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 […]

Check out Let’s Go J-Sound! for a fabulous trip back in time down J-pop memory lane with a couple that describes their efforts thusly:
In 1991 a guy and a girl met and fell head-over-heels for each other. They spent much of their time from that day forward hanging out in San Francisco’s Japan Town and […]

Check out Japan Quest, a fun site that follows the adventures of two Brits and their camera as they improvise their way along a trip that starts from the northernmost point in Hokkaido and eventually will take them down the entire length of Japan.
Or, as they tell it. . .
Two Englishmen seek out the […]

The author Dennis Cooper has something of a Japanese porn extravaganza going on, over at his blog.

POETRY KANTO is currently looking people who would like to try their hand at translating contemporary Japanese poetry and coming up with novel ways of bringing Japanese poetry to the attention of the English-speaking world.
According to Mythic Passages, The Magazine of Imagination . . .
First published in 1968, Poetry Kanto is Japan’s leading bicultural, […]

Check out the Slash And Burn blog, which bills itself as being a discussion of Japanese film from an American perspective.
The site is packed with all kinds of information on Japanese film, both past and present.
Highly recommended.

JAPUNDIT reader Timothy Dombrovskis kindly writes in to point us to a pretty cool Japanese Flash game named Rose & Camellia.

The purpose of the game is to use your mouse to slap the face of woman opposite you, while ducking in enough time to avoid being slapped.
All the text is in Japanese, but […]

Are you a lonely man looking for a beautiful Japanese woman for marriage, dating or any other purpose that I haven’t bothered thinking of? well, your task might become a lot easier if you know where to start your search, that is the prefecture with the highest concentration of Bijin, beautiful women. A online survey […]

comScore has released the first comprehensive review of Internet behavior covering 10 countries in the Asia-Pacific region. The comScore World Metrix study reveals that in May there were nearly 284 million people age 15 or older who accessed the Internet from either a home or work computer in the region.
This represents 10 percent of […]

The bi-lingual manga Ello Bello is going strong over at Rising Sun of Nihon, with Installment #8 posted recently. Go here to see all eight installments.

Bill Belew of Rising Sun of Nihon writes to tell us of a new manga feature on his blog.
Three times a week he will be publishing a manga by Kan Shinoy called Ello Bello, with the dialog presented in both Japanese and English.

Go here to find out more.

In case you missed it, our good friends over at SparkPlugged are back in gear writing about modern Asian entertainment and culture.
Check out the latest post by Shay Alspace, which is a review of Korean hip-hopper MC Sniper.

Blog posts in Japanese have topped the blogosphere , according to Technocrati’s State of the Blogosphere report of April 2007.Currently, 37% of blog posts are in Japanese, up 4% from the last report. English posts came second with 36%.Based on my observations, Japanese blogs are often personal diaries, moblogs -content posted from a mobile or […]

Tokyo governor candidate and youtube celebrity Kouichi Toyama is henceforth the second most popular internet phenomenon after Haruhi Suzumiya among Japanese Otaku netizens. YouTube user Oniazuma has done a good job subtitling the video I posted several weeks back.

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And as a special treat for Japundit readers, here are some of the most famous […]

Japan’s first internet-based university opened Sunday 1st April, kicking off with an opening ceremony in Fukuoka, transmitted in real time to students’ computers. Cyber University was established by a company called Japan Cyber Educational Institute , aiming to provide lessons to students via internet. Featuring two departements, information technology and world heritage, […]

An art project started two years ago by a group of peace activists in Japan called “retired weapons” aiming to, according to the official website, promote peace and dispel sadness and pain. I personally dug the idea of flowers blooming on the tip of firearms and N-bombs and am already displaying it as a desktop […]

China is planning to clamp down even further on blogs and webcasts in order to counter new technologies that are making it possible for users to circumvent current government censorship. Their efforts reportedly are aimed at “purifying” the Internet and at creating “a more healthy and active Internet environment.”
“Advanced network technologies such as blogging and […]

Here’s a service that lets you check on whether or not your site is being blocked in Chinal.
Simply go to greatfirewallofchina.org, click the logo in the center of the page, and enter your URL.
In a few moments you will find out if your words are considered to be poison for the masses.

The march issue of Japanzine features an interesting guide to Japan-related web sources, ranging from blogs to Japan’s English-language publications online. The article went over the most prominent websites about Japan, divided into several categories. Obviously, Japundit was mentioned as well.
And guess what? I need to go outside and remind myself what the sun looks […]

The Japanese Communist Party now has a MySpace.
Oh, wait, it’s not that Japanese Communist Party.