Another milestone: 5000+ pageviews for the first 29 days of March. Time for another round of Thanks!

Thanks ありがとう Thanks ありがとう Thanks ありがとう Thanks ありがとう Thanks ありがとう 

I wonder though if it's still possible to beat 6,000 this month. Anyhow, I'll keep the posts comin' so stay tuned. Thanks again!

あっ、すごい！ありがとう！

I broke 3,000 pageviews last November, and for some reason, it slumped to under 2,900 in December. But for January, we're back on the trendline, baby! Thanks to one and all for coming, reading, commenting, and sharing! Please continue to spread the word. :)

Thanks! Again!

Screen capture taken last October 29.

It's another record month - my best month yet. Thanks to all of you for visiting and for coming back again and again! My pageviews have risen month-over-month since around June this year, to over 2,500 pageviews for October 2012. Prior to June, I've had an average of only around 400 pageviews per month since I started blogging my Japan 2.0 experience in April 2010. Wow. Thank you all, once again!

If you can see from the stats above, many of my visitors came by way of the Japan Blog List. Welcome to all of you who clicked through JBL. If you haven't yet heard of JBL, go over there now and find out more blogs about Japan. It's at http://www.japanbloglist.com/.

For your entertainment while you're in Japan, please do also check out my 2nd most popular blog, RAW (ronjie.com around the web), at http://ronjie-raw.blogspot.com/.

You can also read through my Japan 1.0 experience from way back in April 2005, if you're interested. Links to the archived articles are below, but for a bit of nostalgia, you can check out how my blog looked like back in 2005 at http://ronjie-japan2005.blogspot.com/.

どうもありがとうございました！

UPDATE: The final tally was 2,653 pageviews for October 2012. Sugoi!

carbonaramara

I will now really officially stop blogging here regularly.

That is, unless yet another new chapter in my life here in Japan begins anew. :-D  If there would be one, it won't be until two years after, so yes, I'm really stopping blogging now.

I will still post a few on occasion though to catch up on some blog backlogs, or if there is really something very interesting or something very pressing that begs to be shared to you all. I have quite a long list but unfortunately I am still too busy to edit and post them all online soon.

I also plan to split up the recent two blog posts (Welcome to Japan, Parts 1 and 2) into more manageable parts, for easier reference for the rest of the world who are coming to Japan to live or to visit.

In any case, for your Life-in-Japan entertainment, The Japan! Japan! Blog officially endorses carbonaramara - my wife's blog - which has now started to document our life together here in Japan while I start to become busy with my research work and dissertation.

From 67 posts in 2005, 164 posts in 2010, to almost 240 posts totally; we wish 33% of our readers in the US, 30% in Japan, 20% from the Philippines, and the rest from Germany, South Korea, Canada, Russia, France, the UK, and Argentina, that you have all been entertained by the light and funny moments and the occasional drama, and by Japan's awesomeness.

It was certainly a blast!  Thank you, one and all.