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Alex in Wonderland

This is the blog of Alex Bennett
As a long time Kiwi resident of Japan, I have decided it is about time I kept some sort of a diary to serve as a chronicle of my kendo addiction, and life in Wonderland.

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    The Christchurch Quake- 12:51 pm, February 22, 2011

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    , 11th March 2011 at 01:30 AM (Alex in Wonderland)
    I thought it was all just superstition, but yakudoshi really are the “years of calamity”. This is a Japanese belief that people who are at the “age of yakudoshi” are likely to experience some kind of catastrophe or illness. If you believe that new-borns start at one year old (kazoedoshi), yakudoshi for men is generally believed to be the ages 25, 42 and 61, and for women 19, 33 and 37. One’s yakudoshi is measured by adding one to your actual age, and as I was born in 1970, I fall plum into the 42 ...
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