My blog reached one million hits yesterday! Thank you very much for visiting my blog…and I hope you’ll leave a comment often! The best part of having a blog is the feedback from visitors…so feel free to comment on any of my posts (recent ones, as well as old ones).
My blog averages about 1,500 hits a day. But the day with most traffic was just after the 2011 March 11 earthquake / tsunami in Sendai. My blog had 10,007 hits on that single day.
Just how big of a number is one million?
One million hours is over 114 years,
one million miles is more than four times the distance from the earth to the moon,
and
one million people is the approximate population of Sendai, Japan.
One million dots (each block in the picture has 10,000 dots!) ...(picture is from "schools.etacuisenaire.com")
Tokyo Five 
1000000
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Well…it’s over 2.6 million now.
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ahh, I didn’t mean to belittle a teachers work, oh no, what I mean is that I’m a game designer so for me a teaching job is not the path I want to be on, I would have only been using it so I could THEN move onto a game design path.
I do however have an english teaching qualification, but my heart wouldn’t be 100% in the job.
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>I do however have an english teaching qualification
You got a teaching license but you don’t want to be a teacher?
>my heart wouldn’t be 100% in the job.
I guess teachers who do well in that profession are the ones who love teaching.
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>the ones more about ‘life in Japan’ (especially the events) that are interesting, some of the ones about anniversaries of American Food chains aren’t particularly interesting
OK, thanks for the feedback.
>As someone who’s very interested in Yokai (Japanese monsters), I’d like more Yokai related posts
I like monsters too. So, coincidentally, the post I wrote today is about a monster anime.
The post is here:
>I was recently offered a position (in Japan)
In Tokyo? What type of job?
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Ahh, it was in Yokohama, it was just a teaching job, but I mostly applied for it just so that I could then be IN japan and begin applying for more game design related jobs.
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>in Yokohama
It’s a nice area.
>it was just a teaching job
Nothing wrong with an English teaching job. Teachers who are serious about the job really help their students learn, I think.
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Congratulations, I think I’ve only posted around 5 times in the past, chopping and changing between posting from my twitter and posting from the usual form, I’ve so far read around 90% of your posts, some of them are better the otheres (though I suppose thats really just because of my interests), but its a great blog and I look forward to every post each week.
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>I’ve so far read around 90% of your posts
Thanks! By all means, comment often.
>some of them are better the otheres
Which ones, for example, do you like and which do you find less interesting?
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ahh, for me its probably the ones more about ‘life in Japan’ (especially the events) that are interesting, some of the ones about anniversaries of American Food chains aren’t particularly interesting for me personally, I can see the effect that it has on Japanese culture, but its not for me.
As someone who’s very interested in Yokai, I’d like more Yokai related posts (though it would be rather random..)
I comment every now and then, I don’t see much point in commenting with something as basic as ‘nice post’, so I generally comment when its a subject I have quite a bit to say about, something that’s more likely to strike up a discussion, as opposed to a lone comment with little substance.
As a side note, I mentioned to you before that i was job hunting in Japan, I was recently offered a position, however I decided to decline as I wanted to continue working on my independent games along with staying with my girlfriend (now fiancé).
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Congratz!
If you want to see the new musicvideo I produced for one of the hottest upcoming Swedish metal bands with twin guitar shredders and vocals. Visit my blog
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Did you produce that video? Excellent! And the band sounds good too. What’s the band’s name?
Your blog looks interesting…too bad I can’t read it. 😦
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The last time I googled Tokyo5, I saw a clothing store by that name. I haven’t googled it since then, so don’t know if it still exists. But, hey, CONGRATULATIONS, THAT IS A MILESTONE.
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>a clothing store by that name
Yes, I know about the “Tokyo Five” clothing label. And there’s a pop-band named “Tokyo Five” also.
Neither the clothing company nor the music band are in Tokyo…so I wonder why they chose that name.
I wrote a post about it:
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Congratulations on this milestone. I have been following your blog for several years now, and continue to follow it even after I left Japan to come home to Canada.
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Thanks. I check your blog often too.
You still write about Japan even though you no longer live here!
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Congrats!
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Thank you.
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Congrat! 1500 hit per day is amazing although you post one or two per week.
I need to learn from your blog. 🙂
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>1500 hit per day…although you post (only) one or two per week.
I know. I wonder how many hits I’d get if I was able to write a new post even more often.
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Wow! Congratulations! That is fantastic!!! I’m a long way off from that.
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Thanks.
And thanks for visiting my blog often.
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That’s a lot of hits. Good job.
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>That’s a lot of hits.
Yes. I was surprised how many visitors my site gets nowadays.
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CONGRATZ!!! Long time no see eh?
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>CONGRATZ!!!
Thanks.
>Long time no see eh?
Yeah. Have you abandoned your blog?
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I wouldn’t say abandoned, but I either don’t have time to use it because of school or I am pre-occupied with something else.
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Well, I look forward to your next post.
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I have a list of things I have been wanting to post, so we will see when I am not busy and I get off my lazy butt to do it 😛
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>don’t have time to use it because of school
Well, that’s more important.
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CONGRATULATIONS TOKYO FIVE! May you have “millions more” like this! 🙂
– Stone
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Thanks.
You comment on my site often and I appreciate it.
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