Japan Blogs of the Year - results
First, thank you to everyone who voted, and thank you to everyone who nominated or commented in the threads. I hope you all found it interesting and have added a few new blogs to your reading list; I’ve enjoyed running this, so it would be nice to try to make this an annual feature.
Second, this is just a summary of the winners; over the slow New Year period, and once I get some comment from the winners, I’ll review the winners in detail and the candidates in summary, and work out how to distribute the prizes, etc. In addition, I will also select a bonus winner from amongst the commenters in the voting and the nomination thread.
So, without any further ado, here are the winners:
Best serious Japan blog of the year - Observing Japan
Observing Japan wins for its detailed coverage of the political scene, as one of the growing number of blogs looking into aspects of Japan that rarely get aired in English.
Best humourous Japan blog of the year - tofugu.com
tofugu.com takes a multimedia look at Japan, and its YouTube coverage of this poll was responsible for driving a lot of votes here.
Best culture Japan blog of the year - Let’s Japan.org
Let’s Japan.org wins, a fit reward for being a key gathering point for those disgruntled at the meltdown at Nova, and perhaps with less swearing it may even have been in line for the best serious blog!
Best technology Japan blog of the year - Pink Tentacle
Pink Tentacle takes a slightly sideways look at technology in Japan, and I read it to study the style and to pinch writing tips!
Best personal Japan blog of the year - My So-Called Japanese Life
My So-Called Japanese Life has excellent writing, and is a most deserving winner in this section.
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Shari said,
December 27, 2007 @ 09:03
Thanks for the kind words about my writing, and, especially for running the contest. I hope you will do it again next year though you may want to disqualify previous winners with each successive contest in order to focus the spotlight on different blogs each time. (It’ll also cut down on the number of blogs you’ll have to consider as time goes by.
) I guess it sort of depends on the ultimate purpose of the contest.
Thanks again!
www.japansoc.com said,
December 27, 2007 @ 21:51
Japan Blogs of the Year: and the winners are……
WhatJapanThinks.com has announced the winners of the “Japan Blogs of the Year” awards. It’s hard to argue with the winning sites, so if you haven’t got them in your blogrolls, now is the time….
Pink Tentacle greatest hits - 2007 ::: Pink Tentacle said,
December 28, 2007 @ 00:54
[…] site among their 100 favorite blogs, to the readers of What Japan Thinks for voting this site the Japan technology blog of the year, and to the handful of TV and radio programs, newspapers and magazines that mentioned this site on […]
Jamie said,
December 29, 2007 @ 13:24
I think you should include a new category, “Best Blog about the other side of Japan”, and then Secret Japan @ http://www.eigoninja.com/secretjapan can win it!
Seriously, check out my site if you wanna keep in touch with the secret side of Japan; cosplay, lolicon, offbeat news, weird new sexual fetishes and porn - all the shocking truths and not a single cherry blossom picture in sight!
/ shameless self promotion.
ps; site is NSFW, as you might expect~
Japan Exposed Through Opinion Poll Translations « LongCountdown.com said,
January 12, 2008 @ 21:13
[…] Times, and now he’s sharing his fortune with the rest of us by hosting crowd-pullers like the Japan Blog Awards and using his web skills to promote the JapanSoc social bookmarking site with the JapanSoc […]
Peter said,
March 28, 2008 @ 21:09
Ken,
Well done, its great to showcase the great work these bloggers do and to promote Japan further in the blogsphere. They keep us informed and inspire us.
cheers Peter