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		<title>Portland Taiko &#8211; Oregon Lost &amp; Found</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 08:01:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Akiyo Horiguchi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Something was going to inspire me to finally write in this blog again after months of making excuses to myself. I&#8217;ve just come back from Portland Taiko&#8217;s culminating show of the season, Oregon Lost &#38; Found. I often catch myself overusing the word &#8220;awesome&#8221; (my California upbringing, maybe?), but Portland Taiko is, in the true [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bananacream.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4385982&amp;post=325&amp;subd=bananacream&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Up</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:25:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Akiyo Horiguchi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Up is a great movie in every way. It manages to be mature and genuinely touching while not skimping on silly fun, and is of course delivered in beautiful Pixar animation. I&#8217;m still not sure anything can quite live up to the perfection that is The Incredibles, but it beats WALL-E by far. And&#8230;one of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bananacream.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4385982&amp;post=319&amp;subd=bananacream&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sister Cities</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2009 17:58:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Akiyo Horiguchi</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Portland-Sapporo sister city]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the most eventful part of that weekend for me, see previous post. June 5 &#8212; After the re-signing ceremony and reception, I was finally off the hook. I wandered over to Pioneer Place mall with some of the Sapporo delegation. (I think we did lose some people, but I don&#8217;t blame them; they&#8217;d just [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bananacream.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4385982&amp;post=311&amp;subd=bananacream&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Translating is hard</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 02:59:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Akiyo Horiguchi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, the Portland-Sapporo Sister Cities celebrated their 50th anniversary in conjunction with the Portland Rose Festival. On Friday, June 5, a delegation from Japan, including Mayor Fumio Ueda and Sapporo City Assembly members, arrived for a weekend of activities commemorating our sister city relationship. I enthusiastically volunteered to participate in the festivities. I figured [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bananacream.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4385982&amp;post=298&amp;subd=bananacream&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Feature and a Short Film: Tokyo Sonata and Le Maison en Petits Cubes</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 08:28:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Akiyo Horiguchi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Somewhere in my ridiculously busy schedule this month, I&#8217;ve been trying to keep up on special film events. The Northwest Film Center&#8217;s Portland International Film Festival is happening right now (through February 22nd), and the Hollywood Theatre is showing Academy Award-nominated short films. (Mild Spoilers) Tokyo Sonata is about a family whose patriarch gets laid [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bananacream.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4385982&amp;post=287&amp;subd=bananacream&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thank you, pioneers</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 06:28:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Akiyo Horiguchi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was going to post more pictures from my San Francisco trip back in November, but I somehow never got around to it. But right now, I feel inspired. Today, between going to my taiko class, almost being done reading Stubborn Twig, and conversing at length about being a Japanese-American, I thought of these photos [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bananacream.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4385982&amp;post=279&amp;subd=bananacream&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m a little late to the party but&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2009 08:45:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Akiyo Horiguchi</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;with our new President Barack Obama becoming recently inaugurated, I just wanted to share more stories from my last trip to Japan. My shiny new passport in hand, wherever I went, I proudly announced to friends and family that as of last summer, I am now an American citizen. And, invariably, one of the first [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bananacream.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4385982&amp;post=270&amp;subd=bananacream&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title> Stubborn Twig and Mochitsuki</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 06:21:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Akiyo Horiguchi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been quite a week for Japanese-American culture in Portland. On January 15th, I went to a reading/talk by Lauren Kessler, the local author of Stubborn Twig, the selection for the Oregon Reads 2009 program. The idea is that people across the state will read this book over the next several months. Because of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bananacream.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4385982&amp;post=252&amp;subd=bananacream&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Film: Sukiyaki Western Django</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 08:10:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Akiyo Horiguchi</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Clinton Street Theater]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Director: Takashi Miike Runtime: 121 min./98 min. This is the kind of post-modern, genre-mashing film I would have loved to write a paper about back in film school. I came out of the movie wondering if this is supposed to be a parody or an homage. Or maybe both? It&#8217;s a Japanese Western with a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bananacream.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4385982&amp;post=236&amp;subd=bananacream&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Two families</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 20:43:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Akiyo Horiguchi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like the one from last time I was in Japan about a year and a half ago, we went to a get-together dinner with my dad&#8217;s side of the family (mostly his cousins &#38; their families). The next day, I met my stepmother&#8217;s family for the first time since she and my dad got married [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bananacream.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4385982&amp;post=229&amp;subd=bananacream&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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