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		<title>Efficiency begins at home</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 11:37:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been informed by a friend that La Nación, Costa Rica&#8217;s second most important newspaper, has put a link to a Japanese video on how to get a kid ready for school in five minutes. Within that time the child gets up, eats breakfast, washes his face, brushes his teeth, gets dressed and has [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nipontico.wordpress.com&blog=8385869&post=80&subd=nipontico&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An Unexpected Visitor</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 23:47:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sex]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night was one of those nights when one cannot sleep well for reasons beyond one&#8217;s control.  I was still working on a document at around 2 a.m. when my daughter woke up and asked me to sleep next to her.  She must have had a nightmare because she cuddled very tightly, holding [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nipontico.wordpress.com&blog=8385869&post=74&subd=nipontico&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Train &amp; The Cab Driver</title>
		<link>http://nipontico.wordpress.com/2009/07/15/the-train-the-cab-driver/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:02:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nippontico</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Customer Service]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My previous post&#8217;s story about my friend&#8217;s customer service experience made me remember an interesting experience I had last year.
Due to a very severe thunderstorm, trains were stopped for a couple of hours.  The inclemency of the weather was so wretched that lightning hit the very station where I was waiting out the storm. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nipontico.wordpress.com&blog=8385869&post=70&subd=nipontico&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Only in Japan? More On Customer Service</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:57:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nippontico</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I got in touch with a friend who told me a brief and interesting story that illustrates how helpful Japanese people can be.
On Saturday my friend was going home.  The train she was supposed to ride on was delayed because a man had taken his own life by jumping in front of an oncoming [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nipontico.wordpress.com&blog=8385869&post=65&subd=nipontico&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Customer Service Culture</title>
		<link>http://nipontico.wordpress.com/2009/07/11/customer-service-culture/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 15:26:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nippontico</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[黄な粉]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Japan&#8217;s customer service culture may well be the most advanced in the world.  It certainly is drastically different from that which prevails –if it is assumed to exist at all– in Costa Rica.
Last weekend my wife and daughter took a trip with my little one&#8217;s best friend and her mother.  As is customary [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nipontico.wordpress.com&blog=8385869&post=62&subd=nipontico&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Remembered Because of Daughter</title>
		<link>http://nipontico.wordpress.com/2009/07/08/remembered-because-of-daughter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 05:27:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nippontico</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[carelessness]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two days ago we went to have dinner at a restaurant we visit occasionally when we want to eat something relatively tasty at reasonable price. Because it is a place with a lot of customers that is full almost all of the time, I was surprised when the maître d&#8217; recognized us and told us [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nipontico.wordpress.com&blog=8385869&post=51&subd=nipontico&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Curse of the Grannies</title>
		<link>http://nipontico.wordpress.com/2009/07/03/curse-of-the-grannies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:47:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nippontico</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Elderly]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes it seems that my life is somehow inextricably intertwined with Japanese grannies/elderly ladies.  In Japan, one&#8217;s grandmother and other old ladies are called “obaasan” (お婆さん) or “obaachan” (お婆ちゃん); while both terms denote respect and affection, the latter conveys greater warmth.
Lately a granny always seems to be somehow involved in whatever happens to me. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nipontico.wordpress.com&blog=8385869&post=28&subd=nipontico&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Excessive Bowing at the Sony Building</title>
		<link>http://nipontico.wordpress.com/2009/06/30/too-much-bowing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:06:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nippontico</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[ginza]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is well known that Japanese bow to greet one another, to apologize, express assent.  Generally speaking, it is a way of showing respect toward others.  There are books about all the various rules that must be observed, as the occasion may warrant, to bow properly and in a way that will convey [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nipontico.wordpress.com&blog=8385869&post=1&subd=nipontico&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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