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		<title>Nature-Asia Publishing Index</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nature Asia-Pacific has just launched the Nature-Asia Publishing Index, which analyses the papers published in all of the Nature group of journals by researchers working at institutions in the Asia-Pacific region, including India and Australasia. The data is interesting, because the Nature journals are very important primary research journals, so they give some idea of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidchart.com/Blog/2010/03/18/nature-asia-publishing-index/</link>
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		<title>Kanazawa, Day One</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, last weekend we went to Kanazawa, and had a really good time. Mayuki was good, and apparently enjoying herself, for most of it, with only one tantrum, and that on the last day. Kanazawa is a lovely city, well worth a visit. In particular, Yuriko and I both thought that my mother would really [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidchart.com/Blog/2010/03/14/kanazawa-day-one/</link>
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		<title>Back Home</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve just got back from a three-night, four-day trip to Kanazawa, on the Japan Sea side of Japan. We all had a great time; Yuriko said she did, and Mayuki seemed to enjoy herself most of the time, apart from one tantrum today, when she decided she didn&#8217;t want to wear her jacket.
I took lots [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidchart.com/Blog/2010/03/10/back-home/</link>
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		<title>First Rabbit Festival</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today was this year&#8217;s First Rabbit Festival at Shirahata-san. Because it is held on the first day of the rabbit in March, I always have to ask when it is. (I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ve mentioned it before, but the animals of the Chinese zodiac are used for days as well as years.) Fortunately, I could attend [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidchart.com/Blog/2010/03/06/first-rabbit-festival/</link>
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		<title>New Flat</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday we handed over the money and became the owners of our new flat. Well, new to us; it&#8217;s actually twice the age of the current one, and very close to it. So, why are we moving? The new flat has an extra room.
We had to go to Yokohama to borrow a room in a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidchart.com/Blog/2010/03/02/new-flat/</link>
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		<title>Becoming a Civil Servant</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I received a letter from the mayor of Kawasaki, informing me that I had been selected to serve as a representative on the eighth session of the Kawasaki Representative Assembly for Foreign Residents. My term of office starts in April, and runs for two years, until March 2012.
Apparently, while I am a representative, I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidchart.com/Blog/2010/02/28/becoming-a-civil-servant/</link>
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		<title>New Immigration System</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Japan is changing its immigration system (probably). The law was passed last July, and within three years of that it will be brought into force by cabinet order. There is an article on the Japanese Immigration website about it, which is my source for what I&#8217;m writing here. That article is in Japanese, and has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidchart.com/Blog/2010/02/27/new-immigration-system/</link>
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