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Nov182011
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Friday, November 18, 2011 at 8:48PM
The Atago-hama neighborhood of Fukuoka City
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- 1000 Words
- Boys Have Dingdongs
- Per Capita GDP by Prefecture
- Japanese Literature Survey 2
- Japanese Literature Survey 1
- Chodo Kono Takasa
- Blasphemy
- How to say February in Japanese
- Soroban
- Shh!! I'm recording!!
- Childhood Poverty in Japan
- Inhaling Water
- Curse of the Fire Horse
- Ishiganto
- My Darling
- Deciphering the Lanterns of Kyoto
- Losing myself in Translation
- Officer Friendly
- Once Upon a Time in Edo
- A month by any other name
- Ippe Kanasando
- Bad Christian Art
- Little Boys' Dreams
- Kurosaki Shotengai
- The G-Word (Survey)
- The Highs and Lows of Women's Expectations
- Jóie de Vivre in Hong Kong
- The Second Noble Truth
- FOB & A-OK
- Una Cama Vacía
- My fingers come to a rest
- Hoops
- My Oasis
- Queerly Engendered
- 100km Walk Around Tokyo
- No Show Gatsu
- Fufu Bessei
- Your Five Cents Worth
- Mochitsuki
- A Christmas Story for 2015
- The Corner Liquor Store
- Autumn in Gokusho, Hakata
- Thoughts and Prayers
- Things I Love About Japan #6
- Kamado Jinja
- Listener Discretion Advised
- Ah, Progress!
- Chapman Kindergarten
- Local Warming
- Then again . . .
- Portlandia - The Count
- How many more mass shootings will it take for the US to act?
- Voice of America
- Average Annual Salary
- Four Burners
- Where it all goes
- Child Soldiers
- The Joy of Writing
- The Kindy Bus
- Boz
- Hikawa Maru
- Cobwebs, Again
- Vacation pay, then and now
- A 100-Yen Distraction
- Beauty, Looking Back
- Japan, the Beautiful, and Concrete
- Selling Snake Oil in Japan
- Beatitudes of the Republican Jesus
- Last summer at the beach
- Speak of the Devil and She is . . .
- A Handy Guide to Tipping in Japan
- Wrong, Very Wrong
- The Possibilities are . . .
- Two Kinds
- God Bless the Godless
- Aspiring Sincerely
- Japan's Wild, Wild West
- Dubious Science
- Fresh Answers to Old Questions about an even Older Profession
- The Future is . . .
- Pitter-Patter
- Bushy Brows
- Yakuin-henge
- Räuchermann
- The 1% in Japan
- Nippon Ichi
- A monkey on the back, a gorilla on the hood
- On DJs
- Up the wall
- Deep-fried
- Made in England
- Once Upon a Time in NW Portland
- No doubt about it, God is . . .
- Nakagin Capsule Tower
- Some Advice on Father's Day
- My Car . . . My Gawd!
- Too Clean and Far Too Common
- The MET's Online Photo Collection
- Early to Bed
- Shinsekai
- Things I love about Japan #5
- Children's Day, 2014
- The Sewol Tragedy
- Five-yenned and Ten-yenned
- Small Change Adds Up
- Ebisu Giveth
- Sansha Mairi
- MakuJob
- New Year's Revolutions
- Why does Japanese use "Chinese" Characters?
- How Much is a Year's Worth?
- What was God Thinking?
- The Secret Behind Japanese Holidays
- Spoilt for Choice
- Niinamesai - Celebration of First Taste
- Fieldmarshal Crowe
- Student Loans, Japanese Style
- No more weighty tomes
- All Work and No Play
- Unemployment and Welfare in Japan
- Torikai Shrine
- Sistema de Transporte Colectivo
- Worm's Eye View of Tokyo
- Election Primer
- Pinching Yennies - 2
- Pinching Yennies
- Getting to the top of Mt. Fuji
- Typhoon No. 4
- And the Winner is . . .
- Buyer Beware
- The Month of No Water, Indeed
- Jimmy
- And speaking of gutters
- Head in the Gutter
- Ôshio
- This is Lebanon
- Vamos a la Playa!
- Memorial Day Musings
- Within 2.54cm of My Life
- Meron Pan
- Boei Dai Blues
- Head of the Class
- Icchô Rondon
- Language of Love and Hate
- Guns Over the People (G.O.P.)
- Profiles That Discourage
- Itchy Fingers
- Bombs Away!
- Murders in Taiwan linked to Sino-Japan Territorial Dispute
- Slip, slip, slipping
- $18 Baby Aspirin
- Rokuban, a Novel
- Curious Crowe
- Long Lasting
- What Took You So Long?
- Things I love about Japan #4
- Fukuoka Boomtown
- Thanks, China!
- Park Life
- Many Thanks, Amy!
- What W. Worry?
- Mornings Yet Disturbed
- Divorce, Japanese-style
- Thanks for Nothing
- Row!
- Big Balls
- Sleep Talking
- Rush and Hillary
- Canker Sores and Wedding Bells
- Write in the T'ick of T'ings
- Can't Buy Me Love
- Black Ships
- B-Sides (2012)
- Walkabout - Saga
- Aloha!
- マイ・ファミリー
- The Nation at Their Feet
- We there yet?
- Kagami Mochi
- Shimenawa
- Kadomatsu
- Sorry, but . . .
- On Royalties and Bath Plugs
- My friend, the call girl
- It was a Man's Man's World
- Those Bloody Japanese
- Good for Nothing
- The NRA's Gifts to America
- Chopsticks and Sushi
- Delicate Melonpanna
- Ah, FUK
- "Yuru Kyara" Grand Prix
- What manners!
- Hey, toots!
- Kyoto in the Rain #2
- Kyoto in the Rain
- Goddamn you, Baikin Man!
- The End
- Those were the days
- Autumn in Kyoto
- Right to Ignorance Upheld
- Florida goes to Obama
- Dueling Prophets
- Jeepers, Creepers
- Vote Rigging in Alabama
- Little Tokyo
- Unplugged
- Sky High
- Ten Tobé
- Not quite lavish, but it'll do.
- Back to School
- Rice Harvest
- Stew for Dinner
- Otemon After Hours
- Getting to the Bottom of Panty Thievery
- Where'd e'rybody go?
- Another
- Pulling Teeth
- THINGS I DON'T LIKE ABOUT JAPAN #2
- Walkabout - Tôkyô
- Can't get no
- La Palette
- Kokubu Kikôjikura
- Numero Uno
- Things I Love about Japan #3
- Second Amendment Lite
- Mike Brodsky
- Irreconcilable Differences
- Your tax dollars at leisure
- Revenge of Baikin Man
- The Pilgrimage
- Stupid Wars
- Debt and Taxes 2
- Rain, Rain . . .
- Band of Brothers
- The Month of No Water
- Summer of Loathing
- 1 Bangai Cafe & Shisha
- Call the cops!
- No.6
- Miyajidake Shrine
- "Roll Cake" Day
- Walkabout - Shitamachi
- Yamaguchi-go
- Spectacular Specs
- Things I love about Japan #2
- Jumping Dogeza
- Unzarissu
- Authentic, no Lie
- Touring Meiji Era Tokyo
- Higher Learning
- The Reality of Self-Publishing
- Falling from Trees
- And things I don't like about Japan #1
- The Loneliness of a . . .
- Walkabout - Chiyoda
- All the News #1
- In Japan too long #1
- Things I love about Japan #1
- Walkabout - Tokyo
- IKEA Blues
- Onna
- Kiwis
- Easy-peasy
- Moving Forward
- Fukuoka Birth Clinic
- Heartfelt Thanks
- Niji no Matsubara
- Oops!
- Denki Yoho
- Sakura, Sakura
- Insanity
- My Wife
- Walkabout - Gokusho
- Making Ends Meet
- Early Bloomer
- Sah-sah
- Walkabout - Yame
- Nihonbashi
- American Exceptionalism
- Repowering Japan
- Operation Tomodachi
- God's Orphans
- Vonnegut, translated
- Camellias
- Ume
- Aki Misaki
- 懐かしい、これ
- Sex Ed.
- Huddled Masses
- If possible . . .
- Debt and Taxes
- Winter Wonderland
- A Woman's Nails
- Waste not, want not
- Al Hysteria
- Bemused
- The "Problem" with Japan
- The Incredibly Shrinking Nation
- Dazaifu in Winter 2
- Dazaifu in Winter
- Low Water Mark
- Snow in Iizuka
- Snow!
- Kindling
- Let it snow
- These Charming Men
- Mieko Kawakami
- Pandora's Box
- Putting the Pieces Together
- The Deadly Four
- All in the Family
- 一斗二升五合
- Tôka Ebisu Festival
- Mind your back
- Almost Famous
- Of Rice and Men
- Makin' Up Don' Have to Be Hard to Do
- Sayonara, Re-entry Permits!
- Early Childhood Education in Japan
- Yusentei
- Giving Thanks
- Ducks
- A Slice
- F.O.B.
- Kitsuki
- Introducing HKT48
- Toru Howaito Mokka
- Armistice Day
- Gusuku
- To the Knackers!
- En
- Finance for the Homeless Man
- Cape Zampa
- Miss Universe Japan
- Out of the Mouth of Babes
- Harazuru
- Tatami
- Beachcombing
- Cover Up
- Call the cops!
- Coral Beaches
- Hifumi, the Little Diner That Could
- Where the Boys Are
- Boys Be Ambitious!
- Gettin' There
- Goddamn you, Sedaris!
- Questions for the Mayor
- Not much music, not much life
- Those who can - Yôyôkaku
- Daimyô-henge
- Amami - What's in a name?
- Shisa: Holding the Fort
- The Balls Giveth, the Balls Taketh Away
- Hitting the Roof
- Sign o' the Times
- Ukiha
- No Nukes!
- Cost of Living
- Knock 'em Dead
- Fukuoka Castle
- Walkabout
- Itchy Feet
- Bon - 4
- Gokoku Jinja
- Mea Culpa
- Yuki Onna
- Bon - 3
- Bon - 2
- O-Bon 1
- Hot Spot
- Kitsune no Yome-iri
- Return to Sender
- Ouch!
- Lights out, Fukuoka
- Light . . .
- Nagasaki
- Goal!
- Beacon 2
- Beacon
- Ramen
- Boshita Festival
- Miyaji Daké
- Akasaka Mon
- Little Big Country!
- Sorry, 'bout that
- Ôita's Moé Girls
- The Hunt 2
- Nodaté
- Rubber Town
- I love you, Fukushima
- HKT48
- Karatsu
- The Hunt
- Karatsu Bank 2
- Karatsu Bank
- Shita Amé
- Fuyuko Matsui
- Arale-chan
- Kiri
- Kôsa
- Only in Japan
- I've Been Shot!
- Azaleas
- Shanghaied
- Cobwebs
- Tsuyazaki
- Death and Taxes
- Fukushima
- Tatamet
- Never Say Never
- Sleepless in Tokyo
- Don't Tweet This
- Light Out, Tokyo
- Deflation Tied to Palin
- Tenjin Tremblin'
- Way of the Bow
- Oh, Grandpa!
- Yoko
- Kingo Tatsuno
- Hita
- Hakata Station
- Clever Kanji
- Chidori Ashi
- Iizuka
- Walkabout - Jigyô
- Bachata en Fukuoka
- Gaman
- Walkabout - Hakozaki
- Trimming Nails - 1
- jóie de vivre
- Art of Living in Fukuoka
- Hakata Magemono
- Sunday's Walk 1
- Throw me a feckin' bone, will ye!
- 鹿島本館 Kashima Honkan
- Dude looks like a lady
- Puss in Boots
- The Beach in September
- Pyonkich
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