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		<title>JLPT Summer 2010 Application Info</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Applications for the JLPT Summer Sitting are out now.
Info at a Glance
DEADLINE
APRIL 30th
Levels available for the summer sitting N1, N2, N3 (the hardest top 3)

TEST CENTRES:
Japan all centres



Overseas
See detailed list of centres here


ARE Conducting Summer Tests
NOT Conducting Summer test



East Asia



Korea &#8211; All Centres
Mongolia


China &#8211; All Centres


Taiwan &#8211; All Centres




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South East Asia



Indonesia &#8211; Jakarta ONLY
The Philippines


Cambodia
Singapore


Thailand [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.louiserouse.com/blog/learning-japanese/jlpt-summer-2010-application-info</link>
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		<title>March Recipes</title>
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March looks to be the hardest month on Masanobu Fukuoka&#8217;s seasonal cycle, and so, taking carrots as a pivot, I fell back on a fusion dish, some o-nigiri &#8211; adaptable to any season &#8211; and which is surprisingly hard to learn how to make, finally a slight cheat with carrot and coriander soup.
Soba
I&#8217;m indebted to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.louiserouse.com/blog/eco-seikatsu/march-recipes</link>
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		<title>New Eco Points System</title>
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The newly elected Democratic Party of Japan, now well past the 100 day mark in office, has decided to dip its toe into the easily muddied waters of green home rennovation. Like other nations&#8217; government initiatives, this one awards but does not penalise, whilst simultaneously making incremental changes to the building regs laws of new-build [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.louiserouse.com/blog/eco-seikatsu/new-eco-points-system</link>
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		<title>Wonder Speaks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tokyo Wonder Site: Aoyama Creator-in-Residence is holding an open studio day this Saturday.  
As well as being a chance to meet the current creators in residence at the ex-UN research building turned live-in studio space, Professor Hisako Hara of the Osaka Electro-Communication University is giving a talk entitled &#8220;Current Role and Issues of Artist-in-Residence [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.louiserouse.com/blog/arty-in-tokyo/wonder-speaks</link>
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		<title>February Recipes</title>
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Leading on from my last post, here are 3 recipes for seasonal Japanese food in February. The end of winter, before new vegetables are ready to harvest, is not traditionally the high point of the food calendar. However, the following three are tasty and full of variety in these dark evenings under the kotatsu. 
Kinpira [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.louiserouse.com/blog/eco-seikatsu/february-recipes</link>
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		<title>The One Straw Revolution</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The One Straw Revolution was a hugely influential book about natural farming techniques, written by Masanobu Fukuoka in the 70s. Its now been re-released in English after being out of print for a long time.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.louiserouse.com/blog/eco-seikatsu/the-one-straw-revolution</link>
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		<title>Winter Solstace Sakura</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Oh dear. The cherry blossom tree on my balcony opened a flower on the shortest day of the year. Now in full bloom&#8230;. Only 3 months early.

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		<link>http://www.louiserouse.com/blog/generally-japan/winter-solstace-sakura</link>
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		<title>Best Japanese learning tools of the year</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Next year I&#8217;m hoping to bag the JLPT 1, which is a helpful if somewhat archaic measure of Japanese ability that is useful proof to show to companies / scholarship foundations or annoy friends with at parties. It theoretically covers all the day to day kanji you would need to, say, read a newspaper, roughly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.louiserouse.com/blog/learning-japanese/best-japanese-learning-tools-of-the-year</link>
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		<title>Copenhagen fails, back to normal life</title>
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No comment necessary. Good luck, if you are a wealthy citizen of a first world country, perhaps you might consider investing in this alternative to a sustainable society.

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		<link>http://www.louiserouse.com/blog/eco-seikatsu/copenhagen-fails-back-to-normal-life</link>
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		<title>Japan manages a single vigil, is Prime Minister Hatoyama listening?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The jury is still out at Copenhagen, but round the world popular protest has tried to bring home the urgency of the situation. Here in Japan, a single vigil was organised, (a full 70 times less than the UK&#8230;) The new prime minister made a promising gesture by pledging 20% cuts (not sure on which [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.louiserouse.com/blog/eco-seikatsu/japan-manages-a-single-vigil-is-prime-minister-hatoyama-listening</link>
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