I should have posted this this morning since the sale will end some time tomorrow, but all of the Kanji de Manga books are 40% off for our Super Suiyoubi sale. (Today being Wednesday)
Manga University produces cute, little books teaching kana, kanji and Japanese culture through manga - Japanese comics. Their Kanji de Manga [...]

I read an interesting article today about Green Tea. Some Israeli scientists have linked green tea to brain regeneration. In mice with Parkinson’s, doses of green tea extract not only slowed the deterioration, but also regenerated damaged neurons in the brain.
I remember being told in school brain cells cannot regenerate after being damaged. [...]

Yumi and I have pretty much decided to sell our house (a couple of days ago) and buy a bigger house. We have absolutely no room any more - especially with our business and Makoto too. So, I will take a little vacation from 1nichi1kai this month. I will probably post a [...]

Technorati is a site that categorizes and ranks millions of blogs. I’ve been watching this blog’s progress closely. A little over a month ago our ranking (among all other blogs ranked by Technorati, was a whopping 1,357,685. That means 1,357,684 other blogs are more popular than this one. Amazingly [...]

I have spent several weeks reading up and playing with Drupal, the new Content Management Software (CMS) we are looking at for www.TheJapanesePage.com.

I’ve spent weeks and I am just now starting to feel like I understand how it works - on a very basic level. I am used to simple to admin CMSes. [...]

I almost forgot to wish everyone a happy Fourth! Even if you are not American, take a moment to celebrate America’s independence and subsequent experiment in freedom and liberty for and by the people (to paraphrase Lincoln).
First, do what most Americans have never done - spend five minutes actually reading the Declaration of Independence. [...]

At TJP.com we have an email list for the Japanese Language Proficiency Test Level 3 and one for 4 (the easiest).  It sends out one kanji a day by email with meanings, readings and example sentences.
Well, the server had trouble three days ago and stopped sending the emails BUT it continued to update everyone’s [...]

My eyes are tired.  I worked until midnight and all morning tweaking Ichinichi Ikkai.
In order to retire early, I added a nifty one-line Google ad bar at the top and a search box to the right for the web, TJP.com and this site.
Next, I added a subscribe feed link to the right there.  This way [...]

You may think the name of this blog, Ichinichi Ikkai, was me setting the lofty goal of writing one post a day, but that wasn’t my first intention. Originally I had the idea to make this site a kind of blog/sale site for TheJapanShop.com where I would post a ‘hidden’ sale a day here [...]

The only paper newspaper I take is the weekly  edition of Investors Business Daily.  It is an awesome newspaper with a quick snapshot of business and international news.   I get most of the everyday news on TV or through the regular news sites online, however IBD always seems to fill in the blanks.  If you [...]