Japan In Toronto Is Looking For New Contributors

A contributor is someone who will write new posts (author), help translate English to Japanese or Japanese to English from authors who are more proficient in one language than the other (editor), or someone who provides information, ideas, or research on things Japanese related to Toronto (associate).
As you can see, of late, this blog has [...]

Japan’s Camino to perform in Toronto November 14 – 15 ~*~ 日本のカミノはトロントでライブです14日-15日11月

J-rock North Promotions Inc, a Toronto-based promotions company, will be holding a concert in conjunction with Avex Group Holdings Inc. and Tearbridge Production, Friday November 14, 2008 at the Great Hall in Toronto, Canada.
Avex J-rock band, Camino, will be performing alongside American band Artbeat and Canadian band Niverse.

Camino is well known in Japan for performing [...]

よろしくお願いします has no formal English equivilant

よろしくお願いします (よろしくおねがいします) yoroshiku onegaishimasu
As a native English speaker, this phrase has been the hardest to understand in my meager 3 years of studying the Japanese language. I’ve asked numerous native Japanese speakers to explain it to me. I’ve gotten numerous responses. It means ‘Nice to meet you!’ they say, or can be used when parting like ‘Kind [...]