I was wondering where all the traffic was coming from today, and I found that one of my articles had been picked up by the Searchina news portal site. Searchina describes itself as a site for the encouragement of understanding through Asia, and the editors there have translated some key points from my September [...]

Today I have made some slight cosmetic changes to the site, removing the left bar to make posts easier to read, and to allow more space for some new sections that have been added to the site. Now you can simply click on the link at the top of the page to access all of [...]

If you will excuse a moment of self-indulgence….. A few moments ago we had our 1,000th visitor at Guyjin, someone from Honolulu, Hawaii. Yesterday alone we had almost a quarter of those visitors, and we look on track for about the same today. We will also pass our 2,000th page view in the next couple [...]

I don’t know whether to call him our man, your man, or his own man, but probably all apply equally. Guyjin has been featured as the blog of the week at Our Man in Abiko, and this is our attempt to say thanks with a thread to shamelessly cross promote his site as well…

 
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The Hatoyama Cabinet has been announced, with Hatoyama Yukio to be installed as Prime Minister by around 3PM today. The following is a list of the new Cabinet, with almost 100 links to their Japanese and English home pages and profiles, as well as links to their Ministries.

Hatoyama Cabinet
Prime Minister

(首相官邸) http://www.kantei.go.jp/
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I saw a distressing story today at Japan Today, taken from the Sept 8 issue of Spa! According to the article, legal loopholes in the Law Regulating Businesses Affecting Public Morals, are allowing establishments such as ‘ear-cleaning salons’ and ‘thigh massage’ to employ underage girls in situations that can [...]

Its been a long day, and only the front page has been available for most of it. But the issues have all been resolved and the site should be functioning as normal now. I've had a lot of good support in the fledgling days of this blog, and I hope you will continue to enjoy [...]

I apologize if you tried to access this site over the last couple of hours. Apparently the company that is hosting the site thought that this would be a good time for scheduled maintenance…. without even letting me know…. Hopefully this won’t happen again for the foreseeable future – they have assured me! Touch wood…..

There are plenty of topics that have arisen in the last few days that I will have something to say about tomorrow… Its getting late, but I didn’t want another day to pass without some kind of post here… The last few days have been pretty busy, but I want to try to make a [...]

Welcome to guyjin.me. ’Guyjin’, of course, is a play on the word ‘gaijin’, which every foreigner has heard many times. I’m not going to get into a deep discussion of the pros and cons of the term here. Suffice it to say that I chose the name of this blog in an attempt [...]