世論 What Japan Thinks

You might have seen that to celebrate their 10th anniversary, Google has put their index from 2001 online. Let’s try a few searches and see how Japan looked then:

• Ken Y-N was Welsh
• What Japan Thinks thought about privatisation
• Japan Probe was favourable to Microsoft
• Japundit did not exist
• Danny Choo was Choo Choo Records
• Japan Soc was a newsgroup
• Tokyo Times was on Interesting People
• Trans-Pacific Radio was nuclear fallout
• Debito was still Debito
• an englishman in osaka was an englishman in new york
• The Long Countdown was 335 days, 2 hours and 4 minutes away from Christmas
• Nihon Hacks was a translation hack
• SUICA was someone in Guatamala
• taspo was the Trinidad All Steel Percussion Orchestra
• mixi was a Finnish kennel and cattery
• 3Yen was the non-consolidated interim financial results
• Japan Blog Matsuri was some eyecandy to start your day right
• TV In Japan provided top quality information via the borderless digital media
• Watashi to Tokyo had a pet name problem
• And finally, Gaijin Tonic was Gaijin A-GOGO