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	<description>the personal website of Chris Pearce</description>
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		<title>Universal Text Lookup Tool Release</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	I finally posted a utility I wrote called the Universal Text Lookup Tool.  It was designed to solve the problem of looking up text on your computer, especially when it may not be in your browser.  Instead of the usual flow of things when you want to look up a term you may [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.karai.com/archives/2005/07/11/universal-text-lookup-tool-release/</link>
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		<title>Rearranging the Landscape of the Gods</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Rearranging the Landscape of the Gods : The Politics of a Pilgrimage Site in Japan, 1573-1912
By Sarah Thal
University of Chicago Press, 2005, 344 pages
	Thalâ€™s book is a study of the Kotohira Shrine in Shikoku, which was also known as the Konpira Temple before the Meiji Restoration.  She seeks to explain how it and the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.karai.com/archives/2005/05/30/rearranging-the-landscape-of-the-gods/</link>
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		<title>Frankfurt &#8220;On Bullshit&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	On Bullshit
By Harry G. Frankfurt
Princeton University Press, 2005, 80 pages
	The buzz surrounding this book is just a little over the top.  It seems like everyone is talking about the book, and it has even been featured on 60 Minutes and The Daily Show.  I also saw it discussed in a Financial Times column. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.karai.com/archives/2005/05/27/frankfurt-on-bullshit/</link>
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		<title>Digital resources available from the Japanese government</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	The National Diet Library offers two interesting databases:
	The Digital Library from the Meiji Era, available in Japanese only.  This database offers images of books published in the Meiji era and held by the NDL.  As of July 2004, 54,349 volumes, almost all whose copyrights are confirmed to have expired, excluding children&#8217;s books and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.karai.com/archives/2005/05/23/digital-resources-available-from-the-japanese-government/</link>
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		<title>The sociology of the Japanese military and its enlistment campaigns</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	On May 12, 2005, Richard J. Samuels, noted Japan scholar from MIT, came to PSU for a lecture presented by PSUâ€™s Center for Japanese Studies on Japanâ€™s security policy.
	Dr. Samuels was an excellent lecturer with a welcome sense of humor.  Unfortunately for me, there was little new material presented.  These general lectures donâ€™t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.karai.com/archives/2005/05/17/the-sociology-of-the-japanese-military-and-its-enlistment-campaigns/</link>
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		<title>English Cheese - The Horror Of Frankenstein</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	AMC showed The Horror Of Frankenstein (1970) the other day.  It was a terrible movie by most measures, but also rather charming because of its political conscience and occasionally witty dialogue.  Hippy influence is strong in this film as we see by Victor&#8217;s severed arm experiment at college that flashes a peace sign.
	By [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.karai.com/archives/2005/05/15/english-cheese-the-horror-of-frankenstein/</link>
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		<title>Japanâ€™s tourism problem</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	In Dogs and Demons, Alex Kerr identifies tourism as one of the great failures of modern Japan.  He mentions that it was by no accident either, but a â€œdeliberate national policyâ€ that Japan chose to follow.  Instead of becoming a service-based economy, national policy was that Japan would shun all industries that didnâ€™t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.karai.com/archives/2005/04/10/japans-tourism-problem/</link>
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		<title>Japanâ€™s forest problem</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Many of the problems in Japan that Alex Kerr mentions in Dogs and Demons have come up in the news this week.
	Kerr mentions how the Forest Agency engaged in a program to clear-cut natural Japanese forests and replace them with mostly cedar trees, which was thought to be much more profitable to industry.  It [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.karai.com/archives/2005/04/10/japans-forest-problem/</link>
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		<title>Dogs and Demons, or Japan: The Concrete Nation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Dogs and Demons: Tales from the Dark Side of Modern Japan
By Alex Kerr
Hill and Wang, 2001, 432 pages.
	Dogs and Demons more accurately describes the Japan I know and lived in better than any book Iâ€™ve read.  The Japan I know is a very ugly place, with concrete rivers and beaches, ugly dilapidated buildings, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.karai.com/archives/2005/04/03/dogs-and-demons-or-japan-the-concrete-nation/</link>
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		<title>The coming oil shock</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	The Financial Times for Friday, April 1 2005 reports in the article Bank warns of â€˜1970sâ€™ oil prices that Goldman Sachs has forecast oil prices reaching $105 a barrel.  They believe that the world has entered into a period of â€œsuper spikesâ€ because of increased demand for oil and a lack of excess supply.
	With [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.karai.com/archives/2005/04/01/the-coming-oil-shock/</link>
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