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Weird Japan - July Matsuri
Posted by Michael 367 days ago in Culture
The July 2009 Summer Matsuri - Weird Japan. Over 30 incredible articles submitted! Enjoy ^_^
 

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Written by supremenothing, 367 days ago.
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Great turnout on the matsuri, and great job hosting this, Mr. Gakuranman!

Looks like a fun read, and remarkably free of the usual "wacky Japan" cliches that first come to mind. I'll be reading the whole thing!
Written by Billy, 366 days ago.
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Nicely done Michael.
Written by headingforjapan, 366 days ago.
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yeh, it was a great list, and thanks again for including me, haha!
Written by kuroshirohaiiro, 366 days ago.
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Fantastic articles! Best hosting for Japan Blog Matsuri EVER!...


PS: Nice rule breaking by Koichi (*nudge**nudge*)
Written by mcalpine, 366 days ago.
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Awesome layout.
Written by Envoy, 366 days ago.
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Gakuraman! Gakuraman! Gakuraman!
Written by Michael, 366 days ago.
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Thanks all. The layout was a pain to make, so I'm glad it went down well ^^
Written by mokudekiru, 366 days ago.
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Yaaaaay I'm excited about this one :) Turned out really great, and thanks for including me! Looking forward to reading through the rest I haven't gotten to yet.
Written by spamfromjapan, 365 days ago.
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Thanks for including me! I have a lot to read now.

(Anyone else think it's strange there're over thirty posts and 'only' 26 socs? Or is it just me?)
Written by shibuya246, 365 days ago.
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An extra 4 socs when you already have 26 isnt going to help much. What you really want are 30 DIGGS and 30 REDDITS to fire it up outside of the JBlogger community as well.

JapanSoc is a great way to bring your post to others attention once they are looking for something about Japan.

Reddit and Digg and StumbleUpon etc are great to reach an audience which may not be focused on Japan and therefore don't regularly use JapanSoc.

If you have 30 people then you can make a good impact on reddit.com (They also encourage weird titles)
Written by Nick, 365 days ago.
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If you're curious how close this is to the most soc'd posts ever, check out the *all-time* list: http://www.japansoc.com/published/alltime/ :-D
Written by spamfromjapan, 365 days ago.
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I just figured that if you won't soc a post that links to your own stuff... :P
Thanks for the link/responses.
Written by Michael, 365 days ago.
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It's on Digg and Stumbleupon if you guys want to get cracking ;)
http://www.stumbleupon.com/s/#2zCM5n/gakuranman.com/weird-things-about-japan//topic:Japan

http://digg.com/d3ymXt
Written by shibuya246, 365 days ago.
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Have added it to reddit as well
http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/95hk1/weird_and_wacky_in_japan/
Written by Michael, 362 days ago.
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It's now the most Soc-d post of all time! Awesome ^^
Written by Jordan, 362 days ago.
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Yeah, because you paid all of us to soc it! I'm still waiting for my check!
Written by Alex, 362 days ago.
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I Soc-d it under duress.
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