Anime Character carved out of Wood

Having miniature figurines of your favourite anime and manga characters is so yesterday. A masked Japanese chainsaw wielder ha

EduFire SuperPass Giveaway

Edufire is a very useful website that allows live learning to take place over the internet at anytime from anywhere. It is the

Japan to Launch Cargo Ship into Space

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency is getting ready to launch it’s first unmanned spacecraft. The HTV-1 cargo ship i

Mecha Legs or Boot Legs?

It’s Sunday I refuse to be bored and so I’m experimenting with some table top photography. I wrote a teaser blog p

Tokyo Game Show 2009 Information

The 2009 staging of Japan’s Tokyo Game Show will be held from September 24 – 27 at Makuhari Messe Hall in Chiba Pr

Tokyo! Movie – Urban Life on Steroids

Since watching the trailer for Tokyo! in February I wroteΒ  Tokyo! Preview post stating my aim to be able to see this film. Fo

Arios Gundam Figure

Arios arrived with Cherudim over a month ago and can be seen in the test video I made of my room a while back. After Seravee,

Japanese man builds Giant Robot Beetle

Ibaraki Prefecture in Japan is known as the birthplace of natto, many castle ruins, lakes and martial arts. Recently there is

Jamaica Dominates World Champs in Berlin

It seems Jamaica’s performance on the track last year at the Olympic Games in Beijing was only a hint of things to come

Gurren Lagann – Anime Review

Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann is an awesome futuristic high action mecha themed action anime. I have always wanted to watch this

Jamaipanese.com on Facebook

Facebook and Twitter are the two current social networking darlings. I am more active with Twitter and wrote a post a couple m

Hashima Island Documentary

For almost 100 years the coal mines on Hashima Island off the coast of Nagasaki Prefecture played an important role in the dev

Introducing Usain Bolt’s new “Bolt Arms”

The 12th IAAF World Championships in Athletics begins in Berlin Germany tomorrow and runs through until August 2009. A lot has

Japan is 2009 World Cosplay Champions

The 2009 World Cosplay Summit was staged from August 1st to 3rd 2009. Thousands of cosplayers and fans of cosplaying decended

Yokohama Reggae Festival 2009 Info

Jamaican culture, especially Jamaican music is popular in Japan. The yearly One Love Jamaica Festival in Tokyo is a big attrac

Coming soon to a Jamaipanese near you

Faster than a speeding claymore more powerful than a shrine maiden able to leap a life sized RX-78-2 in a single bound. [clown

Cherudim Gundam Figure

Gundam figure number 8 arrived a few weeks ago and after a few sittings I finally managed to complete it. Why did it take so l

Japan an Illustrated History – Book Review

A couple weeks ago I bought a couple books to help me in my quest to rediscover my reading mojo. I have been diligently keepin

The Bird and The Bee – Love Letter to Japan

I music track that I have been listening to over and over lately isΒ  “Love Letter to Japan” by The Bird and The B

Gundam Big Expo Information

Celebrations, and activities to mark the 30th anniversary of n continue. In a few days biggest and most important event will b

Needless – First Impressions

Needless is the second anime off my interesting summer 2009 anime watchlist. It was chosen purely because of my post apocalypt

This is Japan! by Eric Testroete

If you are reading this you probably agree with me that Japan is a fascinating country. I got interested in Japan many years a

Iron Man & Wolverine Anime Trailers

Iron Man and Wolverine are super popular comic creations from Marvel. Each have featured in various forms of media and merchan

NihongoUp Contest Winners

A big thank you to everyone who took the time to enter the NihongoUp giveaway contest I have been hosting for the past 2 weeks