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		<title>Cheap Space Nine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last December, after newly registering on Yahoo! Auctions Japan, I won an auction for the entire seven seasons of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (DS9).  At only 5,000 yen ($60) it was an amazing deal.  A Kiwi guy in Otaru had them for sale, and I just got lucky.  They were the authentic, North American [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Deck: The Sequel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the nice things about the Saroma AET house was the deck that Hiram built about 10 years ago.  Unfortunately, all of the decking wood except the posts were untreated wood, and over 10 winters of snowfall, giant plowed snowmounds, and their successive melting, the deck became pretty well rotted to bits.  Intending to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.seanmisen.com/?p=445</link>
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		<title>Palmerites Visit Saroma</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I always encourage my friends to visit.  I like having visitors and I think it&#8217;s even more important to do so here in such a small town.  Nik, my predecessor, told me that he never got many visitors to Saroma.  This left me less than optimistic about friends visiting me, here in this far-flung remnant [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.seanmisen.com/?p=346</link>
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		<title>Mount Nikoro</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Saroma, while surrounded by mountains, isn&#8217;t dwarfed by them as is Palmer or other towns in Hokkaido.  Saroma sort of melts into the softly rolling, forested mountains, many of which are small and gently sloping enough to be farm fields.  There is one mountain at the very southern edge of Saroma that is a decent [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.seanmisen.com/?p=414</link>
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		<title>Japanese the Japanese Don&#8217;t Know</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last month my girlfriend gave me a comic book.  It was a surprising departure from the Japanese comic books I had come in contact with before.  This one didn&#8217;t have any robots, explosions, buxom beauties or astonishing obscenity.  It dealt with Japanese linguistics and foreigners to Japan, like me, who study Japanese. It was titled [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.seanmisen.com/?p=261</link>
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		<title>Statistical Saroma, 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[March 31st marks the last day of the fiscal year here in Japan, and everything is being finalized and finished. As such, a copy of Saroma&#8217;s 2010 Mini-Stats landed on my desk this morning, hot off the presses. I previously translated and distributed the 2009 Mini-Stats to members of the Palmer City Council and travelers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.seanmisen.com/?p=366</link>
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		<title>Saroma Town Proper</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One thing that is difficult for an American to grasp when visiting Japan is municipal divisions. Most of America is unincorporated, middle-of-nowhere spaces. Once you enter a town or city, you are then technically &#8220;somewhere&#8221; more specific than the state you are in. In Japan, every piece of land is part of a village, town, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.seanmisen.com/?p=321</link>
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		<title>Mike Beeson&#8217;s Fantasy Kanji Guide</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My good friend Mike Beeson is visiting Japan.  He spent a few days here in Saroma, and did his best to read the Chinese &#8220;kanji&#8221; characters that are used in Japan.  Amazingly, while he had no idea what the characters meant, he was able to see them as pictures, and started creating his own meanings, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.seanmisen.com/?p=278</link>
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		<title>Saroma</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In July, over 20 visitors from will come to Saroma to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the sister city relationship between Palmer, Alaska and Saroma, Japan.  Some of the members of this group have lived in Japan before, some even in the very house where I write this.  Many however, are visiting Japan for the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.seanmisen.com/?p=266</link>
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		<title>Saroma&#8217;s Long Life University</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A version of this article appears in the current Palmer-Saroma Sister City newsletter. As in most of Japan, Saroma’s population includes a large number of senior citizens.  The town Social Education Department organizes a continuing education seminar for these seniors.  This meets twice a month and each session lasts an entire day.  It’s called Kotobuki [...]]]></description>
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