Celebrating Japonica’s 50 Day Anniversary
A huge arigatou to all our writers and readers
Fifty days ago we started Japonica as a publication for Japanese culture. We weren’t sure what the publication would become, but we thought it would be interesting and fun.
Fifty days later, we still aren’t sure, but it certainly has been fun. (And a lot of work!)
Fifty days must be an auspicious milestone in some culture, so today we’re celebrating.
First of all, we want to give a huge, huge thanks to our many writers. Without you, Japonica would be nothing but a blank page. Doumo arigatou gozaimasu.
And we need to give a huge, huge thanks to all our readers. Without you, there’d be no point. Doumo arigatou gozaimasu.
To our readers, we ask for 1 thing in return. Medium pays writers a small amount for each article. But writers can only get paid after they reach 100 followers.
If you don’t have a Medium account, please sign up for a FREE account. Just add your name and email. Then, click on the articles and press the “follow” button on the right side under each writer’s photo. It would mean a lot to every writer.
祝50日！私たちの記事を読んでくださる皆さんのおかげで、Japonicaは多くの方とのご縁に恵まれ育ちつつあります。日本文化を英語でお届けするのは時に難しいものですが、皆さんの声に励まされ、ここまで続けることができました。心から感謝申し上げます。
この機会に、Mediumのアカウントをお持ちでない方は、ぜひ無料アカウントを作ってみていただけると幸いです。ライターは100名のフォロワーがついて初めて、少しだけ収益を得ることができるようになります。
Japonicaのライターをフォローして、彼らを応援してあげてください。
そして皆さんも、記事を書いてみてくださいね。日本語のライターも引き続き募集しております。登録をご希望の方は、この記事に日本語でも英語でも、お気軽にコメントください。
Creating a journal of Japanese culture in (mostly) English has some unique challenges. One is that on this anniversary, English speakers would shout in big letters how successful we’ve been. Japanese would write a small message saying thank you to honored readers taking your precious time to read our worthless little project and apologizing for not doing better.
So, without exaggeration or false modesty, what have we accomplished in 50 days? We’ve published 50 articles by 18 different writers with 14,000 views. Not a bad start. But just a start. We look forward to bringing you more great articles going forward.
Here are some of our favorite articles. If you haven’t read all of them, this is your chance to catch-up.
私たちのお勧めの記事です。まだ読んでいないものがあったら、ぜひチェックしてみてください。
- Death by Fugu by Jason Adamson
- My First and Only Omiai by rebecca copeland
- You Can’t Have Ramen Without Gyoza by bakagaijin (Bart Emanuel)
- How to Pick the Perfect Vintage Kimono by Shannon Shea Greene
- Japan’s Ubiquitous Convenience Stores Are the Pride of the Nation by Kazuya Hirai
- Karoshi Has Replaced Kamikazes and Not Just in Japan by Courtney Kirschbaum
- Teaching Sustainability and Mottainai in Japan by Kyoko Nagano
- The Cost of Modernization Borne By the Women of Japan by Kristine Ohkubo
- Finding my Bambi and Thumber in Japan by Karen Farrah Oswald
- The 7 Kansai-Ben Words Every Japanese Learner Needs to Know by DC Palter
- A White Guy’s Love Letter to Tokyo by Alex Steullet
- Don’t Marry Tim, He’s an @$$#%&^! by Timothy Sullivan
- Finding My Voice as a Japanese Woman — Why Hello Kitty Needs a Mouth by Yuko Tamura
- Five Things about Japan I Didn’t Fully Appreciate until I Lived There by Alvin T.
- The Underwear of Japanese Oni by Wachwurd
The reason we devote our time to building this publication is to bring to the world articles like these. We hope you enjoyed them as much as we did. We couldn’t be prouder of these articles.
To our writers and our readers, どうも有り難うございます！
これからもJaponicaをどうぞよろしくお願いいたします。
Yuko Tamura & DC Palter
Japonica Editors-in-Chief
