-Looking for what's kawaii? Interested in kawaii, cute fashion + goods from Japan, Japanese cuisine or language? Come look find kawaii shopping and what's more in Tokyo- Tokyo Kawaii, etc. Shop cute cool products or stuff and fashion clothing from Japan. Shop Japanese cute products, cute stuff and cute things. Find out this cute blog or cute website about Japanese pop culture.

How the things in your country? Do people get crazy about certifications and qualifications to get jobs as well? Would you like to try Manga or Anime Kentei, if you like Japanese anime? How about Maid Kentei if you like maid or lolita? For those who like decorations, decoden master may sound a compelling job?

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It’s been a while since I set up a poll at the bottom sidebar in this blog. I really appreciate those who kindly voted to it to let me know the answer to my question. If you have not done that yet, it’s still available, so please do that for me as you are also making this blog better. (^0^)/ Thank you!!

My question is this.
“What kind of information or entertainment (or service) are you looking for in this site?”

What do you think is voted most?
It is at a moment, “Cute kawaii fashion trend in Japan” followed by “Cute and fun products from Japan”.

Does this mean that I have to focus on these topics and forget about other topics such as learn Japanese, shopping info. or Japanese foods? I’ve wondered this so many times but still the basis of all these topics in this blog is Japan-related, from which point I’m not out of focus. Also there are voices from my readers that they enjoy variety of topics written through the eyes of a Japanese woman (me!) who currently live in Japan.

I know these days my topics are little too much about fashion and crafting and I’ve been away from other topics especially such as Japanese foods for a long time. This might have reflected the result of the poll, but I’m planning to share how to make Japanese cuisine videos if I can, as well.

Do you have any opinion about the direction of this blog? Do you want me to focus on Japanese fashion and cute goods only? Even if you like posts about Japanese fashion, do you still enjoy the rest of posts about foods or language?

At the same time, I was wondering if you are not that much interested in shopping from Japan? I think I can introduce you opportunities that you can shop from online Japanese shops and get them delivered. I am considering if I can introduce you cute stuff or cool stuff by email newsletter or something for free if there are readers who are pleased with service like that.

Anyway, if you are a reader of this blog and enjoy reading my posts, you are the one who has right opinions on these questions of mine. If you are not bothered, please let me hear what you think, hopefully from the CONTACT form directly to me, personally. (Comment section is OK but number of letters is limited and also is public so I think personal email will be more free.) Actually I really enjoy private emails that I receive daily and I never fail to reply to them!

Any opinions count to me. If you think of specific topics you want me to deal with, that’ll be also great! (^0^) Thank you for your support. Let’s make Tokyo Kawaii, etc. a better place for us!!

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★Tokyo Kawaii Perfect Map★
4/APR/2009 on air

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There’s no need to explain this time, because the show just looks like picking several old episodes up and presenting you the impression of what’s Japanese kawaii. Each episode is introduced at this page in this blog for your further interests and better understandings with my English summary.

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Disclaimer: The map is originally from Tokyo Kanko Ryoko and red letters are marked by me for your better understandings.

If you have a chance to shop or browse in Harajuku area, I think most of you do not even step inside backstreets, because main streets are already full of shops, restaurants and cafes. But backstreets can be more unique, more interesting, and anyway they are sometimes something more than main streets.

Here are some related links for you to check out to imagine how the Urahara world would be.

-Harajuku Cat street website
-Tokyo Kanko Ryoko
-Harajuku Urahara Mitegoran Guide
-Urahara jp
-Urahara org

These sites are in Japanese, but I believe you can at least enjoy pictures there.

Have you been to Harajuku before? If yes, how did you like that? Which shop did you go and find what? When I was a teenager, my mom didn’t allow me to hang around Harajuku, because she said it’s a dangerous place for kids. Time has passed, and I’ve never had any dangerous happenings out there since my first Harajuku shopping in high school age. Now it’s a place too young for me to hang out but I still like to see people out there.

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I’ve set up another blog in Japan last weekend. At a moment I run 4 blogs.

No.1- Japanese Cuisine Daily Recipes & Something Kawaii From Harajuku
(Free Blogger blog that I started Feb.2008 in English and I still keep it while I update a new post only once in a while.)

No.2- Tokyo Kawaii, etc.
(This blog that I work hardest, and love most! I pay for domain and hosting server, from which you’ll see how special this blog is to me.)

No.3- Pi-chan (my dog) blog
(Free FC2 blog that I run in Japan in Japanese.)

No.4- My daily stock exchange market trading blog
(Free Seesaa blog that I run in Japan in Japanese.)

Wow! No wonder I’m busy! But I’m spending most of the time for Tokyo Kawaii, etc. (this blog). I know I should stick to 1 blog, meaning Tokyo Kawaii, etc. only, but the first blog is still good to be kept. The third dog blog is important in order to record how my dog spends her life with us. The fourth one also is important to record what I am learning and how I’m acting in my daily trading habits.

Some of the readers from my first blog (Japanese cuisine…) might be confused to hear that I’m trading at stock exchange market because I used to work as an importer, house renovation planner, and writer. But now I’m working from home. Online stock exchange market trader from home, writer and blogger. Why such a big career change? It’s a long story so let me avoid explaining that here. :p

Instead, today I’ll introduce blogspot in Japan, as some of you are already good at Japanese and may want to browse Japanese blogs to read or to write a blog in Japanese by yourselves.

Blogsphere in Japan is totally different from the U.S or most of English spoken countries. First of all, Wordpress is minor, which I think is because there are many attractive free blogs available in Japan and how to manage dashboard or how to write a post is far easier and more convenient compared with Wordpress or blogger.

This is a dashboard from Seesaa blog and I was surprised to find this difference. In English blogsphere, we basically add things we want. We may join Google Analytics to track stats, and paste the code or do something to activate it if we want it, for example. To the contrary, Seesaa had everything there including stats. (not from Google, but original one) We are then deleting things we don’t need. That’s it!

Japanese people are used to this style; say everything being given in a package, and so, customizing blogs with plugins by themselves like what we do with Wordpress is not accepted.

Here are major Japanese free blogs for your reference.
-FC2 (Do you know FC2 ranks in No.2 in Alexa in Japan!?)
-Seesaa
-Ameba
-Livedoor
and there are actually hundreds of more but above 4 blogs are I guess most popular ones. There are many blogs that do not allow affiliate promotion. (Above 4 blogs are OK)

If you prefer Ezine, rather than blog, there is a free Ezine stand called “Magu Magu” and this is the most popular and the largest scale in Japan. Of course you can start yourself both blog and Ezine (in Japanese it’s called “melumaga” meaning mail magazine) for free, if you want to. But I know how hard it’d be to write constantly in foreign language, so you can at least browse Japanese blogs and Ezines of your interests just as you like to improve your Japanese with fun!

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