About

Jamaipanese.com is the personal blog of Kirk Brown, a young Jamaican male who has a great interest in Japan and its people for various reasons. I have never visited Japan but if Operation Visit Japan is a success I am looking forward to visiting in mid 2011. “Jamaipanese” is a candid portmanteau of the words JAMAIcan and JaPANESE hence I call myself and my blog Jamai + Panese or Jamaipanese.

Topics I blog about

I blog about about topics related to my life in Jamaica, my love for Japan as well as any topics that I am interested in. Some topics I blog about include anime, Japanese dramas, Japanese language study, anime figures, photography, music, video games, movies, technology, science and sports.

About Kirk

I graduated from Calabar High School in 2001 wasted a year partying and doing other unscrupulous activities at Excelsior Community College and now I’ve been working for the Jamaican Government in the Ministry of Justice for 7 years working at 1% of my potential doing a computer related job.

I spend a lot of time watching anime, Japanese dramas, taking pictures and playing video games. I soon realized many years ago that most of my interests (anime, science, video games, cars, Godzilla ^_^, technology etc), originate from or are heavily influenced by a then mostly unknown (to me) pacific island chain called Japan. Like the typical Jamaican I though to myself, isn’t that a part of China? Fortunately I love reading and so I educated myself about Japan on everything from Geisha to WWII to Nintendo to the language, this learning process is still ongoing and I discover and learn new things almost daily.

Business Endeavours

I have started my own internet media company called Heatray Media which is still going through it’s teething stages now but I am looking forward to enjoying some level of financial independence which my current entry level job doesn’t allow while furthering my education. The main website under the Heatray Media banner is Jamaicapage.com – a magazine style website that focuses on positive news and information related to Jamaica and Jamaicans.

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