the bulk of the city, picking up stray cyclists looking for a place to go as it meanders above and below ground. Some...]]></description>
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		<title>Meiji Memorial Gallery, Aoyama Itchome</title>
		<link>http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/2008/06/meiji-memorial-gallery-aoyama-itchome/</link>
		<comments>http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/2008/06/meiji-memorial-gallery-aoyama-itchome/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 02:37:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Meiji Gallery in Aoyama Itchome holds 80 works of art depicting scenes from the life of Emperor Meiji (1852-1912), half painted in the Japanese style and half in a Western style, each about 3 meters square and really quite...]]></description>
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		<title>Fukutoshin Shibuya Station</title>
		<link>http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/2008/06/fukutoshin-shibuya-station/</link>
		<comments>http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/2008/06/fukutoshin-shibuya-station/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2008 03:27:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MJG</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The new subway station on the F-line in Shibuya is remarkably large, spacious, and modern. It reminds me of the subway system in Washington D.C. for all its brushed concrete blocks and cavernous oval underground spaces. Even now a week...]]></description>
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		<title>Stopped by the Police</title>
		<link>http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/2008/06/stopped-by-the-police/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2008 02:39:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MJG</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night I was stopped and questioned by the police. I was riding home on a friend&#8217;s tiny BMX-like bike at around 2am, just coming to the hill on Meiji Dori before my house, when I heard something from behind...]]></description>
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