This page is dedicated to updates, announcements and discussion about the Japan Blog Matsuri, a monthly blog carnival with a "Japan" theme. If you've registered for this blog and been approved as an author you can post to this page using the tag jbmatsuri.
The Japan Blog Matsuri for June 2009 has been published. The theme is “Living on a Budget in Japan” and you can read all the entries at Tune-in-Tokyo. Many thanks to Billy for hosting.
For more information on the Japan Blog Matsuri, please read about it on the FAQ.
Tomorrow, June 20th, is the deadline for June’s Japan Blog Matsuri. The theme is “Living on a Budget in Japan“.
Get your entries into Billy quick smart!
The theme for this month’s Japan Blog Matsuri is “Living on a Budget in Japan“. Our host is Billy from Tune In Tokyo. He’s taking over hosting responsibilities from Shane, who ran a very successful Matsuri about favorite places in Japan last month.
The Japan Blog Matsuri is a monthly blog carnival for Japan-themed blogs. You can learn more about it here.
Today is your last chance to submit an entry into the Japan Blog Matsuri. The theme is “My Favorite Place in Japan” and you can find out more on the Nihon Sun.
On a similar subject, the official Matsuri information page has been moved to the FAQ, along with the J-Blogger Conference page. Please link any future references to those pages (and the hosts for each event). Cheers.
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One interesting bonus is that posts sent to Twitter from this blog get the Twitter handle of the post’s author attached, like this:
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This month’s Japan Blog Matsuri will be hosted at The Nihon Sun. The theme is “My Favorite Place in Japan” and you can read the full announcement and instructions here.
Please help us get the word out about this month’s blog carnival! (Soc it here)
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As of now, this blog will be used for JapanSoc.com site updates and announcements only. Please post community chat in the JapanSoc Forums and anything specific to JapanSoc.com in its dedicated social group.
I’ve changed all the registered authors on this blog to subscribers, which was not an easy decision to make considering the history of the JapanSoc Community Blog, but times do change and the arrival of the forums has left this blog redundant, at least as far as a group blog goes.
I’ll continue to post Japan Blog Matsuri announcements here in order to keep the Newsroom updated, but the Events forum is now a more suitable place for Matsuri discussion.
Slow down and take some time out to read through this month’s collection of entries into the Japan Blog Matsuri. The theme is “Slow Times in Japan“. Help get the word out here here.
I just got my entry for this month’s matsuri in. The theme is “Slow Times in Japan.” You’ve got until tomorrow! Don’t miss out! All the cool kids are doing it! Peeeer presssurree…. 
By my watch, it has just turned April 16th, so that gives you 7 full days to get your Japan Blog Matsuri entries in! This month’s topic is “Slow Times in Japan” and the deadline is approximately the night of April 22nd. This month sees the Matsuri return to its founding site, WhatJapanThinks.com, which is the biggest site to have ever hosted the Matsuri. With nearly 3,000 subscribers, you definitely wont want to miss this! More details here.
April’s Japan Blog Matsuri will be Slow Times in Japan, as an antidote to last month’s theme. I’m looking forward to your stories.
OK, I know the Japan Blog Matsuri is in full swing, and it’s a great way to spread the word. This is a similar premise, but as people in Thailand would say it’s “Same same but different”. I’ve started up the All-Japan Blog Carnival which is open to any submissions about Japan, regardless of theme. So you don’t have to write an article specifically for it (unless you wish, in which case that would be great). What this will do is gain a bit of exposure for sites about Japan outside of the Japan blogging community, as people hit the Blog Carnival website from all parts of the web.
Have a couple of submissions so far, but if you’re interested and have a spare minute then submit an article and hopefully it will gain exposure for this site and yours too.
