Craigslist now in Japan

[Steve Bildermann]

If you like and have used Craigslist before then you'll be glad to know it's now up for Tokyo (let me know when it gets to Nagoya) Content seems abit thin at the moment but it'll improve if we spread the word.

http://tokyo.craigslist.org/

Q: What is craigslist?
A: craigslist is a network of local community bulletin boards, where millions of people connect each month for everyday stuff - like jobs, housing, goods & services, romance, events, friendships, and advice.

Q: How was craigslist founded?
A: In early 1995, by Craig Newmark, in San Francisco, CA

Facts about craigslist

[FG Lurker]

Thanks for the heads up Steve!! Changed "tokyo" for "osaka" in the url and it looks like the Osaka site is up too:

http://osaka.craigslist.org/

[Taro Toporific]

However, it seems that CraigList New York has the mega-kooler Japanese jobs.

Japanese Content Translator and Site Producer
Reply to: img-resume@imgworld.com
Date: 2005-01-11, 3:30PM EST
CraigList New York

Overall Purpose:

Reporting to the Production Manager, the Japanese content translator and producer is responsible for translating all English content into common-Japanese and then entering the content into a Content Management system to be published to a major sports website.....
...more...

[tatsujin]

Wow, I've never heard of this site, its amazing how many little gems are out there waiting to be uncovered

[Taro Toporific]

Wow, I've never heard of this site, its amazing how many little gems are out there waiting to be uncovered

Bukkake - 29
tokyo.craigslist.org
Date: 2005-01-04, 7:16AM JST
"I have recently heard about bukkake and wanted to know if any of you
have some stories or advice to give me about it. I would like to get
someone to invite to bukkake in California."

<OR>
Women Seeking Women

[FG Lurker]

The Best Of Craigslist...

http://craigslist.org/about/best/

A sampling, from the top item on the "Best Of" list:

Any Furries out there?

Maybe not all of you know what a furry is...since DC is a very open-minded and diverse place, I'll go ahead and tell you, maybe there's some fine furry out there who just doesn't know his kink yet! We're a group (some call us a subculture) of people who get off by dressing up in animal costumes, then we have crazy furry fun lovin' time! (Yes, my panda suit is crotchless, please make sure your suit is too!)

[...]

Are there any parks or recreation areas around here with lots of trees? I'd really like to dress up and run around in the woods...that's something I never got to do in Phoenix.

Serious replies only. This is not a joke.

Uhhh, yah.

[Mulboyne]

NYT/IHT: Craigslist Circles the Globe With Online Classifieds, One City at a Time
Craigslist was started 10 years ago by Craig Newmark, an Internet pioneer in San Francisco, as a way of keeping friends up to date on events in the Bay Area. It spread through the United States before going international in 2003, with sites in London and Toronto. The expansion accelerated in late 2004 with a flurry of sites, including ones for Paris, Berlin, Tokyo and Sydney. About a dozen other international start-ups are planned in the next few months.
...Though the international Craigslist sites are available only in English for now, the formula seems to be catching on, if more modestly than in the United States. The London site attracts more than 150,000 unique visitors each month, Mr. Buckmaster said. The Paris site, begun in November, already draws 50,000 unique visitors monthly. Other recently added sites, including Amsterdam, Dublin, São Paulo, Brazil, and Bangalore, India, have drawn slightly less traffic.
... "It's got to scare anyone who takes money for advertising," said Jim Townsend, the editorial director in Houston of Classified Intelligence, a consulting firm. In the San Francisco area, Classified Intelligence estimates, Craigslist is costing newspapers $50 million to $65 million a year in lost revenue from employment ads alone; because other ads on Craigslist are free, it is hard to gauge the overall effect, Mr. Townsend said. Whether Craigslist will have a similar impact internationally is unclear, Mr. Townsend said. The fact that the sites are still available only in English could limit them to English-speaking expatriates in some cities. "It doesn't mean it can't work," Mr. Townsend said. Craigslist "might just have to try a little harder - or wait, which they can afford to do," he said.

[GomiGirl]

[katakori]

This is a mad world we live in.

A mad world where Nigerians would do EVRYTHING possible to get someone's address and try to scam them afterwards...

[Big Booger]

This is a mad world we live in.

A mad world where Nigerians would do EVRYTHING possible to get someone's address and try to scam them afterwards...

That's quite stereotypical. I surely hope you mean SOME Nigerians. It's strange that Nigeria would be the country to embrace scamming... I'd figure vanuatu or chad to be more scammerville..

SOME Nigerians have taken to scamming like a duck to water, and it leads to a view that all Nigerians are scammers.. so sad.

[katakori]

yes. some. i am certainly not an expert in Nigerians nor in scam.

it is interesting however that almost all 419 scam originate from Nigeria, that it was officially named after a section of the Nigerian penal code which addresses fraud schemes, and that everytime i heard about this kind of stories (or when i received the messages myself), they were always from Nigeria. i doubt they all come from the same guy.

[chorizo]

A friend of mine is already doing a similar site in Osaka: http://www.bikeclubosaka.com/index.php I've never used Craigslist before, but I've heard of it.

[den4]

I was expecting there'd be one for FG on the list....oh well....maybe they are not ready for that one yet..... LOL

[Socratesabroad]

It's strange that Nigeria would be the country to embrace scamming... I'd figure vanuatu or chad to be more scammerville..

I'd nominate Nauru:

No Island Is An Island.
Nauru is a tiny island, population 12,000, a third of the size of Manhattan, far from anywhere, yet at the center of several of the decade's biggest global events. Jack Hitt tells the untold story of this dot in the middle of the Pacific and its involvement in the bankrupting of the Russian economy, global terrorism, North Korean defectors, the end of the world, and the late 80's theatrical flop of a London musical based on the life of Leonardo da Vinci, called Leonardo, A Portrait of Love.
http://207.70.82.73/pages/descriptions/03/253.html

[Bucky]

From Craigslist Tokyo

V Seattle Guy Seeks Japanese Bride - 40 (Seattle)
Date: 2010-02-15, 6:07AM JT
Reply To This Post

Hi. I am a nice, fun loving single white American guy in Seattle looking for a sweet, cute Japanese girl to settle down with and live happily ever after. I am college educated, tall 188 cm, big 100 kg athletic, non smoker, love cold beer and hot coffee, many interests: boating, travel, arts, sports, outdoors, hunting and fishing, all music mostly rock or alternative. Get back and say hi!

Please write JPN-GRL in subject box so I can filter spam better.

This is a sincere ad and if interested please reply ASAP

Evidently he knows what turns J-chicks on: "love cold beer. . . . hunting and fishing. . . "

[Taro Toporific]

From Craigslist Tokyo Evidently he knows what turns J-chicks on: "love cold beer. . . . hunting and fishing. . . "

And no mention of his employment...

[Greji]

And no mention of his employment...

That's in the body of the ad: ".....seeking employed Japanese girl......"

[Christoff]

me think that JR could save a hell of a lot of money and eliminate the female only anti grab ass car if they did free ad's for the CL casual encounter/NSA section.

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

From Craigslist Tokyo


Evidently he knows what turns J-chicks on: "love cold beer. . . . hunting and fishing. . . "

I mis-read this at first....thought it said "fisting."

[Christoff]

it didnt/ they dont? damn it!!!

[Taro Toporific]

[floatl][/floatl]
I mis-read this at first....thought it said "fisting."

I bet that even "fisting" would have an attaction to many more Japanese females than hunting and fishing.

[omae mona]

Hey, don't knock fisting. It's even in vogue in the White House.

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

Hey, don't knock fisting. It's even in vogue in the White House.

8O8O

[BigInJapan]

Hey, don't knock fisting. It's even in vogue in the White House.

From the dialogue:
"They do a lot of touching, kissing, even fisting...
Couples really need to feel like they're physically bonded to one another..."