Covering the economic and industrial might of Japan

Although this is shameless self-promotion, my own blog fills a bit of a niche that I haven't seen anyone else tackle. I have a physical disability and one of my goals this year while I'm in Japan is to check out as many different places as I can and rate their accessibility.

There seems to be an almost complete lack of information about living and getting around in Japan for disabled people, so I hope to help rectify this. While I'm only really just starting out, a few extra readers thrown my way would be a nice motivator ;)

My blog can be found at: tresu.blogspot.com

More self-promotion....

ZB's A-Z of J-Music is my Japanese music blog. I try and cover a wide range of Japanese bands from rock to pop to metal to electro, with a strong focus on underground and indie bands. There isn't a lot of English coverage of Japanese music, at least not much beyond the massive amount of idol fan-sites. I know a lot of people still think of Japan as simply copying western trends and sounds, so I'm hoping to shed some light on the subject. Almost 200 bands down...so many more to go!

FYI - The Japan Guide link is actually a duplicate of Konbini Life...

I like Web Japan http://web-japan.org/ - they have a lot of interesting articles on trends, art and culture.

Shane

As a side,
everyone should have a "symbol" or icon for people like me who prefer icon based links as opposed to text based.
I think this will be more common pretty soon (?!)

Also I'm hunting for other School owners who Blog about their experiences.

Hi Simon,
Welcome to the conversation. Thanks for commenting!
I never look down on shameless self-promotion (well mostly) because I have been introduced to more good sites that way than by any other.

And I think your site is a great idea! When I was taking Japanese classes at Sophia U. in Tokyo there was a student in my class who had been injured in a car accident and was in a wheel chair. He had the hardest time getting around day to day or travelling in Japan. It is really an issue that deserves more attention.

I see that you know about JapanSoc, submitting your posts there should help a bit and I would glad to interview you for DailyJ too. And you can submit tips to NihonHacks.com as well (his site is about tips for daily life in Japan). Ok, that's enough shameless promoting from me :)

Japan survival guides is one topic where I really want to have a deep discussion about what we can do to bring together the kind of content that will offer real support to foreigners in Japan (and those wanting to go to Japan).
Time and time again I keep hearing from people about how they wish they had the information or advice they are trying to share now, before going to Japan (and about how it is difficult to find information).
I hope that through this series we can do something about this need.

(more from me, tell me if I'm talking too much :)

Hi Zac, thanks for commenting!

To Zac and Simon,
Later in this series I am going to be talking more about collaboration, including joint projects.
I think joint projects are a great promotion tool. Find some one blogging about something similar (or complementary) and find a way for the two of you to do something together.
For example, with your site Zac you could maybe do some sort of project with another site that does reviews like Adam's slashandburn that does reviews of (non-anime) Japanese film. A Japanese underground culture festival or something like that!

There are a lot of possibilities out there, what we really need I think is a better way to connect the dots...