Eric Cunningham is a graduate student keeping a fascinating blog of his time in Otaki, a mountain village in Nagano with a population of just under a thousand. Recent posts include accounts of ice fishing for wakasagi, traditional roof construction in Otaki, and a neighbor’s water wheel, used to grind rice flour.
Eric’s research, as far as [...]
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In the Pines
Posted in academic, culture, living, miscellany, outdoors, people, rural on February 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Japan Blogs
Posted in miscellany on September 1, 2008 | 15 Comments »
Blogs about Japan are the whole reason this site exists. Whether you live in Japan, hope to visit Japan one day, or simply have an interest in Japanese pop culture or the Japanese language, my goal is to point you toward Japan blogs worth reading.
I’d like to ask for your help. If you happen upon [...]
井の中の蛙, or Frog in a Well
Posted in academic, culture, history, miscellany on August 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Frog in a Well is actually an umbrella site, containing blogs pertaining to the histories of Japan, China and Korea. Here, we’re looking at the Japan History Group Blog, kept by a roster of students and scholars of Japanese history. The blog isn’t updated very frequently and, alas, makes virtually no reference at all to [...]
The Hopeless Romantic
Posted in culture, humor, living, miscellany, teaching on August 29, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Apparently this blog’s title came about in the aftermath of a failed college romance. These days, though, the author (calling himself Claytonian) seems to have put those worries behind him and is keeping a very engaging personal blog of his time in Japan. He’s recently finished the first chapter of his life here, in Kyushu, [...]
Nihonhacks
Posted in food, living, miscellany, travel on August 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Problem: You’ve just arrived in Japan and are standing in the supermarket weeping softly at the price of steak, or you’ve spent all Saturday wandering the blistering streets of Tokyo looking for shoes that will fit your prodigious, paddle-like feet.
Solution: Nihonhacks.com
Thomas Hjelms keeps this blog, which is devoted primarily to offering quick answers to questions [...]
Get Hiroshima Blog
Posted in living, miscellany, nightlife, people on July 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The most common advice bloggers receive, other than to post regularly (ha!), is to find and hold a focus. Few Japan blogs have managed that better over the past several years than the consistently useful Get Hiroshima Blog. Kept mostly by a British and American couple living and working in, well, Hiroshima, the blog keeps [...]
An Eternal Thought in the Mind of Godzilla
Posted in culture, miscellany on July 3, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Alright, no matter how it may seem from time to time, Japanese pop culture has yet to infiltrate every shadowed nook and cranny on planet Earth. And perhaps you’re one of those who finds this an enormous relief. If so, you are dismissed. On the other hand, if you’re an anime and manga fan who [...]
Let’s Japan
Posted in living, miscellany, teaching on June 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This blog is a potential lifesaver for some hapless young humanities major out there, with fantasies of coming to Japan and teaching English while he (a) dates an endless parade of submissive auto show girls (b) becomes a martial arts legend or (c) gets an apartment in Akihabara and claws his way to the top [...]
Néojaponisme
Posted in culture, miscellany on May 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is another group effort, and an excellent example of how well this blogging model can work. Néojaponisme draws on the time and talents of at least four regular contributors who write brief but interesting articles on Japanese culture, covering topics from film and literature to architecture and television. In addition to articles, the blog [...]
Four Corners of Japan
Posted in miscellany, outdoors, travel on April 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
What a find! There are some foreigners who pick one town or neighborhood in Japan and cling to it like barnacles. Then there are the other kind.
Meet the other kind. From their first blog entry:
In spring 2008, two Australian writers are leaping into a very big and exceedingly ancient pond, walking the entire length of [...]
What Japan Thinks
Posted in culture, humor, miscellany on April 15, 2008 | 3 Comments »
This is such a great idea, and it’s turned into an enormously popular blog. After several years of trying to puzzle out what the Japanese actually thought about religion, Ken began to find and translate a variety of surveys and polls. Things quickly got out of hand, and in just the last week, the blog has [...]
Cherry Blossom Adventures
Posted in culture, living, miscellany on April 15, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Here’s a very lively, chatty blog being kept by a young Australian in Tokyo. She’s engaged to a Japanese man and has been teaching in an international kindergarten. They’ll be moving back to Australia shortly, but only for a year.
Sometimes its pleasant to read a blog that isn’t trying to flummox you with a hipper-than-thou [...]
Icebox
Posted in culture, miscellany on April 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A wonderful site from the Hailstone Haiku Circle. From the “About” page:
The Hailstone Haiku Circle is a group of poet friends – some Japanese and some foreigners – mostly living in the Kansai area of Japan, where both Basho and Buson were born and died. We meet regularly to study, compose and share English haiku, [...]
Chanpon
Posted in culture, living, miscellany on April 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is a fascinating project, launched by a group of alumni of one of Tokyo’s international schools. The word “chanpon” means a blend of distinctive ingredients, or the juxtaposition of elements that, on the surface, may seem at odds with one another. Chanpon.org explores those places where Japanese culture makes close contact, for better or [...]
Beck Block Blog
Posted in living, miscellany on April 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Another Daddy Blog, this one from Adam Beck. Adam works for the Hiroshima Peace Center, and has been responsible for a number of interesting charity projects launched from Hiroshima.
On the blog, you can follow the day to day life of an American trying to make a living doing something other than teaching English, while [...]
TV in Japan
Posted in culture, humor, miscellany, television on April 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Not NHK news, but clips from some of the more exuberant moments on Japanese television. Naturally, nearly all the clips are in Japanese, but they’re good fun to watch even if you have no idea what’s being said. Includes commercials, variety show segments, music videos and more. Recent entries include a cross-dressing Maid Cafe, a [...]
Walking with Lee
Posted in culture, living, miscellany, travel on April 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Not a foreigner’s blog, but an excellent English language blog by a resident of Tokyo. The basic idea? Shige takes us along as he walks Lee, his miniature dachshund, through some of the capital city’s loveliest spots, morning markets and shrine festivals. Be sure to stop by and take a look.
Find it here, or from [...]
Pink Tentacle
Posted in culture, miscellany, television on April 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Unfailingly interesting, Pink Tentacle offers visitors a grab bag of Japanese pop culture both past and present.
Recent posts include 16th century drawings of fantastic beasts thought to cause illness, an eerily lifelike robot patient used by dentists-in-training (nicknamed Pain Girl!), and footage of a pianist performing on a blazing piano on the beach in Ishikawa [...]
Tokyo Tsure Zure Gusa
Posted in culture, living, miscellany, photography on April 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Tsure Zure Gusa is the title of an old Japanese novel, translated into English as Essays in Idleness. The only idle thing about this blog is the rate of postings. Written by Tokyo’s Quinlan Faris, the blog combines interesting (if infrequent) entries about daily life in Tokyo, local politics, learning Japanese and other subjects [...]
Blogs on Japan
Posted in miscellany on March 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is the first post of Japan-in-Motion.com’s new blog. We’ll be introducing blogs on Japan and Japanese culture from a foreign perspective. Most of the blogs presented here will be in English, but we may from time to time introduce blogs written in other languages as well.We hope this will be of interest to you. [...]
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