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When Japanese Bloggers Appeal To Osaka Moms

December 6, 2007 at 4:20 pm

Pity the poor, tame Japanese blogger.

We learn this from today’s Washington Post:

Blogging in Japan, though, is a far tamer beast than in the United States and the rest of the English-speaking world. Japan’s conformist culture has embraced a technology that Americans often use for abrasive self-promotion and refashioned it as a soothingly nonconfrontational medium for getting along.

Bloggers here shy away from politics and barbed language.

So, essentially, the Japanese blogger is weak-kneed, namby-pamby and adverse to engaging in online combat?

Here’s a potential solution, an idea to get them more edgy …