Japanese Blogging

This surprised me. Did you know that the Japanese language is the most dominant language used by bloggers? The graph below (done by Technorati) shows that Japanese is used in 37% of all blogs while English is used in 31%. Making this more surprising is that the population of the United States is 295,734,134 while the population of Japan is 127,417,244 which is a ratio of 2.3! And that is not counting other English speaking nations. But this could be skewed based on the analysis below.

David Sifry of Technorati offers the following insights which I will paraphrase. English, while being the language of the majority of early bloggers, has fallen to less than a third of all blog posts in April 2006. Japanese and Chinese language blogging has grown significantly. He notes that Japanese bloggers appear to write shorter posts more often. This could be a result of blogging from mobile phones, and may be skewing the results, given that we are tracking the total number of posts in this analysis.