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The blogger behind the site called With Malice — "the half-crazed ramblings of a Laker fanatic in Japan" — has posted his reactions to news coverage and the local reality of the quake and tsunami. He says his family is fine on the southern island of Kyushu — where the volcano is now erupting.
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