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	<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><copyright>Copyright 2020 | Land of the Rising Son | All Rights Reserved</copyright><itunes:image href="https://landoftherisingson.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/LOTRS-general_podcast_icon_alt1_FINAL_1000w_web.png"/><itunes:keywords>japan,japanese,culture</itunes:keywords><itunes:summary>Join me, as we explore the intricate mind, spirit, and soul of the Japanese.</itunes:summary><itunes:subtitle>Join me, as we explore the intricate mind, spirit, and soul of the Japanese.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:category text="Society &amp; Culture"><itunes:category text="Places &amp; Travel"/></itunes:category><itunes:author>CyberSensei</itunes:author><itunes:owner><itunes:email>info@landoftherisingson.com</itunes:email><itunes:name>CyberSensei</itunes:name></itunes:owner><item>
		<title>Back To Skool</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2022 20:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[cram school]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[indoctrination center]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Truly, one was also shocked to see Japanese children going to school on Saturday of all things! </p>
<p>In the pristine mountains of Occxie-land, Saturday was clearly the first day of the coveted weekend, and going to the indoctrination center was the furtherest thing from this author’s mind.</p>
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		<title>Personal Agency</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2022 20:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Inspiration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Viktor E. Frankel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japanese Way]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Man’s Search For Meaning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mother Earth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Occidental tradition]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Certainly, the antiquated image of the Japanese is one of expressionlessness people―with cold hearts―who are robotic in nature―or so the historically narrative went. </p>
<p>Nothing could be further from the truth.</p>
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		<title>Suck It Up Buttercup</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2022 20:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Language Study]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Black ships]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Truly, most Japanese distain those who come here with the arrogance of attitude embodied within “open up Japan,” and the boisterous blob of the greedy American was no exception in failure to “open up Japan.”</p>
<p>So what exactly does “Suck It Up Buttercup” mean?</p>
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		<title>Royal Tutor – Elizabeth Vining</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2022 20:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Inspiration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Woman Power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crown Prince Akihito]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elizabeth Gray Vining]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hirohito]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iwakura Mission]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[meiji restoration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Quakers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Umeko Tsuda]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Elizabeth Vining was personally selected by Emperor Hirohito to become the private tutor to then Crown Prince Akihito from 1946 to 1950 and the profound influence upon Japan of Ms. Vining, a Quaker English instructor can not be disregarded.</p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://landoftherisingson.com/royal-tutor-elizabeth-vining/">Royal Tutor &#8211; Elizabeth Vining</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://landoftherisingson.com/en">Land Of The Rising Son</a>.</p>
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		<title>Eye For An Eye</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2022 20:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Civilization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[capital punishment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Electric chair]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Firing squad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gas chamber]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hanging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hayakawa Yoshihisa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japanese Ministry of Justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lethal injection]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>The Japanese government carried out a capital punishment event recently.</p>
<p>This particular execution was carried out to atone for a heinous crime which took place on June 8, 2008.</p>
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		<title>Love Is Fertilizer</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2022 20:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Civilization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bigotry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[discrimination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dogmatism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[greed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homophobia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jim Crow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jingoism]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>One could say the opposite of love is hate, but that would be a misnomer. </p>
<p>The top three enemies of love corrupting minds leading to mass depression, despondency, and abject hopelessness for the future should be consider: </p>
<p>Bigotry, Narcissism, and Greed </p>
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		<title>Master Music Molecule Manipulator Maestro Motsuri</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2022 20:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Understanding music molecules molecularly is reserved for those who see sound at a quantum level, bringing obscure molecules together for mini-masterpieces of sound design.</p>
<p>How does Maestro Motsuri do this?</p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://landoftherisingson.com/master-music-molecule-manipulator-maestro-motsuri/">Master Music Molecule Manipulator Maestro Motsuri</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://landoftherisingson.com/en">Land Of The Rising Son</a>.</p>
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		<title>Taste Of Meiji</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2022 20:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Boso peninsula]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chikura]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Meiji]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sushi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yamagata Prefecture]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>One of the deep charms of Japan is regardless of modernization having taken place starting with the Meiji Restoration, there are still shops in the nooks and crannies in the Land Of The Rising Son preserving the way of Old Japan. </p>
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		<title>Unfinished Masterpiece</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2022 20:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Art]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[creativity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[masterpiece]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reiwa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the Way Of Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[timing is everything]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Here is where one can put away any preconceived notions concerning the arts, and one would be best served to look upon life as art.</p>
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		<title>Care Factor Zero</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2022 20:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Care Factor Zero]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Goddess of the Sun Amaterasu]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Having acute sensitive as to what others are thinking, was, and still is a highly valuable skill to navigate the murky air of the unspoken ancient protocols of the Japanese society. </p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://landoftherisingson.com/care-factor-zero/">Care Factor Zero</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://landoftherisingson.com/en">Land Of The Rising Son</a>.</p>
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		<title>Lot In Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2022 20:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[form]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[freedom and democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Horiemon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lot in life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[order]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[process]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tate shakai]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>When querying a spectrum of younger Japanese about their dreams, desires, and aspirations, one is mostly left with blank stares, or them fumbling around trying to understand exactly; “What does this all means?”</p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://landoftherisingson.com/lot-in-life/">Lot In Life</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://landoftherisingson.com/en">Land Of The Rising Son</a>.</p>
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		<title>Friends</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2022 20:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Civilization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[crannies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[form]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[friends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hiroo Onoda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nooks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[order]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>A somewhat enigmatic society, the Japanese are often viewed by the casual observer as cold, distant, and even unfriendly. </p>
<p>Why is this so?</p>
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		<title>New Kind Of Freedom</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2022 20:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Civilization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cultural diversity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dystopia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[form]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[multiracial and multiethnic society]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Viewing the world through the lens of curated Japanese media, the Japanese now look upon the United States with its multiracial and multiethnic society, as having been infected by a nefarious mind-virus leading to the current state of dystopia in the Dis-United States of ‘Merica.</p>
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		<title>Sakoku 2.0</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2022 20:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Civilization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Commodore Perry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Covid virus]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[honne]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sakoku]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tatemae]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tokugawa Shogunate]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>The sakoku 1.0 era occurred between 1603 and 1867.</p>
<p>The peace and stability of the Tokugawa period, and the economic development it fostered, set the stage for the rapid modernization that took place after the Meiji Restoration. </p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://landoftherisingson.com/sakoku-2-0/">Sakoku 2.0</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://landoftherisingson.com/en">Land Of The Rising Son</a>.</p>
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		<title>Suffrage Pioneer – Komako Kimura</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2022 20:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Civilization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ellen Key]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japanese culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Komako Kimura]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Swedish feminist]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>This incredible Japanese woman was responsible for some of the most important yet difficult work as one of the first advocates of women rights in the early 20th century, especially coming from the samurai roots of a male dominated Japanese culture.  </p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://landoftherisingson.com/suffrage-pioneer-komako-kimura/">Suffrage Pioneer &#8211; Komako Kimura</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://landoftherisingson.com/en">Land Of The Rising Son</a>.</p>
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		<title>Wipe The Hard Drive</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2022 20:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Civilization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[control and manipulate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hard drive]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[indoctrinated mind]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pragmatic]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>The initial indoctrination from birth, combined with experiences thereafter, construct each individual’s hard drive, and contain many preconceived notions and fabricated prejudices.</p>
<p>Not proactively recognizing the existence of one’s own preconceived notions, which morph into blatant prejudice, is disingenuous and indicative of a meaningless life.</p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://landoftherisingson.com/wipe-the-hard-drive/">Wipe The Hard Drive</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://landoftherisingson.com/en">Land Of The Rising Son</a>.</p>
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