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	<description>Enjoying the sights, sounds and smells of first-time parenthood. Progress on the organic vegetable garden and other ramblings of a gaijin in Japan's least populous prefecture.</description>
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		<title>Sports Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not to be confused with Sports Day, a public holiday in October, schools have been hosting their sports day throughout September. The districts are already divided into communities with a leader to manage the many differing day to day aspects. These communities within the catchment area form the teams and people of all ages compete, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.adekun.com/blog/sports-day</link>
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		<title>Ethnically homogeneous</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It has been just four days since Taro Aso and his new cabinet have taken up the chalice. The new PM welcomed the USS George Washington, whilst the masses of protesters were welcomed by riot police. The newly appointed Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport has already overstepped the mark and has stepped down.
In addition [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.adekun.com/blog/ethnically-homogeneous</link>
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		<title>Rice harvest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Juggling people&#8217;s work commitments and the weather, meant it took a public holiday to harvest the rice. It was Autumnal Equinox Day and very overcast too. Shigeki-san had already harvested one of the smaller fields. This left the two large fields, one of which had a smaller adjoining counterpart. With a late morning start and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.adekun.com/blog/rice-harvest</link>
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		<title>Taro Aso to be Japan&#8217;s latest PM</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As expected the LDP have chosen ultra right wing/conservative/nationalist Taro Aso to lead them. He achieved two/thirds of the vote. Famous for his &#8220;one nation, one civilization, one language, one culture and one race.&#8221; speech and love of Manga, he is certain to become the next Prime Minister.
Why does the ruling party get to choose [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.adekun.com/blog/taro-aso-to-be-japans-latest-pm</link>
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		<title>Tree of Happiness Award</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thank you to Top Veg for bestowing upon me the Tree of Happiness Award. It is my turn to choose six things that make me happy. As the entries have been a bit light on the garden that will be my focus:

Spotting the first seedlings to emerge
Finishing a harvest
Eating and giving the produce
Observing, experimenting
Changing things [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.adekun.com/blog/tree-of-happiness-award</link>
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		<title>Tainted Rice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently stories have been surfacing over tainted rice that has ended up in the food chain. Unsurprisingly, this did not happen by accident, but in the name of profit (as is the custom). The rice is said to have been imported from China and Vietnam amongst others. Contaminated with pesticides and a toxic mould, the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.adekun.com/blog/tainted-rice</link>
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		<title>How to grow garlic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Garlic is an undemanding herb to grow. Sticking a few cloves in the ground and waiting should suffice. In spite of this, the title of this entry is perhaps equally a question. I wanted to jot down a few thoughts for reference; to clarify or simplify. My objective is to be self sufficient in garlic. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.adekun.com/garden/herbs/how-to-grow-garlic</link>
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		<title>Mount Daisen: Beech Forest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Emboldened by last week&#8217;s adventure, I set off with the intention of following the popular route to Misen Peak (弥山). From the other end of Motodani dam, the Gyojadani course (行者谷コース) immediately begins to rise. At first, there&#8217;s a little weaving through forest. Thereafter, the path climbs up a ridge. Meeting another path, it continues [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.adekun.com/japan/tottori/mount-daisen-beech-forest</link>
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		<title>Mischief</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We have been enjoying the better weather. Kento has had a couple of trips further abroad. One of the less beneficial trips was to the waterfoul park; you have to pay to see them and I didn&#8217;t have more than a few coins! Instead, together we explored on the bike until one of us fell [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.adekun.com/blog/mischief</link>
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		<title>Mount Daisen: Utopia and Sankohou</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, I was fortunate to go walking with experienced Tsutomu around Mount Daisen (大山). He celebrated his sixtieth birthday this year and has recently retired.
We followed the usual course past Daisen-ji (a Buddhist temple) and Ōgamiyama Jinja (a Shinto shrine) to the Motodani dam. From there we took a steep, overgrown route toward Sankohou (三鈷峰). [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.adekun.com/japan/tottori/mount-daisen-utopia-and-sankohou</link>
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		<title>Cold, wet and miserable</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The above could be a fair reflection of the weather for the second half of August. To be dispassionate, temperatures were in the mid twenties, there were no typhoons, and perhaps it is me being miserable.
I managed to get sunburnt in the September sun as the weather quickly changed. We have had week of warmer [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.adekun.com/blog/cold-wet-and-miserabl</link>
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		<title>Masanobu Fukuoka</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Masanobu Fukuoka passed away last month aged 95. He was the developer of the Fukuoka Method, known also as Do Nothing Farming.
Trained as a microbiologist in his native Japan, he began his career as a soil scientist specializing in plant pathology. At age 25, he began to doubt the wisdom of modern agricultural science. He [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.adekun.com/garden/masanobu-fukuoka</link>
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