The folks over at BoingBoing TV have written in to alert us to something called TOKYOLOGY, a new documentary exploring contemporary Japanese pop-culture hosted by Carrie Ann Inaba.

Oh, what adventures await: sneak behind the scenes at a Japanese Rock TV show that pretends it’s shot in Los Angeles, cruise Harajuku, go clubbing with goth girls […]

Check out this amazing site that is dedicated to showing images of mascots from all over Japan.

Found via Japan Soc

If Japanese castles are your thing, and you don’t know about it already, head over to jcastle.info, which provides an in-depth guide to all Japanese castles.
The site provides as much information as you would need before visiting, including 5-star ratings, maps and access info, photos, links, and some historical notes.
And in that spirit, here’s a […]

The site cubo.cc has only one page. It features a Japanese woman following your mouse pointer with her eyes. While I’m sure this will bring out the peeping Tom in some of you, I couldn’t help not to notice how red her eyes are.
The site itself doesn’t offer any further information other than an e-mail […]

Be sure to check out the latest addition to our blogroll, JapanSoc.

JapanSoc is a social bookmarking site where people save links to their favorite pages and posts about Japan to share them with others. Kind of like del.icio.us, Reddit, or Digg, but with a focus on Japan.
JapanSoc is run by Nick Ramsay, who invites […]

You might want to check out the latest addition to our Japan blogroll, jDonuts, a blog by an Australian living in Japan.

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.

japundits, as human beings, symbiotic fish, and the transcendent beings known as /4/chans, we must all, to truly live, at some point in our lives be dedicated to a higher purpose. whilst scanning the internet i came upon a website, which along with the recent spat with fg inspired me.

now go forth…and conquer
jk
hat tip […]

“A 200-strong army of beady-eyed, ball-shaped robots” is being deployed nationwide, says Pink Tentacle.
Not quite as scary as they might sound, these spherical chaps are “Pollen Robots” and are to be employed by Weathernews.jp to monitor the pollen count. And this being Japan, they have built-in Cute - the ‘eyes’ light up different colours as […]

Japundit has drawn reference to this site before. But if no one is looking at Japanese and other Asian movies (I saw The Maid the other day there…) on the Crunchyroll site, then that is a shame. It’s free and if you choose “bigger” the streaming video will be about twice as big as YouTube […]

It’s starting to get cold and I’ve been dreaming of ramen (or more correctly raamen). Problem is, there’s no good ramen in NYC and I’m not going to be in Japan for a couple months.
What to do? Hmm. I’ll make a ramen website!
Here it is: TastyRamen.com

For all the ramen lovers out there, […]

The art of Chinese counterfeits has risen to a whole new level with the revelation that someone has created a fake website posing as the country’s food and drug watchdog.
The site was apparently set up to promote a diabetes medication, according to a report on government-run Web site china.com.
While looking very similar to the State […]

Just a quick note to say congratulations to our friends over at Japan Sugoi on their first anniversary, and best wishes for many more to come!

And now for something completely different (as they say)…
Hitotoki: a narrative map of Tokyo.

comScore did a study on the expansion of social networking across the globe, revealing that several sites have experienced dramatic growth during the past year but also disclosed that that certain sites dominate in certain regions. The whole point of social networking is that everyone (who’s anyone) is on the same site(s) or else they […]

The .ASIA TLD, launched yesterday, is the latest top-level domain and it’s sure to be a popular and long-overdue one. DotAsia Organisation is the Sponsoring Organization and Registry Operator for the new .ASIA Sponsored Generic Top Level Domain. DotAsia is a not-for-profit, community-based organization incorporated in Hong Kong.
EURid, the European Registry of Internet Domain […]

Check out the post by Steve Levenstein over at InventorSpot where he reports on some of the unusual offerings from the Japanese chewing gum industry.

Check out this site for the Japanese version of Statetris, where you can enjoy playing a little Tetris while testing your knowledge of Japanese geography

Thanks to Raymond Penners

China is sending out two virtual police officers to patrol the Internet to combat online pornography and other “illicit activity”, state media said on Wednesday.
The virtual officers, a man and a woman, “will appear either on motorcycles, in a car or on foot, at the bottom of users’ computer screens every 30 minutes to remind […]

I took my first trip to Japan in 2004. When I got back to New York I found that I missed being there and seeing all the unique things about it, especially seeing what people are wearing on the street. Tokyo people really put themselves together well and you really notice it when […]