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	<description>Homepage and Blog of Stefano Padovani</description>
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		<title>Happy new year of the Water Dragon!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:58:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The lunar new year begins today and marks the start of the Year of the Dragon, according to the Chinese zodiac. To be precise, this is the year of the water dragon, which happens every 60 years, since the Chinese elements are 5:  metal, water, wood, fire and earth and the signs of the zodiac ]]></description>
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		<title>Oh Noes!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 09:45:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[”Fly to Japan! Project” has (sadly) not been approved! Japan is fighting with a tight budget for 2012 and the predictions for tourists afflux to the country are anyway already getting better, so the proposal to grant some 10.000 free flights to selected requestants was not approved as a governmental draft budget. Oh well, it ]]></description>
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		<title>Juyoh Hotel  ・  ホテル寿陽</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 11:39:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Juyoh Hotel (ホテル寿陽) is an unexpensive hostel-hotel in Kiyokawa (an area in the north-eastern part of Tokyo) which has been my &#8220;home&#8221; for a couple of weeks during my last trip to the capital of Japan. Located quite far from the major tourist spots, with the sole exception of Asakusa being 30 minutes on foot ]]></description>
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		<title>All Good Things&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 06:23:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;come to an end. So sang Nelly Furtado a few years back, and I was listening to that song while reading Un altro giro di giostra, the last book written by Tiziano Terzani which also talks about endings. More precisely, about the end of Terzani&#8217;s life, his search for a cure and the way he made peace ]]></description>
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		<title>The End is the Beginning is the End</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 07:55:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Awakened by the room cleaners around one o&#8217;clock, I started 2012 with a shower followed by an earthquake. Then I told myself&#8230; now this is Japan! People working normally even on the very first day of the new year, waking up all the gaijin of the hotel and getting some random insults back, or cold ]]></description>
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		<title>The Search for the Otaku Grail</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 10:58:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Going to Akiba, also known as 秋葉原 (Akihabara) or the &#8220;electric town&#8221;, is always a weird experience. Once the only place in Tokyo where you could really find some piece of electronics, it is now maybe more an otaku experience than a sort of electronics market. I mean, you can really find anything there, from chinese ]]></description>
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		<title>Sunshine on the Sunshine</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 12:50:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the things I do basically each time I come to Tokyo is pay a visit to what has been for a long time the highest building in the capital: the Sunshine City. First city within a city of the whole Japan, was finished in 1978 and stands about 270 meters to the top, ]]></description>
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		<title>The Language Barrier</title>
		<link>http://www.paddosan.com/2011/12/26/the-language-barrier/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-language-barrier</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 08:56:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve mostly not been using japanese in the last two years, and as a result I was quite worried about going back to the land of the rising sun&#8230; especially for my reading skills, considering it&#8217;s nearly impossible to remember 漢字 (kanji) without actually using them. Well, turns out I was half wrong (could have ]]></description>
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		<title>The Japanese Cold</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 00:59:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One thing I pretty much forgot about Japan, was how damn cold this country can be. No, I&#8217;m not talking about people, but about the cold it gets in a place without centralized heating and/or proper insulation. Each room in this hotel (and, well, this actually goes for most buildings anyway) has a small air ]]></description>
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		<title>Raising suns and falling eyelids</title>
		<link>http://www.paddosan.com/2011/12/24/raising-suns-and-falling-eyelids/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=raising-suns-and-falling-eyelids</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 09:26:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello from Tokyo folks! Now that I&#8217;m writing it&#8217;s about 6 p.m. and I&#8217;m having serious issues with my eyelids, which just won&#8217;t stop falling&#8230; didn&#8217;t really catch any sleep on the plane, so the flight has been quite tiresome. Back in Milan (Malpensa) e almost lost the flight due to unforeseen circumnstances: there was ]]></description>
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