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Japanese equivalents of popular western websites - thegeezer3 - 2007-06-01
I didnt want to muddle the resources sticky so im posting here. Does anyone know of the japanese counterparts to western websites?
for example as far as i know a year ago myspace was only in the west. Japans answer is mixi.jp
I really want to switch from using digg, facebook, livefm etc to japanese equivalents and im sure japan has some really cool website formats that dont exist in the west.
Its just another way to read native japanese and rikaichan makes it so much easier than reading a paper or magazine and manually looking up.
Perhaps a sticky on the best japanese websites beyond the newspaper sites etc would be good. Ill start googling and see if i can find some intereting sites and post them here.
This one looks promising - its a blog ranking site and appears to be quite popular and is split into topics
http://blog.with2.net/
heres one for podcast rankings (yomuris podcasts are featured here - a lot of "learn english" stuff though.
http://podcastnavi.com/videocast/channel.php?channel_id=1832
ill ask a few japanese friends - ones a web designer so maybe she'll be into the whole japanese web 2 phenomena.
njyane
Japanese equivalents of popular western websites - foobar - 2007-06-02
Wikipedia
Slashdot
Digg-like "social news" sites
Engadget
Gizmodo
Wired
CNET
ZDNet
Gamespot
もごもご (similar to Twitter)
2chan
DMOZ
Yahoo Directory
To find more, try the japanese versions of Google, DMOZ (or other site directory like Yahoo), and Wikipedia. "Digg" on the japanese Wikipedia led to ソーシャルニュース and ソーシャルブックマーク, each listing many Digg and del.icio.us -type sites. And these sites also link to lots of other news sites, blogs, tech sites, etc.
Check the sites you already visit to see if they have a japanese version. Look for links or images of country flags near the top and bottom of pages. Sometimes there will be a japanese equivalent on the .jp or .co.jp domain, so you might check that as well.
Once you find one it's easy to find many more sites from what they link. Check the offsite domains linked to and also look in the footers and sidebars for more links.
Japanese equivalents of popular western websites - ファブリス - 2007-06-02
Google サジェスト (Google Suggest)
Japanese equivalents of popular western websites - hella - 2007-06-05
Japanese equivalence of youtube
watchme.tv
ask.jp video
AmebaVision
agesage
ClipLife
Not really sure if they are popular though...