Welcome to Japanalyst
Japanalyst is an informal community for Japan related English blogging. The goals of the community are to encourage the growth and development of English content about Japan and to serve as a platform for finding and discussing up-to-date Japan related information and news. Japanalyst provides a steady stream of updates from member blogs writing about Japan.
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| Name | Blog author | Blog description | City |
|---|---|---|---|
| Japan Food Addict | Mai | Hello! My name is Mai. I'm from Kyoto, Japan. These are some of my favorite Japanese home cooking recipes. I think you will find they are easy to make—most of them take 20 minutes or less to prepare. Itadakimasu! (Let's eat!) | Kyoto |
| MyKansai | Wouter Kloos | A bilingual review of great place to eat, drink and do stuff around Kansai. | Kyoto Osaka |
| Out Of The Loop Line | Jeremy McMahon | A man and his minutiae, from a tiny pocket of Japan called Osaka. | Osaka |
| Twisted Flowers | Nejibana | Random thoughts on developments in Japan, interspersed with photographs from my travels. | Tokyo |
| SentoGuide | Wouter Kloos | SentoGuide provides information on sento, the public bath houses of Japan. We are constantly adding bath houses and additional information to our blog. | takatsuki |
Recent Posts
Many Japanese have a complex about their stomachs
Submitted by KenYN on Wed, 2010-03-10 17:41
I’m not really sure how the pie chart I have extracted from this survey by iShare into body complexes relates to the subject, but I thought it was interesting enough to graph.
Japanese Slang: Sagging Pants Kill Dreams
Submitted by claytonian on Wed, 2010-03-10 13:58Olympic dreams that is. I don't watch sporting events, even the Olympics, but escaping news of the pants-sagging scandal was impossible if you live in Japan. In Japan, they call sagged pants 腰パン (koshi-pan) which is made from the words koshi (hip) and pan (pants). Another slang word for this, when it is unintentional, is ハミパン (hami-pan, from hamiwoderu [jut out of bounds] and pantie).
J News Pic: The Best Bobsled this Side of Jamaica
Submitted by claytonian on Wed, 2010-03-10 13:56
Click to see more pics and Japanese Ramen
Submitted by Shibuya246 on Wed, 2010-03-10 09:28
Nothing like a good bowl of hot ramen in the middle of a winter matsuri.
Linda Linda Linda Japanese movie and punk anthem
Submitted by japansugoi on Wed, 2010-03-10 02:09Linda Linda Linda is a great Japanese movie. The 2005 production is about 4 Japanese high school girls in rural Japan who form a band so they can perform at the upcoming school festival. The film...
Godzilla & Hamtaro Wasabi YJ Item!
Submitted by laurelrinkya on Tue, 2010-03-09 23:08
Kawaii Hamster in Godzilla clothing!!
Brand new, unopened on YJ now!
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Snoopy Flying Ace USB Hub Can Be Yours For Peanuts
Submitted by Steve Levenstein on Tue, 2010-03-09 21:00
Not really "peanuts", but what goes together better than Snoopy and Peanuts? How about your computer and this cool, 3-port USB hub that evokes everyone's favorite beagle at his Red Baron-busting best?
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iPhone outselling all individual netbook vendors
Submitted by KenYN on Tue, 2010-03-09 18:11A recent survey from goo Research, reported on by japan.internet.com, into mobile devices (the fourth time this regular survey was conducted) found that the iPhone far outsold ASUS’s Eee PC, the top netbook.
Demographics
On the 9th of February 2010 1,080 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 53.1% of the sample were male, 17.0% in their teens, 18.7% in their twenties, 21.2% in their thirties, 16.5% in their forties, and 26.6% aged fifty or older.
Yamanote Line Automatic gates
Submitted by Shibuya246 on Tue, 2010-03-09 11:51
Looking back at the Yamanote Line train as it approaches the platform and the test gate section.
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