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	<title>Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon</title>
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		<title>The Current Reading List</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2012/02/03/the-current-reading-list-5/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:06:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ivan Turgenev, On the Eve (1860). One of my current reading projects is to catch up on Turgenev, whose work was enormously influential on Meiji Japan. This novel, for example, is cited repeatedly in Tayama Katai&#8217;s &#8220;Futon&#8221; (1907), a landmark in modern Japanese fiction. I can see the attraction On the Eve held for Japanese [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Counterfeiting China in 1930s Japan Pop Songs</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An article I wrote about &#8220;continental melodies,&#8221; a 1930s genre of pop songs from Japan that mimicked China and Korea, has just been published. Taking their cue as much from Tin Pan Alley Orientalism as from contemporary &#8220;Yellow Music&#8221; on the continent, these seductive tunes enjoyed massive popularity in Japan during the early years of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Occupation That Never Ends</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2012/02/01/the-occupation-that-never-ends/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:26:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The top story on tonight&#8217;s NHK 9:00 p.m. news (following a breaking report about an avalanche in Akita Prefecture) was of the latest outrage from Okinawa. The Japanese government, supposedly the representative of the will of the people, has been caught trying artificially to manufacture that will. Over the last two days, repeated acts of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The New Year Sumo Tournament</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2012/01/22/the-new-year-sumo-tournament/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 03:58:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It ended today in Tokyo with yokozuna Hakuho knocking off ozeki Baruto (who had already sewn up the title three days earlier), thereby denying the latter a perfect record for the tournament. Here&#8217;s the Day 13 match against Kotoshogiku where Baruto clinched the title: There were a few dodgy bouts toward the end, especially a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ballpoint Pens and Me</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2012/01/09/ballpoint-pens-and-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:11:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The last six or seven years, I have relied exclusively on a single make of ballpoint pen: the black Super-GP, preferably size 0.5, manufactured by Pilot. Whenever I travel back to Japan, I buy up a handful. I like their grip, their ink delivery, their basic feel. The one design flaw is the cap, which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This and That (New Year&#8217;s Edition)</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2012/01/03/this-and-that-new-years-edition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 17:05:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy New Year to you! Here&#8217;s hoping 2012 brings us all peace and joy. As the traumatic year 2011 wound down in Japan, there were any number of notable music events. Rock veterans Moonriders ended their thirty-five year run with a rooftop concert in Shinjuku, holding the Beatles&#8217; legendary &#8220;Let It Be&#8221; rooftop performance in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Blue New Year?</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2011/12/30/a-blue-new-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 13:21:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The year 2011 took a heavy toll on Chicago blues: the deaths of Hubert Sumlin, Pinetop Perkins, David &#8220;Honeyboy&#8221; Edwards and Willie &#8220;Big Eyes&#8221; Smith contributed to the sense that an era was passing rapidly. Will the art survive, and if so, in what form? Howard Reich of the Chicago Tribune published an important series [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Current Reading List</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2011/12/28/the-current-reading-list/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 15:33:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few things I&#8217;ve been reading as of late: Jim Harrison, True North (Grove Press, 2004). I&#8217;m a belated convert to Harrison&#8217;s fiction: I&#8217;ve known about him since a girlfriend in high school recommended him, but only started reading his work in the last few years. I inadvertently read Returning to Earth, the 2007 sequel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Revisiting Natsume Sōseki&#8217;s Theory of Literature</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2011/12/27/revisiting-natsume-sosekis-theory-of-literature/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 16:54:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week the University of Tokyo&#8217;s Center for Philosophy hosted a symposium on &#8220;Globalizing Natsume Sōseki&#8217;s Theory of Literature,&#8221; commemorating the publication of the English translation of Bungakuron (1907), Sōseki&#8217;s remarkable attempt to construct a fully scientific theory of &#8220;literature&#8221; complete with mathematical formulas and graphs, one that was supposed to be valid at all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eight Terrific Japanese Pop Songs from 2011 (Part Two)</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2011/12/26/eight-terrific-japanese-pop-songs-from-2011-part-two/</link>
		<comments>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2011/12/26/eight-terrific-japanese-pop-songs-from-2011-part-two/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 20:29:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The list continues: 4). The Beatniks, &#8220;A Song for 4 Beats) Takahashi Yukihiro (late of Sadistic Mika Band and Yellow Magic Orchestra) has been making some remarkably lush-sounding music lately, especially with his new unit, pupa. Here, he reunites with Suzuki Keiichi (late of Hachimitsu Pie and Moonriders) under the moniker The Beatniks. The specific [...]]]></description>
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