Japan Blogs
I've discovered many of the blogs below via JapanSoc.org.Andrew Shuttleworth's Japan Blog List is also worth a look as well.
If you have a blog about Japan, let me know about it.
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The Nihon Suki
- For the Love of Ramen(Ramen Setagaya)
- New Year, New Music
- Tis the season.. (Music Edition)
- EVENT ALERT:[NYC EVENT] Vital Signals Japanese & American Video Art from the 1960s & ‘70s
- [EVENT ALERT] The New York Botanical Garden Presents: Kiku in the Japanese Autumn Garden
- My Oricon Charts pick of the week!
- Prepare to be moved, while watching Tokyo Magnitude 8.0
- [CONTEST ALERT] EDUFIRE WINER !!!!!
- Date an Asian Man
- The Frog Princess Release date in Japan
Alexandre Gervais
- Machiya of Gion, Kyoto (Japan)
- Shops of Sannen-zaka, Kyoto (Japan)
- Who polices the Police?, Tokyo (Japan)
- Fancy hairstyle in Seijin Shiki, Tokyo (Japan)
- Lanterns of Pontocho-dori, Kyoto (Japan)
- School trip to Tenryu-ji, Kyoto (Japan)
- Pierced Blonde of Seijin Shiki, Tokyo (Japan)
- Gion at night, Kyoto (Japan)
- Prayer wheels in Kōdai-ji, Kyoto (Japan)
- Pontocho-dori, Kyoto (Japan)
Black Tokyo
- Sayonara Asashoryu
- 7-11 to provide new resident, seal certificate service
- No Health Insurance, No Visa
- Major Blow to USMC Move from Okinawa?
- Japanese from the 70’s and 80’s
- Black History Month Tokyo 2010 (BHMT 2010)
- Haitian in Japan
- Japan’s Population Continues to Decline
- COLA rates drop in Japan
- The Yakuza and Politics
Digital World Tokyo
- Panasonic 3D Viera plasma TVs to go on sale in April
- Sony 11Gbps millimeter-wave wireless link removes wires and circuitry inside gadgets
- Move over Roomba: this hospital robot could save human lives
- Latest Greenpeace Guide to Greener Electronics bad news for Nintendo, Microsoft
- Wireless iPhone headphones from TDK looking sweet, at a price…
- DoCoMo looking to get iPad 3G contract for Japan ahead of local iPhone carrier
- Quick roundup of a few of the latest digicams & camcorders
- Sanyo full HD video camera does 14mp photos too, has double-range zoom switch
- Panasonic Lumix TZ10 world’s smallest GPS camera, comes with AVCHD Lite HD video too
- Making the best Japanese iPhone apps fly worldwide
Frugalista Japan
- Teaching The Maiko, part 2
- Qing Dao travelogue
- 2010 Goals, and progress so far
- 300 Subscribers and Another $50 Kiva loan!
- Teaching the Maiko
- Lost your job in Japan? Don’t stress it
- Buy a Mac to save money over time
- Getting Unemployment Benefit in Japan
- August Japan Matsuri – Frugal Living in Japan
- Announcing the August Matsuri, Frugal Tips for Living in Japan
iPhoning Japan
- Review: Augmented Reality app ‘Layar’ for iPhone 3GS
- App Review: Sekai Camera
- iPhone app review: Koetan! Voice Recognition Tokyo Train timetable
- App Review: Tokyo Metro Augmented Reality
- Softbank’s first corporate iPhone client: half a year on
- iPhoning Japan Presents: Live-streaming the Tokyo Marathon with an iPhone strapped to my forehead
- The iPhone: an essential tool for anyone living in Japan
- iPhone App: Japan Phrases
- Repost: Buying a Not free iPhone in Japan
- iPhone users in Japan must manually apply for new discounted data plan
Jamaipanese
- Photos from Black River Jamaica
- ‘Rise Again’ – Haiti Relief Song Music Video
- JR Yamanote Line Departing Melody Keychains
- Selective Gaming and Photography Level-up
- Jamaipanese.com turns 4 today
- Metroid Other M Japan Website
- All Hail Japan Podcast
- Operation Visit Japan – January 2010 Report
- Meet the Lexus LFA Supercar
- Japanese Culture and Calendar Exhibition 2010
Japanator
- Japanator AM Episode 4: Love and Durararararararara!
- Endless Eight gets an R1 box set
- Apple iPad may be especially useful for Japanese study
- First teaser for Karigurashi No Arrietty shows up
- IKEA manga sheets will bring you Swedish mochi balls
- Japanese man attempts to renew his license while drunk
- Nippon Ichi gets hammered, profits down 97.5%
- MC Happiness: The rapping, tap-dancing Buddhist monk
- Nobuo Uematsu to appear at Anime Boston
- Rock the charts: Japan's box office numbers 1/30 - 2/05
Japundit
- Live from Locohama: The Reality show
- Like a Japanese Brady Bunch
- The Hello Kitty Chainsaw Massacre
- Where is the love? More than 1/3 of Japanese couples now 'sexless'
- Clean Magnesium Energy Cycle Hints at Fossil Fuel Freedom
- Shibuya people 2 - A look on the street of center gai
- 10 Weird Japanese Foods
- Japa Dog - Famous Vancouver Hot Dog Vendor
- Winter Wonderland
- New link directory mapping the English web in Japan
Japan Soc Blog
- Japan Blog Matsuri Updates
- JapanSoc Restarted – Help & Feedback Thread
- JapanSoc Broken, Will Start From Scratch
- Cash Prizes in the January 2010 Japan Blog Matsuri
- Dumb Otaku’s Japan Blog Matsuri
- Coming Soon: The December 2009 JBM
- JapanSoc Development Update Oct. 2009
- Feeling Hungry? Hamburger Matsuri!
- Login Problems Fixed
- Login Problems
Japan Soc
- 10 Weird Japanese Foods
- The Soul of Japan: 2010 Winter Wonderland
- Unusual vending machine in Japan
- JFA chief urges Japanese fans to 'boo their hearts out'
- Japan Sunset
- Asashoryu and me
- Record high 85% of Japanese favor death penalty
- You, your wife or girlfriend pregant? Better get a haraobi.
- 40 great vintage Geisha Photos
- More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan: Japan from the air.
Lonelee Planet
- 10 Weird Japanese Foods
- Gekkan J-News Review – January 2010
- Matsuri Cash Giveaway – Winners Announced
- Nikkeijin – The Japanese Peruvians
- Sexy Pikachu Cosplay
- Famous Japanese People
- Living With A Foreign Name In Japan
- Publicly Sleeping Salarymen
- Japan Blog Matsuri – The January 2010 Theme
- Aussie Rules Football Enlists First Ever Japanese-Born Player
Guyjin.me
- Japanese Album Chart: Jan 4 – Jan 11
- Japanese Singles Chart: Jan 4 – Jan 11
- Japanese Box Office: Jan 9 – Jan 15
- Japanese TV Ratings: Jan 4 – Jan 10
- Japanese TV Ratings: Dec 28 – Jan 3
- Media Bias in Japan
- FUJI tops TV Ratings for 2009 in all Major Time Periods
- Japanese Asked to Apologize over WWII Sinking of Hospital Ship
- Japanese Box Office: Jan 2 – Jan 8
- Japanese TV Ratings: Dec 21 – Dec 27
Osu! Tatakae! Nippon!
- TBS Election Rip-Off Video?
- People Need To Stop Being Idiots
- Dissolution
- Debt Will Eat Me Alive (Also A Woman Was Burnt)
- Land Of The Rising Unemployment Figures
- Aso Meets His Boss
- Abandoned Hotel Becomes Even More Abandoned
- Not Long Before Flying Monkeys Now...
- YoYoJam Japes
- Maria Sharapova Taking On Four Guys And A Girl
Our Man in Abiko
- Is that dead or alive?
- The Long Goodbye? Nope. Just getting off the news cycle for a bit
- More to come
- Listen to the Japanese children, for they speak the truth
- They are not called a bunch of bankers for nothing
- If only Japanese TV news were half as bad...
- Debito and Our Man: The Truth is out there
- Talk about blue movies - this is Avatar
- Sorry, but foreigners bloody well should vote in Japan, so there
- Remember when Blair was popular and the monarchy wasn't?
The Banzai Effect
- Hiiragi Kagami & Izumi Konata Beach Queens Ver. by Wave
- Kinema Kan Touhou AMV PV
- Japan: Sitting Dog
- Wonder Festival 2010 Winter Highlights
- Microsoft Ends Xbox Live For Xbox
- Ctc Tours Brings Tokyo Anitour feat. Yoshimi and Dannychoo
- Shoko Nakagawa’s Life Story Turns Manga
- Nintendo Developing New Platform?
- Hatsune Miku Rice Cracker
- Nendoroid Nakano Azusa by Good Smile Company
1rick.com
- My Set-up
- On Aggregating in Drupal
- My guest post on Journalism 2.0
- Brainstorming TokyoSocial on Google Wave
- Making a Chess Screencast
- Christine Usyak on this Saturday’s Yokohama Barcamp
- Tracking Twitter reponses to Obama’s Town Hall in China
- 7 Tips for Building Local
- How Short Links Can Solve Ginormous Problems
- Many Hands Make Light (Web) Work
Tofugu
- What I Want To See With Apple’s iPad (In Regards To Japanese)
- In Japan, You Visit A Scary Japanese Doctor 12+ Times A Year
- How To Listen To Japanese Music For Free
- “Glee Japan,” With The Help Of My (Big) Friend Akebono Tarō
- If You’re Homeless In Japan, Here Are Your Options
- 100 Years Sea [TeamLab]
- Japanese Snow Monkeys Warm Your Heart With Hot Springs
- What Do You Call Your Japanese Sweetheart?
- Every Time You Zip Up Your Pants, Mr. Yoshida Smiles, Creepily
- Making The Traditional Hanging Scroll Mobile, iPhone Edition
Tokyotopia
- Eats And Drinks Around Inaricho Station
- Our Japan Travel Information Includes Deals, Discounts, Coupons, And More To Help You Plan Your Travel To Japan...
- Your Train Travel Japan Deals Don't Come Better Than This! Looking For Japan Travel Info To Save You Some Money? This Is It!...
- The JR East Pass is a special Japan train travel discount ticket for tourists to the country...
- Attractions Near Grand Arc Hanzomon Hotel In Tokyo
- Saw Mountain - Nokogiri-yama In Chiba Day Trip From Tokyo
- Japanese Bullet Train
- The Japan Rail Pass Is A Great Discount Japan Travel Option For Tourists...
- Looking For Flights To Tokyo? Compare Prices And Find Cheap Deals Using Our...
- Nara Japan - What To See And Do At This UNESCO World Heritage site...
Yonasu
- A Mysterious Door at Hanzomon Station
- Modern(?) Design Building Entrance in Tokyo
- MinxZone Coming to UppCon:10
- 1500 yen Japanese iTunes Store Punishment Giveaway
- How To Use iTunes FULLY in Japanese
- Party in Kichijoji and Kokubunji
- First Trip to Roppongi
- Takeshita Street, Harajuku
- Yoyogi Park and Meiji Shrine with Friends
- Walking from Hanzomon to Akihabara
What Japan Thinks
- Computer speed, internet speed main computer dissatisfactions
- Personal grooming FAIL
- Secrets you’d rather not have heard about her
- Married Japanese women and mobile phone bills
- Two in five Japanese thinking of doing two jobs
- Convenience store Juki Net worry most Japanese
- Japanese culture: part 2 of 2
- Japanese culture: part 1 of 2
- Pedestrian-paced internet common in Japan
- Third believe in blood typing, quarter in horoscopes
Centakume
- My Experience With eBay
- Mobile Suit Gundam 00F: Volume 1 [Review]
- March 2010: The “Unicorn” Arrives
- BBAMAJAM Cosplay Contest: Take 2
- Fullmetal Alchemist State Alchemy Exam [Review]
- Interesting Find: iPod Touch
- Highlight of 2009: Otakast Interview
- Auron: Character of the Decade
- 2009 in Review
- Merry Christmas!
7:10 to Tokyo
- Takarasagashi: Nose-Picking, Japanese-Style
- Paying For Your Coffee in Tokyo? Loser!
- Reality’s a Bitch
- I Own the Night
- Goin’ Geeky in Tokyo: Satisfaction and Regret
- Tatsuya Ichihashi Captured! Tatsuya Who?
- Best Picks of My Tokyo Pics: Got The Time?
- Last Chance for Tokyo Filter
- Best Picks of My Tokyo Pics
- Trip Report: Viva Las Vegas, Baby!
Loco in Yokohama
- Live from Locohama: The Reality Show!
- Conversation 2/06/10: Are you 100% Japanese?
- 200 Posts ago…
- Can you be more Japanese?
- The trials and tribulations of teaching English in Japan pt.3
- I should ask my wife: Conversation 2/1/10
- Black and White in Japan pt.6
- The trials and tribulations of teaching English in Japan pt.2
- The Street Fighter: Sonny “Shinichi” Chiba
- The trials and tribulations of teaching English in Japan pt.1
Pink Tentacle
- Snow sculptures at Sapporo Snow Festival 2010
- Monster illustrations from ‘Yokai Jiten’
- Video: Star Wars disco sea chicken
- Now hiring part-time cadaver cleaners
- ‘Bad Apple!!’ stop-motion animation
- Illustrations of future robots (1969)
- Secrets of the Tokyo underground
- ‘Desert Eyeball’ manga by Maki Sasaki (1970)
- ‘Ririkan’ fast-food mystery meat
- Diego-san humanoid robot baby
Rick Martin
- Yahoo Japan's 16 Doraemon apps are an iPuzzle
- And the award for Most Ironic Media Festival goes to...
- Human-Powered Washing Machine
- What I wish Apple had announced
- Awesome hack: Transparent DS!
- China Says Goodbye to Google With Cartoons
- For your viewing pleasure, two epic commercials featuring sumo
- Awesome Japanese wooden robotics
- Google auto-complete kind to Japan and China, not so fond of America
- Akky from Asiajin on the Japanese tech scene
Tokyo Mango
- Phallic decor at Chinese Cafe 8 in Roppongi
- U900, a pair of crocheted animals that play music
- Scott Fujita, a white NFL player who feels culturally Japanese
- Setsubun festival at Toyokawa Inari
- Toshiba cell phone promises to act like a secretary
- Beef bowl price wars signal deflation
- Yasuko Namba, once the oldest woman to climb Everest
- Tokyo Vice, a book about an American journalist on the yakuza hit list
- Momotarou restaurant in Pokhara
- How Zoff is taking over the eyeglasses market
3yen
- Strange Japanese Voodoo
- Hello Kitty Chainsaw
- Japan’s Olympic Fisting threat!
- Japan vs the 10 Ugly Rivers of the World
- She’s all Pockyed up on Valentines
- Star Wars Tuna Commercial
- 99 percent of the world’s catch is good ‘nuf for Japan
- Full of Beans!
- Japanese documents belong in the toilet
- Narrowest Train Platform in Japan?