My first trip to Japan is only a few hours away now after years of planning. Due to the support of family, friends and my awesome readers I am finally about to achieve a dream I’ve had for a loooooong time. I’d like to share that dream with everyone, whether you have been to Japan already...

Unbelievably, I can now say that my trip to Japan is less than 20 days away. Since beginning the countdown I though time would have slowed down but instead it has been he opposite and now Sept 4th is closing in fast! I have been “trying” to pin down something that resembles an itinerary for...

The light at the end of the tunnel is now in my face, the finish line is in sight and the goal is within touching distance. I just have endure five (looong) weeks before I jet off to Japan for 21 days. All the boxes listed in my previous update on Operation Visit Japan have been ticked. Japan visa, US...

My J-Blogger pal Ree-san introduced me to an interesting blogging meme started by Tripbase called called My 7 Links where bloggers share seven links in a variety of categories such as most “beautiful post” and “surprisingly successful post”. Ree-san’s 7 links entry was...

The gamer in me gets giddy each year as I look forward to then be super unproductive during E3. My prolonged stay in the gaming wilderness continues as it’s sad I have yet to play one single game I raved about at last year’s E3. This is mainly because of my saving for Japan and a myriad of...

Hello guys and girls. Jamaipanese.com has for five years been my personal blog where I blog about my love for Japan and Life in Jamaica. Over the years it has evolved and matured as much as I have. Without its readers Jamaipanese.com wouldn’t have survived for this long and this is why I am always...

Just over fifteen months ago on January 18th, 2010 I announced a plan that would see me starting to take some important steps that would allow me to visit Japan in the Summer of 2011. I named the plan Operation Visit Japan and it focused on the financial challenge visiting Japan is for someone like me....

Over the months that Operation Visit Japan has be underway I have gone from feeling tingly inside, to bouncing around in my chair to now wanting to do adrenaline fuel somersaults. Its that time again to write up an update on how the savings are going for Operation Visit Japan and now I can breathe...

Tweaking and changing things on Jamaipanese.com is a never-ending process especially since converting to WordPress so many moons ago. I haven’t done such drastic changes in a while nor have I updated much on what I have been doing or done for quite a while so why not do so today? ^_^. Check...

For about 10 years now I have had a great interest in all things Japanese and about five and a half years ago I started studying Japanese at a local private school and a few months later decided to create a place online where I can share my interests and get help with my study of the Japanese language....