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10 Android Apps that made my Japan trip much easier

Traveling to to a far away land or even to an unfamiliar neighbouring town is not as difficult or daunting as it used to be. With a wealth of information available online and at your fingertips in the form of apps for smartphones and tablets traveling is now a less chaotic affair if you use the tools...
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Interesting Fall 2011 Anime

Forgive me, I have not been a good anime fan lately and I have hardly been watching any new shows. Of the interesting Summer 2011 anime I listed I have only watched a couple episodes of of Blood-C. I am not sure if it’s a lack of time or  that the recent series have not been interesting enough...
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10 things I miss about Japan

While visiting Japan I did my best to immerse myself for the few weeks I was there, experiencing a little of everything and enjoying most of it. I visited various places, ate various foods and met a lot of persons but now that I am back in Jamaica there are certain experiences or things I miss about...
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Interesting Summer 2011 Anime

I am very late onto the anime wagon for the new Summer 2011 series. At the time of this post I have yet to watch any episode of any of the new series and other than the X-Men anime I still have some catching up to do with some of the series I had been watching from my Spring 2011 anime list and even...
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My 7 Links – Jamaipanese.com all in one post

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...
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Post E3 2011: 7 Games that Impressed me

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...
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Interesting Spring 2011 Anime

Spring is upon us and a very good line-up of new anime series have or will be premiering. A usual I have taken a look at the trailers, the plot synopsis and done a little research on most of the series debuting and the ones below have caught my eye. I’ll be checking them out and one or two of them...
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Jamaicans are cooler than Japanese!

Yes, you read right, but I wasn’t the one who unscientifically stated that it was the guys over at CNNGo a special online magazine type website that focuses on major Asian cities. CNNGo writer Barry Neild decided to go global and decide the world’s coolest nationalities. A few nationalities...
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My Most Anticipated Video Games of 2011

2010 was the year I slipped off the gaming radar, other than a short stint playing the single player mode of Starcraft II and a few sittings of  not so popular games like Mount and Blade Warband I spent most of the year playing Football titles like FIFA Word Cup and FIFA 2011 or multi-player first...
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The Best of Jamaipanese.com from 2010

Happy New Year everyone, I hope this year will be a good one for you and your family. I hereby selfishly give this year a second name – “The Year of Japan” because in 6-9 months I’ll be visiting the land of the rising sun! I thank all my readers again for their continued support...
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