世論 What Japan Thinks

What caught Japanese bloggers’ eyes last month? goo Ranking posted the top twenty outgoing links from their blogging site for the month of May 2007. I have a suspicion that perhaps one of the biggest stories in Japan, the dodgy Beijing not Disneyland at all, oh no, theme park has been removed from the list.

Here’s number 15, fresh from YouTube for your enjoyment.

Top links from goo Blogs, May 2007

Rank	Link	Explanation	Number of links
1	Hoheto Numerology Birthday Fortune Telling	Fortunes	639
2	Spiderman 3 Official Site	Sony Picture’s site	568
3	Kaocheki	Who do you look like? I blogged about this last month.	513
4	Babel Official Site	The movie	358
5	Pirates of the Carribean At the World’s End	Official home page	353
6	Yahoo! News – Zard lead singer dies	Quite a tragic story	281
7	Tree spirit fortune telling	From Spiritual Intelligence Quotient site	227
8	Gachapin Diary	A famous monster from Fuji Television’s children’s programming	215
9	toto Official Site	The Japanese football pools – there was a huge jackpot last month	214
10	Odin Sphere Official Site	Some PS2 game, it seems	189
11	Smash Brothers	The Nintendo game	185
12	Gegege no Kitaro Official Site	Famous Japanese comic comes to life on the silver screen	185
13	T-Shirt Maker	Upload your own picture and make it into a T Shirt	179
14	Bizan Offical Site	Another movie home page	170
15	YouTube – Otters holding hands	Awww, ain’t it cute?	162
16	Hello! Project -Official Site-	Home page of Morning Musume and other manufactured pop	153
17	All internet-based data storage services are infringing copyright – GIGAZINE	A rather overly-pessimistic report on a case that resembled MP3.com’s a few years back	147
18	ashes and snow	An art show in Tokyo	146
19	Shin Marunouchi Building	A new building’s home page	145
20	DoCoMo 2.0	NTT DoCoMo’s launch site for their new 904i mobile phone series	145