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	<title>Chase the Gaijin &#187; bicycle</title>
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		<title>Master Japanese in a mere 37,960,000 days. Lesson 7: Japanese people do everything on bicycles. EVERYTHING.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 12:26:45 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Me me me!]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just spent part of today biking from one city (Osaka) to a new one (Kyoto) since that&#8217;s where I&#8217;ll be for the time being. How about we learn bicycle words: 自転車 (じてんしゃ, bicycle) and 乗る (のる, to ride). Example 1: あの自転車に乗ってた女子は矢で俺の心を射た。 あのじてんしゃにのってたじょしはやでおれのこころをいた。 That woman who was riding on a bicycle shot me in the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I just spent part of today biking from one city (Osaka) to a new one (Kyoto) since that&#8217;s where I&#8217;ll be for the time being. How about we learn bicycle words: 自転車 (じてんしゃ, bicycle) and 乗る (のる, to ride). </p>
<p>Example 1:<br />
あの自転車に乗ってた女子は矢で俺の心を射た。<br />
あのじてんしゃにのってたじょしはやでおれのこころをいた。<br />
That woman who was riding on a bicycle shot me in the heart with an arrow.</p>
<p>Example 2:<br />
電車に乗りながらお菓子を食べたらぶっ殺す。<br />
でんしゃにのりながらおかしをたべたらぶっころす。<br />
If you eat snacks while riding on the train I&#8217;ll friggin&#8217; kill you.</p>
<p>I think you know what do; if you don&#8217;t then &#8230; you don&#8217;t.</p>
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		<title>Even Google bows to Japanese tradition. Is no one safe?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 15:10:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chase The Gaijin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Video]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bicycle]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some streets are too small so Google decided to &#8216;mount&#8216; high school girls and capture the smaller streets.]]></description>
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<p>Some streets are too small so Google decided to &#8216;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_(computing)">mount</a>&#8216; high school girls and capture the smaller streets.</p>
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		<title>Story Time. I ride a bicycle into a web of lies and deceit. Who survives and who surmises?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 13:23:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chase The Gaijin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Me me me!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The places I've gone]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I regret to inform you that there are things that happened here that I&#8217;ve not told you about. There&#8217;s no real good reason for me not to tell you these stories so I might as well do it. So back in early 2006 I moved from the middle of two somewheres to one of those [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I regret to inform you that there are things that happened here that I&#8217;ve not told you about. There&#8217;s no real good reason for me not to tell you these stories so I might as well do it.</p>
<p>So back in early 2006 I moved from the middle of two somewheres to one of those somewheres, Osaka. A month or so before I moved I managed to find a mostly working bike in the trash. After a short stop at the bike shop to fix the tire it was back on the road. Once I moved I wanted to move the bicycle as well, but this was much more difficult than it might seem to someone not in the area; there&#8217;s a small mountain in between the two locations and, if you don&#8217;t look closely, it looks like the only way to cross the mountain is on the highway. Many people do ride bikes here, but you&#8217;ll be hard pressed to see someone riding a bicycle on the highway.</p>
<p>After some searching, I found a road to the South that would take me over the mountain to where I wanted to go. On one of my days off I left early in the morning on my bike and took it over that mountain. It did take quite a while, but it wasn&#8217;t very difficult after I got to the top. I make my way to the new apartment and go on with my life.</p>
<p>The police here don&#8217;t have much to do so a lot of their time revolves around bicycles &#8211; preventing theft, tracking down stolen bicycles, impounding bikes parked illegally. Everyone gets stopped at some point for one reason of another and it usually doesn&#8217;t take longer than 30 seconds before you&#8217;re on your way; you show them your <a href="http://www.kanajibou.jp/img/faq/img04.gif">registration</a> and they immediately know that the bicycle you&#8217;re riding is your own. So a week or so later after taking my bike over the mountain, I&#8217;m biking around the area when I&#8217;m stopped by the police. They ask me about the bike and I tell them that I found it in the trash, fixed it, and started riding it. They are very interested in this and we go back to the police station to talk about it.</p>
<p>They give me a printed map and ask me where I found the bicycle and I show them. Things move very slowly and I get to spend some time chatting with the young policeman that is learning English in his free time. After a while I find out that the bicycle I was riding was stolen in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto">Kyoto</a> and ditched in <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&#038;source=s_q&#038;hl=en&#038;geocode=&#038;q=%E7%94%9F%E9%A7%92&#038;sll=34.693738,135.502165&#038;sspn=0.283411,0.484772&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;ll=34.693208,135.703519&#038;spn=0.001107,0.001894&#038;z=19">Ikoma</a>, where I found it. They found out where the owner lives, gave him a call, and told me to wait for him to come to the station after he&#8217;s finished working. There really isn&#8217;t much for me to do besides chat with the police officers, so I do. I&#8217;m constantly taken aback at how they act and how they&#8217;re treating me even though I&#8217;ve essentially committed a &#8220;bad&#8221; crime. They don&#8217;t have a <a href="http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20080603a3.html">perfect</a> <a href="http://ishingen.wordpress.com/2008/06/03/falling-conviction-rates-in-japan/">record</a>, but their attitude is definitely better than some places.</p>
<p>Long story long, the owner comes and doesn&#8217;t press charges. He gets his bike back (repaired by me) and I get a story.</p>
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