Japan’s No.1 blogger declared to stop her blog

Famous actress Chinatsu Wakatsuki, age 23, whose weblog boasts over 80 million page views per month, announced an end of her blog yesterday.

Chinatsu Wakatsuki blog

Last month she once implied about her blog’s end and caused a lot of reactions from her readers and media, which ended up to her apology for confusion, but it became real this time. Real reasons to retirement are not actually disclosed on her last post. She wrote it is not her retirement from show business, but only stops blogging “to do something else”.

Ameba blog’s celebrities section is providing blog hosting to over 1,100 Japanese celebrities, and gets 450 million page views per month. Although their free blog hosting service is not the most popular one for regular bloggers, CyberAgent has been leading to other Cocolog, Yaplog, livedoor blog, etc in this (probably) most influencial category.

Those blog system providers(such like bloggers.com and typepad.com in US) often buys popular celebtiries bloggers out of others. Officially, those companies earns from advertisement on the blogs. Since some top celebrities bloggers recommendations let apparel and cosmetic products sold out nationwide, there are rumors of hidden pay-per-post-like activities behind.

Relatively speaking, Japanese Internet users tend to follow mass media’s influences, TV, newspapers and magazines. The web is not an alternative but a cooperator/supplement. For example, Agile Media Network(AMN), bloggers network advertising agency such like Federated Media, keeps opinionated A-listers in Japanese blogosphere. However, even the top blogger from AMN earns couple of million page views per month at most.

[disclaimer] Akky AKIMOTO belongs to AMN network with his tech-blog as a pro-blogger working for Cybozu Labs in his daytime job.

See also:

Chinatsu Wakatsuki’s weblog [J]

Ameba Blog [J]

CyberAgent [J]

Agile Media Networks


No Responses to “Japan’s No.1 blogger declared to stop her blog”

  1. links from Technorati# Asiajinreportsthat Wakatsuki Chinatsu, Japan’s top blogger, who in late November declared that she would take a break from blogging only to change her mind [ja] shortly thereafter, has decided to call it quits for real this time.

  2. links from Technorati# Asiajinreportsthat Wakatsuki Chinatsu, Japan’s top blogger, who in late November declared that she would take a break from blogging only to change her mind [ja] shortly thereafter, has decided to call it quits for real this time.

  3. links from Technorati# Asiajinreportsthat Wakatsuki Chinatsu, Japan’s top blogger, who in late November declared that she would take a break from blogging only to change her mind [ja] shortly thereafter, has decided to call it quits for real this time.

  4. links from Technoratiup to her apology for confusion, but it became real this time. Real reasons to retirement are not actually disclosed on her last post. She wrote it is not her retirement from show business, but only stops blogging “to do something else”. ——Asiajin: Japan’s No.1 blogger declared to stop her blog人家问我为何能不断地写blog,难道没想过退出吗?我确实没想过。现在我还是学生,既然花了那么多时间上网,就顺便写个blog。虽然blog不能做我的active income,不过还是能做passive

  5. links from Technoratishin akky 僕の方は、 若槻千夏ブログ停止の大ニュースをAsiajinに書いて、 そのあとはずっと止まっていたsymfony解説本symfonyxPHPを動かしながらなんとか終わりまで読了。 [IMG ] symfony×PHP [LLフレームワークBooks] (LLフレームワークBOOKS # 3)

  6. links from Technoratibut suspect that Tina saw what XiaXue was able to accomplish via blogging, and kicked it up a buncha notches! [IMG ]First place was to have been a tie, but now the top spot belongs to Chinese actress Xu Jinglei. The competition pulled out: Asiajinreportsthat Wakatsuki Chinatsu, Japan’s top blogger, who in late November declared that she would take a break from blogging only to change her mind [ja] shortly thereafter, has decided to call it quits for real this time.

  7. links from TechnoratiAsiajin reports many Japanese web services, recent web culture, companies and so. Asiajin’s recent entries are… Nounai-Maker: depicts what your brain is composed of | Asiajin Nounai-Maker is a joke web site.Japan’s No.1 blogger declared to stop her blog | AsiajinThe episode of Japanese entertainer’s blog. Toughbook: Japan’s favorite notebook | Asiajin The notebook pc is ‘Let’s Note’. Mobile phone companies to filter web content for minors | Asiajin A Japanese large website, the Mobage-town (mobile game

  8. links from TechnoratiShe would have (should have?) been #1 on this countdown, but Wakatsuki Chinatsu, Japan’s top blogger, who in late November declared that she would take a break from blogging only to change her mind [ja] shortly thereafter, has decided tocall it quitsfor real this time. As we welcome in the New Year, here are the girls leading the blogosphere! Ten amazing ladies to keep your eye on! They’re HOT for reasons other than looks: they’ve got BRAINS and they KNOW what to write that appeals to the

  9. links from Technorati若槻千夏のブログ『マーボー豆腐は飲み物です』 Powered by アメブロ (”Wakatsuki Chinatsu no burogu 『Maaboudoufu wa nomimono desu』 Powered by Ameburo”) Official blog of Japanese TV personality Wakatsuki Chinatsu whogave up blogging recently1,534 links 14. MOON PHASE 雑記 (”MOON PHASE gikki”) Otaku blog 1,314 links 15. 眞鍋かをりのココだけの話 powered by ココログ (”Manabe Kaori no koko dake no hanashi powered by Kokorogu”)

  10. links from TechnoratiShe would have (should have?) been #1 on this countdown, but Wakatsuki Chinatsu, Japan’s top blogger, who in late November declared that she would take a break from blogging only to change her mind [ja] shortly thereafter, has decided tocall it quits[...]

Discussion Area - Leave a Comment

You must be logged in to post a comment.