Well, as always happens every so often, many of our current team of JAPUNDIT contributors seem to be off doing other things that need to be done, so it has come time to add some new blood to the mix.
If you are living in Japan or if you have some intimate connection with Japan, and […]

After a bit of a rough start thanks to a hack not long after it was launched, Japan News Junkie finally reached its one-month anniversary yesterday. Despite the down time due to the hack, we had more than 13,000 visitors during our first month, which is not bad at all for a new blog. I […]

Following are some results from a listener survey we conducted for the Japan Talk podcast.
We got more than 400 responses, and I would like to thank everyone who took the time to participate.
Your age:
25-34: 35.08%
35-44: 20.16%
45-54: 16.23%
21-24: 13.61%
18-20: 7.07%
55+: 5.50%
13-17: 2.09%
under 13: 0.26%

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What a strange day it has been in Kanto today.
As I mentioned this morning, I was in Tokyo all day (just go back about an hour ago), and the weather was violent throughout the entire day. On the way in on the train, a lightning strike disabled some switches, which caused the train I was […]

Due to a hectic schedule that will have be out of the office all day today, posting will most likely be light.
There will be things going on at Japan News Junkie, though.

I am busy putting together the podcast and doing other things, so please check out Japan News Junkie for the latest in hot Japan News Stories.
It’s got a great new look that makes participation easier than ever, and you can submit your own stories, vote for existing stories, or comment.
See the JNJ FAQ for more […]

Just an announcement to invite everyone to come on over and visit a new site I just started named Japan News Junkie.
It is a social bookmarking site that allows members (you) to post links and short blurbs about posts and sites of interest about Japan. When you do, your post is assigned one vote and […]

JAPUNDIT has become quite the talk of the Japanese Internet, which has been boiling over with anger over the now-defunct Mainichi Wai Wai.
It seems that someone has picked up on this JAPUNDIT post that quotes from a Wai Wai column we found particularly amusing because it was so incredibly outlandish. Of course, we intentionally inserted […]

We recently had a the following question sent in by a listener of our Japan Talk podcast.
I’m going to Japan this August to see my relatives and taking a few friends along with me, the problem is I heard from a couple people that, there’s a chance that if you take your laptop the […]

Mr. Pink writes in to alert us to the following passage over at Investing In Japan.
In “Hollowing Out, Tokyo Style,” FT Alphaville’s Gwen Robinson does a fine job of capturing an ongoing, and now accelerating human resources conundrum. While it seems like there’s no shortage lately of fake Japundits (not to be confused with the […]

JAPUNDIT reader Brandon Butler sent us a screen shot of an actual play that came up in a recent Scrabulous game.

Looks like a winner to me!

Just a note to let everyone know what I will be out from today until late Friday evening.
I am not taking a computer along with me, so I will not be posting. Because of this, things may be a bit thin for the next few days.

found an interesting article on the wordpress platform. since japundit is a growing site with some past issues involving the site going down i thought it might make an interesting read for both the casual japundit and those who run their own blog/vlog based on the wordpress platform

We’ve just received word that famed JAPUNDIT contributor Marie Mockett has accepted an offer from Graywolf Press to publish her first novel, Picking Bones from Ash, which is scheduled to start hitting bookstores in 2009.
Marie tells us:
I’m so excited to have a home with Graywolf. They are considered a “small big press” and a […]

Has something happened recently that we here at JAPUNDIT have missed?
After a long period of visitor numbers holding virtually steady at a certain level, JAPUNDIT has, over the past week, had a precipitous drop in visitors to about half of what we normally get. This all happened over a three or four day period, and […]

Be sure to check out Overoften’s Kumamoto Diary for a fabulous account of the life and times of an Englishman residing at the foot of Mt. Aso.

Japan-based online shop J-List is looking to hire a native English speaker who’s already living in Japan, preferably the Tokyo/Kanto area.
If you have useful knowledge of and passion for anime, manga and general “otaku” culture, especially currently popular shows and trends, you may be the type of person we need.
Experience with Photoshop and […]

It looks like our good folks who host our site here have done what was required to get us back to normal.
This is the longest that JAPUNDIT has ever been down, and though I enjoyed the break, its time to get the show back on the road.

We’re experiencing some technical hiccups at Japundit, which means that posts may be delayed until we get them sorted out.
Please bear with us for the time being. ‘Normal’ service will be resumed as soon as possible.

Apologies to those who were experiencing trouble accessing JAPUNDIT over the past couple of hours (10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Japan Standard Time).
The site was down because some warped soul decided it would be fun to hack our Word Press system and insert malicious code here and there.
Most of the blame is with me, however, […]