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		<title>Quaff RELOADED</title>
		<description><![CDATA[submit_url = "http://www.nippon-ichigo.net/quaff-reloaded/"; Since it&#8217;s Music Month here at Nippon-Ichigo, I&#8217;ll make some more music-oriented posts. Like this news that burst onto the internet a couple days ago: Quaff, the band which I posted about earlier this year, is basically getting made-over! Makito, the band&#8217;s guitarist and leader, announced via Myspace, Twitter, and Facebook that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan Blog Matsuri September 2010 Theme Is&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[submit_url = "http://www.nippon-ichigo.net/japan-blog-matsuri-september-2010/"; Hello, and welcome! Nippon-Ichigo is this year&#8217;s host for September&#8217;s Japan Blog Matsuri theme! A big thanks to last month&#8217;s host, Through Eyes from Afar, and their great theme &#8220;Japanese Nature/Culture&#8220;! Aaand September&#8217;s theme is&#8230; &#8220;Japanese Music!&#8221; That&#8217;s right! I can&#8217;t believe this hasn&#8217;t been done yet. I&#8217;m a big fan, as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jun Seba and Satoshi Kon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In February, Jun Seba passed away &#8212; accidentally, in a car accident (caused by an earthquake?). Most people didn&#8217;t know until about a month later. People like you and me knew him as Nujabes, and perhaps started listening to his music more after seeing Samurai Champloo for the first time. For everyone, it was amazingly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Studio Ghibli Could Close!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[submit_url = "http://www.nippon-ichigo.net/studio-ghibli-could-close/"; At least, that&#8217;s what I just heard. Pending the success of the American release of its next film, Arietty the Borrower , they could keep going, or they could tank. As one of my favorite animation studios, this could be a tragedy! I want to see Studio Ghibli stand firm and produce [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japanese Nature: Bugs (虫)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[submit_url = "http://www.nippon-ichigo.net/japanese-nature-bugs/"; Mushi! Bugs! They&#8217;re all over the place! And the Japanese variety are just as abundant and cool. I&#8217;ve always been a fan of bugs, but sometimes people in Japan have a different kind of fandom going on&#8230; (First things first! This is an entry for the August Japan Blog Matsuri, specifically Through [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IS Parade: Mii Parade Meets Katamari!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m probably slow in finding this, but this amusing Japanese website meshes Katamari Damacy style with Nintendo Wii&#8217;s Mii Parade aesthetic to make a Twitter toy that amuses me perhaps too much! I&#8217;ve already done this like 8 times. By the way, I&#8217;m on Twitter a lot. If you are, too, you could follow my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>$200 Worth of Desirable Things on Flutterscape</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First off, this is a Tofugu contest blog entry! Normally I wouldn&#8217;t think to do something like this, but it&#8217;s interesting! (Note: I&#8217;m posting this now, but I may add images in later. No time right now!) See, I have appreciation for both the impractical and the practical, so long as things are unique and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kobayashi Not Allowed to Put Other People&#8217;s Hot Dogs in His Mouth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[submit_url = "http://www.nippon-ichigo.net/kobayashi-hot-dogs/"; News about this is EVERYWHERE. Takeru Kobayashi, famous Japanese hot-dog-eater, wasn&#8217;t allowed to eat in this year&#8217;s Coney Island Fourth of July hot dog eating contest! According to THE NEWS, it&#8217;s because he refused to sign an exclusivity contract with Major League Eating, the major leagues of eating contests&#8230;because there&#8217;s more than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Steve from Portugal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[submit_url = "http://www.nippon-ichigo.net/steve-from-portugal/"; More silly (and still somewhat Mario-related) video posts. This is one of many vids I watch when I&#8217;m in a bad mood, because it never fails to amuse me. It may be painful for some to watch, but certain gems of communication in this video have made their way into legend with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Mario Violinist (and More Mario)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[submit_url = "http://www.nippon-ichigo.net/the-mario-violinist-and-more-mario/"; You should know, I&#8217;m on a real Mario kick right now. With the recent release of Super Mario Galaxy 2, not to mention E3 with all the other great returning classic platform heroes, I just want to play video games all day. But such desires of the id are played down and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Awesome Website: Wonderwall</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wonderwall is an interior design firm established by Masamichi Katayama. And it&#8217;s AWESOME. And what&#8217;s more, its website is also AWESOME. I do enjoy a well-presented Interior Design website, so this is excellent. What&#8217;s impressive about the site itself can be seen in motion, so go and click around. On top of all that site-ly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nippon-ichigo.net/awesome-website-wonderwall/</link>
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		<title>RODEOBOY</title>
		<description><![CDATA[submit_url = "http://www.nippon-ichigo.net/rodeoboy/"; Just what is it about this video that amuses me the most? Is it the constant gyration, or is it the phone number mostly consisting of 666&#8242;s at the end? Or is it something I&#8217;m not even conscious of as of yet? Whatever it is, well, I wanted to share.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nippon-ichigo.net/rodeoboy/</link>
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		<title>Quaff in Nashville</title>
		<description><![CDATA[submit_url = "http://www.nippon-ichigo.net/quaff-in-nashville/"; Heard of Quaff? I hadn&#8217;t, until it was announced they were coming to MTAC. Quaff: a Japanese visual kei band. Officially described thus: &#8220;Quaff is a band like none other. They bring elements of traditional Japanese music and culture into their heavy hitting music and live performances. Quaff rocks out with dual [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japanese Bar Codes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[submit_url = "http://www.nippon-ichigo.net/japanese-bar-codes/"; I actually still have a lot of entries planned/in progress for this blog. I just had a sudden decrease in free time due to the acquisition of a new job, but I do have a bit of hefty updating to do (also to the site itself). Expect a few design- and video-related [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Muscle March: Catch the Imp!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[submit_url = "http://www.nippon-ichigo.net/muscle-march-catch-the-imp/"; You know that game Muscle March that I made two posts about earlier? Well, I finally remembered to buy it. It&#8217;s just as challenging as I thought it would be, with a dash of &#8220;oh gawd&#8221; near the third parts of stages. I&#8217;m mainly making this entry because there&#8217;s a hot pink [...]]]></description>
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