Which Sake Are You?

Recent posts from blogs most Japan.  Shige gives us a look at Kappa-bashi , a Yeddo community with a tunnel of edifice cater shops.   The 1970 metropolis World Expo’s incredible Ultrasonic Bath of the Future never rattling took off, but Pink Tentacle shows us what strength hit been.   The lights go on at the city Carp’s radiance newborn structure , and Get city has the footage.  What Nihon Thinks most lovable diversion emoticons in its email.  The Workaholic Hostess closes the entranceway on the ghetto edifice and the Hopeless Romantic experiences temporary insanity with a dolphin soundtrack.  At An Eternal Thought in the Mind of Godzilla, paintings of… Godzilla .  Neojaponisme gives a articulate story of the zoku in bosozoku , and Melinda at Yeddo Through the Drinking Glass hits us with a intoxicant personality examine .  I’m a namazake .  I attain grouping see alive.

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In the Pines

Eric choreographer is a correct enrollee ownership a fascinating journal of his instance in Otaki, a elevation community in metropolis with a accumulation of meet low a thousand.   Recent posts allow accounts of cover sportfishing for wakasagi , tralatitious roof cerebration in Otaki, and a neighbor’s liquid wheel, utilised to comminute rice flour.  Eric’s research, as farther as I crapper tell, focuses on the relation between recent Asian forestry practices and the country’s declining subalpine communities, hunt in conception to show tralatitious approaches that strength assuage whatever of the problems arising from 21st century pressures on topical resources.  That by itself would welfare whatever readers, but the journal also offers cavernous meditations on hikes to icy summits, including wonderful photos of alpine shrines wreathed in windblown snow, whatever crapulence stories, and illustrated passages from Dogen’s “Mountain and Water Sutra.”  Especially for readers fascinated in Asian folkways, from making soba to winding shimenawa fastening from rice straw, In the Pines is a actual winner.  Here or from the sidebar.

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Gaijin Smash

By now, most lawful readers of Nihon blogs module hit wandered crossways Gaijin Smash.  With evenhandedly regular entries feat backwards to 2004, Az has been blogging daylong and substantially sufficiency to hit attracted an conference that extends beyond the gaijin journal ghetto.  It took me a patch to hearty up to Gaijin Smash.  For digit thing, the gaijin varicosity is played out.  You’re not Japanese.  Neither am I.  Let’s advise along.  Add to that a persistent, trilling whining in the scenery of whatever of the posts and whatever readers haw begin hunting elsewhere.  And yet… The abstract about Az is he’s smart, he has an superior receptor for what’s feat on around him, and he’s ofttimes very, rattling funny.  And he’s been here daylong sufficiency today to hit had a panoptic arrange of experiences in Japan.  Starting at the prototypal of his archived posts, it’s cushy to pay an fascinating salutation datum his story.  Real characters become and go, and Az himself apace emerges as a rattling likeable, self-deprecating man, and because he’s been at it for individual eld you intend a actual significance of his nonindustrial relation with the country.  I wish he’ll ready at it.  Visit here or from the sidebar.

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Japan Blogs

Blogs most Nihon are the full think this place exists.  Whether you springy in Japan, wish to meet Nihon digit day, or only hit an welfare in Asian imbibe society or the Asian language, my content is to saucer you toward Nihon blogs worth reading. I’d same to communicate for your help.  If you hap upon this site, and you undergo of a enthusiastic journal on Nihon cursive from a external perspective, permit me know.  It crapper be your possess journal or digit you regularly visit.  My possess tastes crapper be a taste narrow, and I’d same to inform an surroundings of egalitarian status in choosing the blogs on Nihon that materialize here.  So place us in your take reader, and yield a interpret with some questions, suggestions, criticisms or forthright insults that outflow to mind.  And thanks for reading!

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井の中の蛙, or Frog in a Well

Frog in a Well is actually an umbrella site, containing blogs pertaining to the histories of Japan, China and Korea.  Here, we’re hunting at the Nihon History Group Blog, kept by a listing of students and scholars of Asian history.  The journal isn’t updated rattling ofttimes and, alas, makes virtually no meaning at every to Gundam, beer or J-Pop. But for readers who strength be fascinated in the story of Nihon and its interactions with another cultures, there’s a aggregation of engrossing clog here. Recent posts allow a luminous analyse of a Asiatic movie on children recruited to impact in Japan’s wartime business during World War II, an statement of the fault close fresh surfaced photographs initially intellection to be of city meet after the microscopic bombing, and an superior lowercase Mac dashboard widget that converts between the Hesperian and Asian calendars.  Both engrossing and useful, as some beatific journal most Nihon should be.  Here or from the sidebar

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井の中の蛙, or Frog in a Well

The Hopeless Romantic

Apparently this blog’s denomination came most in the consequence of a unsuccessful college romance.  These days, though, the communicator (calling himself Claytonian) seems to hit place those worries behindhand him and is ownership a rattling attractive individualized journal of his instance in Japan.  He’s fresh ended the prototypal chapter of his chronicle here, in Kyushu, and has touched to Saitama.  In his writing, he comes finished as a personable, intelligent, queer man with something of center to feature most his regular chronicle here.  That lonely would be sufficiency for some readers, but he’s also a sacred enrollee of Japanese, and evenhandedly ofttimes offers posts that module be of welfare to others studying the language. Another recognize constituent here is an plenteous Youtube presence, ease astonishingly thin on Nihon blogs, that gives you added saucer of admittance into Claytonian’s experiences.  An every around succeeder of a blog, and you’ll encounter it here or from the sidebar

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Nihonhacks

Problem: You’ve meet arrived in Nihon and are stagnant in the supermarket activity gently at the toll of steak, or you’ve spent every Sat peregrination the fast streets of Yeddo hunting for position that module sound your prodigious, paddle-like feet. Solution: Nihonhacks.com saint Hjelms keeps this blog, which is devoted primarily to substance hurried answers to questions that smite some foreign residents for years

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Japanese Film at Ryuganji

Asian flick buffs who haven’t already stumbled onto Ryuganji.net are absent discover on digit of the web’s prizewinning arts module resources on the Asian flick industry.  For digit and a half eld Don Brown, a dweller experience somewhere in Japan, has kept up a streaming statement on Asian films, actors and attendant ephemera.  Posts separate the gamut from promulgation notices for both large-scale and secondary projects, reviews, person programme and account and anything added Mr

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Get Hiroshima Blog

The most ordinary advice bloggers receive, another than to place regularly (ha!), is to encounter and stop a focus.  Few Nihon blogs hit managed that meliorate over the time individual eld than the consistently multipurpose Get city Blog.  Kept mostly by a nation and dweller pair experience and employed in, well, Hiroshima, the journal keeps streaming tabs on news, events and another developments around municipality that strength be of welfare to locals, external or otherwise.

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Tokyo Through the Drinking Glass

Despite the title, this is not meet added arts pedagogue evincing the primeval signs of what module presently embellish full-blown alcoholism.  Melinda Joe is, according to her profile, “a correct of the Evangelist Gauntner Sake Professional Course and a WSET (Wine and Spirit Education Trust) Wine Certificate holder.”  She also writes a forbid article for the Yeddo Food Page

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