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		<title>June Jaunts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When school closes for summer vacation then my wife Marsha has the opportunity to go with me to some of the beautiful places where I perform. On June 9th I was scheduled at the Pacific Grove Library. Pacific Grove is a little community just south of Monterey along the beautiful Central California  Coast. It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chinese Moon Festival</title>
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Where would you suppose this authentic Chinese Lion Dance to be?
In old Singapore? Taipei? San Francisco?
It was held in China Alley in Hanford, CA the first Saturday in October for the annual Moon Festival. At one time Hanford had the largest Chinese population outside of San Francisco in the state. China Alley was the center [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The quiet side of Japan</title>
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For all the hustle and bustle of Tokyo, about 60 miles away one can find pockets of quiet, natural serenity. My good friends the Kataokas have found a wooded haven from the busy cities in the beach-side village of Akiya. I spent my last 24 hours in Japan there. The beach  of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flora and Fauna &#8211; Japan 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am always looking for interesting plants and animals wherever I travel.

This is an intriguing little ground flower I found near Zushi.

This colorful garden spider&#8217;s body was about an inch long, so with its legs outstretched it appeared gigantic!
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		<title>Tabemashoo! Let&#8217;s Eat!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Japan has wonderful cuisine and there was always a delicious meal or dinner party waiting for me! Here are some of the tasty treats I had the pleasure of sampling:

Well, I did not eat this, but these are plastic representations of the meals this restaurant offers.
This is a common way to show off the menu [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The 8th Japanese Ventriloquist Association Convention</title>
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My 30th Anniversary year with Groark ended wonderfully with our third appearance at the Japanese Ventriloquist Association (JVA) convention held in Tokyo at the National Youth Olympic Memorial Center (NYC). The JVA Convention attracted almost 200 ventriloquism enthusiasts from all over Japan for 2 days of tightly packed meetings, workshops, award ceremonies and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japanese Puppetry Field Trip 10-9-09</title>
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Kuruma Ningyo or “cart puppetry’ is a form of puppetry that predates the more widely known Bunraku puppet tradition in Japan. The puppets themselves are very similar in construction, size, and appearance to the Bunraku puppets.  However the kuruma ningyo are manipulated by a single puppeteer seated on a small, wheeled “cart” for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My 5th trip to Japan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was invited to perform at the Japanese Ventriloquist Association Festival October 10-12. This is my fifth visit to Japan and my third visit to a JVA Festival. I was greeted at Narita Airport by a small group of JVA representatives including my friend Kathleen Nomura, a talented ventriloquist, dancer and koto player from Yokohama.

Randel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Newspaper Article about our Asian Tour</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Hanford Sentinel, the major newspaper of Kings County (impressive, I know ;oJ) published an article about our recent trip to Manila and Singapore yesterday (Saturday October 3). Here it is:

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		<title>Little India</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Can you tell that this is the entrance to the Little India district of Singapore?

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