The list is growing...

The site is growing, but there still isn't quite as much as we'd like. Please look at what we have, bookmark the site, and come back in a week or so. We expect to have the site with a little more flesh on the bones then.

We do actually have a quite few pages here, so you might want to look at the following:

Culture

Sumo (some photos of sumo wrestlers in action - together with comments)

• A unique look inside a Japanese school (an American in a high school in Kyushu)
• Tea time in Japan
• Seals and identity in Japan
• Koto in the modern world

Popular culture

• Loose Socks (the famous page which got hundreds of hits per week in its original form)
• More loose socks and Japanese fashion notes (a little old, but still maybe of interest)
• Harajuku fashion
• Japanese TV - why is it so appallingly bad?

Politics and Economics (not nearly as boring as it sounds!! - includes fiction)

• The silver age of Japan (a look at the problem of Japan's aging population)
• Does Japan need yet another Japanese Prime Minister?
• "Making the most of your words" (Japan-based satirical fiction)
• Taking "Democratic" out of the Liberal Democratic Party (Mikio Aoki puts both feet in his mouth and then shoots them)
• Kamikaze politics

Technology

• The home of low technology (another side to Japan)

Other stuff

• The beauty of Tokyo (photos which show another side of Tokyo and the surrounding area)

We will be providing more content under the above headings (and more if the occasion demands).

We're also expecting some "multimedia" (anyone remember when Japan's politicians embraced the "multimedia age" without understanding what it meant?) in the form of sounds and creative images.In the meantime, if you haven't done so already, you might consider reading about the concepts behind j-views.