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Blogwise features a number of blogs (currently 74!) in their Japan category. There are a lot of interesting sites to check; more than I would have predicted. I don't know how I would have ever found Alive in Kyoto without it. Sadly there are a couple double-entry'd, and some that have lapsed into unused. In this latter category, I offer the ass-hattery of Why Japan Sucks, because it used the same blogger template I do, while maintaining a nearly exact-opposite of my attitude. (via jeansnow.net) I stumbled into, and like Hunkabutta, and though it's not a blog, the vaguely-Japanese-themed Copper has one me over with it's Little Nemo in Slumberland qualities.

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