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    <title>Far Eastern Economic Review: Will Japan Ever Grow Up?</title>
    <dc:date>2009-07-24T08:52:56+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Urbanscale</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Again via Gen. And again, this rings so, so true to me.
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    <title>Foreign Policy: The Inept Captain of a Sinking Ship, by Tobias Harris</title>
    <dc:date>2009-07-10T07:29:26+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Urbanscale</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The smug, tone-deaf arrogance (and serene self-assurance) of Aso remind me greatly of my old bosses at Dentsu, who clearly suffered from Dunning-Kruger. Via gen.
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<dc:subject>japan knowyourenemy</dc:subject>
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    <title>BBC News: Life-like walking female robot</title>
    <dc:date>2009-03-16T20:01:08+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7946780.stm</link>
    <dc:creator>Urbanscale</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[WARNING SERIOUS UNCANNY VALLEY GROSSNESS. No prize for guessing where it comes from. (A friendly reminder to the design staff: DON'T DATE ROBOTS!)
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    <title>Pink Tentacle: Tetrapod beaches of Japan</title>
    <dc:date>2008-12-19T08:07:15+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Urbanscale</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Via John Robinson, for Matt Jones: "You can't not make infrastructure." As disgusted by their reality as I am - they're a massive subsidy of the Japanese concrete industry, not an effective erosion-control measure -  these are *stunning* pictures of tetrapods, by a variety of folks. Not to be missed.
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<dc:subject>infrastructure japan no yes</dc:subject>
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    <title>[TIMES OF THE SIGNS]</title>
    <dc:date>2008-08-02T15:24:01+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://timesofthesigns.org/</link>
    <dc:creator>Urbanscale</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A largely visual, coffee-table book on the hypermediated urban visual environment, understandably if unfortunately Nippocentric. The texts were too poorly designed to read comfortably, at least standing in Kiasma's gift shop...
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    <title>NTT DoCoMo: Trouble at the Summit</title>
    <dc:date>2008-01-25T15:06:04+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Urbanscale</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Analyst: "I don’t think the Skype kind of application is going to become mainstream.” And the total world market for computers is five.
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<dc:subject>mobile japan</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.adobe.com/jp/designcenter/thinktank/noboundaries/">
    <title>Me on &quot;Everyware,&quot; nihongo de.</title>
    <dc:date>2008-01-11T15:31:27+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.adobe.com/jp/designcenter/thinktank/noboundaries/</link>
    <dc:creator>Urbanscale</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The Japanese translation of a piece I wrote for Adobe a year or two back.
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    <title>PCs Being Pushed Aside in Japan</title>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSSP10422420070718">
    <title>Reuters: Japan's lonely hearts turn to dolls for sex, company</title>
    <dc:date>2007-07-18T20:49:17+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Urbanscale</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Not sure a few asocial dudes make a trend. And it's far from a Japan-only thing - haven't they ever heard of Real Dolls? Nevertheless, watch out if these go animatronic. Called that a long time ago.
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    <title>Momus on shibuya-kei and so much more</title>
    <dc:date>2007-03-22T12:34:23+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://imomus.com/jpop.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Urbanscale</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["And so the Japanese keep themselves very well informed. When they travel to the west, they know where to go. They consume culture in a way we, its progenitors and original makers, are too complacent to."
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    <title>KDDI au: NEW COLLECTION 2007 SPRING</title>
    <dc:date>2007-01-20T15:31:31+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.au.kddi.com/collection/07spring/</link>
    <dc:creator>Urbanscale</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[If "Individuality" makes you shine, I wonder what effect individuality would have.
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    <title>nobilog2: Everyware講演のビデオが公開</title>
    <dc:date>2006-09-28T12:00:10+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://nobi.cocolog-nifty.com/nobilog2/2006/09/everyware_910e.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Urbanscale</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[*Incredibly* kind and flattering commentary on my July talk at Keio by a influential Japanese tech writer. (He compares me - favorably yet! - to Messrs. Jobs and Lessig. I am humbled.)
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    <title>Conspicuous Consumption Shapes New Tokyo Skyline</title>
    <dc:date>2006-03-21T03:17:03+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Urbanscale</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The article I was interviewed for, and do not appear in
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    <title>Yahoo Japan boss may leave Roppongi Hills to shed negative image - MSN-Mainichi Daily News</title>
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    <dc:creator>Urbanscale</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[<nelsonmuntz>
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