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		<title>Valentines Coupon</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:30:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Discount coupon Here is the special announcement promised earlier. I really appreciate all the new followers adding JapanesePhotos to their circles here on Google+, so in time for St Valentines Day here is my box of chocolates for you. It&#8217;s a 10% discount for any purchase on the JapanesePhotos.Asia PhotoShelter account (minimum USD$20 minimum purchase). [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Photo of the week  6 Feb 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 07:43:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the rush to catch up with post processing the Naked Man festival photos, I didn&#8217;t have the chance to remember to do this POTW&#8230; well, I just plain forgot. Here is one more hurrah from the weekend, a township team showing respect to the shrine after delivering their bamboo pole and other offerings.]]></description>
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		<title>Naked Man Festival video</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:22:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Naked Man Festival video was just uploaded to YouTube. Warning, the sound track might be a little loud&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Naked Man Festival</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:58:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first photos from Nagoya&#8217;s Naked Man Festival. More will be available at my agent&#8217;s website and my own portfolio. This event was held as snow from the previous two days was still fresh and melting, so of course the participants need to be rolling drunk to do this, which means some fall over and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Snow in Nagoya</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:58:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s rare that Nagoya gets snow, and this winter is one of those &#8216;once in seven year&#8217; events. These photos will soon be available on Asia Photo Connection.]]></description>
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		<title>Photo of the week: Naked Man Festival</title>
		<link>http://japanesephotos.asia/blog/2012/01/photo-of-the-week-naked-man-festival/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:14:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This POTW is of the Kounomiya Naked Man Festival, an annual event held just after the Lunar New Year, a calendar that Japan used to follow until the post war years. It&#8217;s not often I post an image from my agents website, but it&#8217;s there, and more information on the history is on this blog.]]></description>
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		<title>Portrait walk</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 13:27:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I did what I&#8217;m calling a &#8220;portrait walk&#8221;, where I met a friend who agreed to be a model, and we walked from point A to point B in the centre of Nagoya. As you can see she&#8217;s looking great, very fashionable&#8230; but cold, and hence the puffy jacket (and I froze, too). It was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>23 Jan Photo of the week</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:45:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; This POTW is in celebration of Estonian Baruto and his first tournament win the January Tokyo Sumo Tournament. There is already suggestion that if he wins the next tournament he could become one of two top-ranked wrestlers (a &#8216;yokuzuna&#8217;). The only yokuzuna at the moment is Mongolian Hakuho. Currently, all the top wrestlers, who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Baruto wins</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 11:27:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In sumo news Estonian, Baruto (Kaido Höövelson; left, blue mawashi), won his first sumo tournament. He is the new kid on the block, an has ascended the ranks of sumo quite fast whilst gathering many fans in Japan. He was undefeated until today when he faced top-ranked wrestler Hakuho (who defeated him), but still Baruto [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Future of cameras</title>
		<link>http://japanesephotos.asia/blog/2012/01/future-of-cameras/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 03:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After many years I think I&#8217;ve learnt a few useful things. 1. Camera bodies become obsolete. 1a. Digital camera bodies become obsolete very quickly. 2. Lenses are often usable on many more camera bodies than vice versa. 3. An old joke: How do you make a million dollars in photography? Start with two million. Trey [...]]]></description>
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