Okay, people blogging about their visits to Japan is maybe a sub-sub set of blogging, but this one is a little different. Lots of pictures, from the POV of a college student whose specialty is East Asian Culture and Videogames, and a direct line into the Global Monitoring Network of the "News!Views!Schmooze!" World Headquarters. Click on the green logo below to go directly there now:
Here -- next to a picture of Jonathan with his Japanese parents -- is his blurb about his blog:
"When I first figured out the Mario Bros. came from Japan, I started studying the culture -- and from then on I was hooked. After learning the language and going abroad with AFS during the summer of 2002, I've tried to keep up with the latest coming out of the Land of the Rising Sun.
Recently, I was among the first six to ever be accepted to study for the new USC Interactive Entertainment major. I decided to kick things off (and finish off my East Asian Area Studies major) by researching gender parity in gaming: namely, why it is that gaming is so much more acceptable for females in Asia than it is here in the states?
So keep an eye on my blog, and I'll try to catalogue many, many (mis)adventures attempting to become a Tokyo urbanite."
Jonathan Zabel in Japan -- check it out. I can assure you that the fact that he's my son has absolutely nothing at all to do with this endorsement. In fact, how could you even think that?!
On the forgotten futurist videogame blog...
Sayonara for now!
