Hi, call me JP, I’m an American guy, born in Boston, living in São Paulo, Brazil, working as marketing manager at a Barter company
So "WHY JAPAN?" well, December 2006 I had the opportunity to visit Japan, spent month and a half in Nagoya, Osaka, Nara and Nagano (Sorry No Tokyo yet) and I fell in love with the country.
So I’m planning to go back to study Media Convergence in Japan through a scholarship granted by MEXT, and this is just the beginning of the story…
10 Comments
January 29, 2009 at 5:07 pm
So, are you gonna come to Tokyo next time?
The biggest (and best) city in the world!
February 3, 2009 at 6:19 pm
JP, I just ran across your site via JapanSoc and like what I’m seeing – you’ll love living in Japan!
Please consider joining others who write about Japan at http://japansoc.org – , help promote your site and learn about other great sites at the same time. New members are always welcome.
February 6, 2009 at 12:27 am
Konnichiwa!
I hope your dream will come true and you can stay in Japan! Good luck!
February 13, 2009 at 7:56 am
JP – just a bit of friendly Japanese advice. Your site’s title is “Take Me 2 Japan” with the translated subtitle 「日本に私を取る」. You could make that subtitle better. First, “take me to Japan” sounds like a request, so the verb should be conjugated as a request or a command, not as the infinitive. (If you stick with 取る, it’d be 取って or 取れ.) I recommend that you don’t use 取る, though. Using 連れて行く would be much more appropriate, as it means “to take someone (somewhere).” So, that’d be 連れて行って or 連れて行け, depending on the tone you’re shooting for. Just trying to be helpful.
February 13, 2009 at 8:04 am
Nice site! Though I have to ask – is the Japanese in the title intentionally wrong? 日本に私を取る doesn’t make sense…
February 19, 2009 at 9:28 am
JP – here are 2 ways to do it.
1) “Take me to Japan!” (Command.)
「私を日本に連れて行け」（命令）
2) “Take me to Japan?” (Request.)
「私を日本に連れて行って」（頼み）
I think that’s right.
July 1, 2009 at 2:21 pm
Hi JP!
I’m curious about the Japanese as well as the Brazillian blogosphere and was hoping that you could help me out!
What I need to get my head around is:
1. Which are the biggest blog networks in Japan
2. Which are the biggest blog networks Brazil?
Looking forward hearing from you!
Thanks!
July 17, 2009 at 6:45 pm
Blog networks?
You Mean like Blogger and WordPress?
Here in Brasil Blogger is very popular, some people use WordPress, but blogger is the king. There is also some different systems like IGlog.
In Japan I’ve read that FC2 and Ameba are mostly because of the Mobile Interface. I believe Mixi also has a blogging system, so you can bet on it.
October 2, 2009 at 4:57 pm
It was just announced that the 2016 Olympics will be hosted by Rio De Janeiro.
I was hoping it would’ve been Tokyo.
But…congratulations!
October 28, 2009 at 9:30 pm
The japanese grammar discussion reminded me of the “Romans go home” part in “Life of Brian”.