The Last 12 Months
It’s exactly a year since Big On Japan first came online. Over the past year articles I’ve published here have included the Toilets In Japan series, the Website Review series, and the My Favourite Slang series - if you want to know the definition of expressions like runway futon, Gameboy dropper, Flying While Gaijin and mentalist, then you’ve come to the right place!

Other articles have included The Axe Effect (about deodorant in Japan), Beer And The Mother Tongue (about beer vocabulary in the English language), The Sasebo Burger Nazi (about a hamburger restaurant owner), Around Osaka (about the Tsuruhashi area), Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building (about Tokyo’s best skyscraper), Sampling Sake (about a Sake Museum), Big In Japan - Kiku (about Japan’s national emblem) and Kure Kure Takora (about an insane kids’ TV show from the 70s).

As well as articles, I’ve also been posting photos on this site as part of the Photo of the Month series, plus other interesting and unusual photos such as samurai Colonel Sanders, the Harajuku oddball, Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building, the vomit bar, Tsuruhashi (Osaka’s Korea Town), the claw machine with live lobster prizes and the ultra big condoms. I’ve also put a few bizarre Japan-related videos on Big On Japan - Survival English, Kure Kure Takora episodes and a toilet training video.

Check them out if you haven’t seen them already.

The Next 12 Months
Over the next 12 months you can expect more of the same: writing, photos and videos related to life in Japan. Some of my best stuff is still yet to come, and forthcoming posts include more of My Favourite Slang, the Top TV Commercials, Beer In Japan and Food In Japan series, plus the Fish Tales series, about some unusual experiences with fish. I’ll also be finally getting around to posting the Japanese Anachronisms and Interpretations of the World Around Us series, for which I posted the introductions way back in November 2006.

There’ll also be individual articles on diverse topics such as survival english, handshakes/bowing and queueing, and probably some translations of articles into Japanese too.

I’ll be posting new material on Big On Japan every 1-2 weeks, so please keep checking back regularly or click the ’subscribe’ button in the top right of this page to use a feed reader to receive notifications whenever I update the site.

Majestyk,
September 2007.

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