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The current issue (#478) of the Metropolis, the long-standing resident English town guide for the Tokyo area, has taken notice of the expat-in-Japan blogging craze / explosion / phenomenon / however you’d like to describe it. This site got a mention as “maybe the most detailed Tokyo blog,” (not really quite sure what that means), [...]

In light of the group blog Tawawa that I mentioned a few days ago, I’ve come across 6 weblogs of students who have been studying in Japan during the Spring semester, housed under the umbrella site the East Asia Center: Andy Clark: Understanding Japanese Youth Culture Through the Interview Austin Damiani: Cultivating Interdisciplinary Synthesis John [...]

A few weeks ago I came across Tawawa, a “group weblog” written by English students at Mie University (Mie Prefecture) and the brainchild of Rudolf Ammann, a member of the Faculty of Education there. At the time I discovered it (those good ol’ referrer logs), the site (and class, English Composition III — Writing for [...]

Just tonight I received two emails from new Japan-based bloggers asking to be added to my list in the right-hand margin (to go along with another email from one of the people behind Tokyonyc (“a new yorker’s view of japan”)). So that probably means it’s a good time for one of these posts. Without further [...]

In its worst nightmarish iteration, this is what you can look forward to when I start putting my nascent moblogging into high gear! (I can hear a stampede to the exits as I type). Seriously, it looks like a camera phone will be in hand soon (the above pic was taken a couple of weeks [...]

I’ve been linking to her for a while now, in the sidebar to the right, but today Tokyo-based “a photography, digital media, film, visual culture and techno-gadget enthusiast” Lil has “officially” launched her esthet.org site, complete with a wonderfully understated look put together with the help of MJ of Cerebral Soup. And a great found [...]