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	<title>Everyday in Japan &#187; Cost of Living</title>
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		<title>Honda Insight, The Cheapest of Alternatives</title>
		<link>http://everyday.3yen.com/2009-02-17/honda-insights-a-cheaper-alternative/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 05:53:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Expedited Writer</dc:creator>
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Amidst the current economic crisis that has currently hit the world, more and more people are looking towards stretching the value of their dollar. Where vehicles are concern, Honda&#8217;s latest hybrid Insight cannot come at a better time. The Insight is the cheapest hybrid car around with a tag price of under 2million Yen, which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Osakans have calculators for brains</title>
		<link>http://everyday.3yen.com/2008-10-26/osakans-have-calculators-for-brains/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2008 01:18:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Expedited Writer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems like residents of Osaka have a good brain for mathematics. They instantly remember prices and differences of prices between shops. But that is just a generalization, of course. However, with the downturn of the current stock markets many Osakans are feeling the sensitive pinch of price increases everywhere.

Osaka residents are said to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NHK slashing TV fees</title>
		<link>http://everyday.3yen.com/2008-10-16/nhk-slashing-tv-fees/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 04:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Expedited Writer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From 2012 onwards, NHK has decided to lower it&#8217;s viewership fee. 
Can someone tell me what the heck viewership fee is? I am accustomed to paying a month flat rate for my internet/cable tv/ phone line but I have never heard of a viewership fee before. 
Geezus&#8230;
Public broadcaster NHK has decided to slash viewer fees [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fishermen in Japan go on strike</title>
		<link>http://everyday.3yen.com/2008-07-16/fishermen-in-japan-go-on-strike/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:42:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Expedited Writer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Where will we get our fresh sashimis now?
A lot of people do not know or appreciate where their food comes from or who, in truth, is actually feeding them. It is people like the fisherman, the farmers and the cattle and sheep herders that are feeding people in the world. Without them, we&#8217;re too modernized [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Danchi lifestyle again?</title>
		<link>http://everyday.3yen.com/2007-11-28/danchi-lifestyle-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2007 06:22:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Expedited Writer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Danchi
Danchi (団地) is the Japanese word (literally &#8216;group land&#8217;) for a large cluster of apartment buildings. During the 50&#8217;s, 60&#8217;s, and 70&#8217;s, the Japanese created many such low-rent apartment complexes in the outskirts of urban areas to offset the housing demand of the then-increasing Japanese population. Fewer and fewer Japanese live in the gradually aging [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who says living in Japan is expensive?</title>
		<link>http://everyday.3yen.com/2007-07-11/who-says-living-in-japan-is-expensive/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2007 16:15:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Expedited Writer</dc:creator>
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To a lot of people, me included initially, thought living in Japan, particularly Tokyo, to be VERY expensive. But when I see some of their prices on foodstuff as well as other materials, it&#8217;s not as expensive as I thought it out to be and for some reason, I just could not comprehend how living [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Frugal Japan</title>
		<link>http://everyday.3yen.com/2007-05-24/frugal-japan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2007 18:36:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Expedited Writer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Frugal Japan
Living in Japan can be very expensive as some of your may already know. It does pay to live frugally there although being frugal doesn&#8217;t mean cheap :) I found a website where all of you living in Japan may find it to be very useful.
The website is called Frugal Japan. It&#8217;s a resourceful [...]]]></description>
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		<title>100 Yen Shop</title>
		<link>http://everyday.3yen.com/2007-02-14/100-yen-shop/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Feb 2007 17:19:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Expedited Writer</dc:creator>
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100 Yen Shop
If you look around Japan, you&#8217;ll probably find a few psychedelic colored shops around with a big board in front that says &#8220;100 Yen Shop&#8220;, with the words Yen in Japanese character. 100 Yen Shops are a big thing in Japan because the goods sold there are all 105 yen (100 yen for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why is Japan So Expensive?</title>
		<link>http://everyday.3yen.com/2006-09-11/why-is-japan-so-expensive/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Sep 2006 05:56:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chidade</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I found a website that tries to explain why Japan is so expensive. It makes me slightly suspicious, firstly because of the dodgy website design and hosting (on Yahoo! Geocities, no less) and secondly because I&#8217;ve seen things that are quite different to what the article outlines. The website is dated 2002 so it&#8217;s not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cheap bikes</title>
		<link>http://everyday.3yen.com/2006-05-09/cheap-bikes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 May 2006 08:30:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ptyx</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Looking for a cheap bike? Know that bikes are plague to most neighborhood in Tokyo. There&#8217;s too many of them. Hundreds of illegaly parked bikes are taken by your city services every months.
Most of those bikes go unclaimed as it would require their owner to pay a fee to retrieve them.
So what does the city [...]]]></description>
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