Comments on: Japanese Blogs?

Question: Japanese Blogs?

borkingchikapa — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 09:15:56 -0800

I want to start reading some Japanese blogs in an effort to improve my grasp of the language. Any suggestions?

I'm terrible with Kanji, and reading something like the Asahi or Mainichi Shinbun turns into a tiring exercise of trying to look up words I'll probably never see again. What are your favorite Japanese blogs and other sites that don't use incomprehensible (to me) news-speak?

By: ducksauce

ducksauce — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 09:34:03 -0800

I don't know of any blogs, but whatever you choose to read you may find easier with rikai. It's a proxy that parses a Japanese web page and turns all kanji into links. When you mouse over the links the definition pops up.

It has a tendency to make you lazy and you might not want to bother writing down the words so you can actually learn them, so be careful.

Also, I don't know if it qualifies as a blog, but I like reading slashdot.jp.

By: jak68

jak68 — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 10:38:22 -0800

I dont know much about japanese blogs, but you might find useful links at www.securitygirl.net and www.muninn.net. (look in their blogrolls). Two East Asian Studies graduate students with blogs. Might not be the kind of topics or language level you're looking for, but it might be a start. Mostly academic topics.

By: p3t3

p3t3 — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 11:17:45 -0800

Also a few in Gen's blogroll.

You can also randomly browse through blogs on blog hosting sites like livedoor.

Oh and another browser tranlating tool if you didn't already know: gTranslate for Firefox.

By: Lockeownzj00

Lockeownzj00 — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 17:52:58 -0800

Watshi to Tokyo used to be good for htis sort of thing, but I think she sort of disappeared...