J∙Festa

Welcome to J∙Festa

J∙Festa is a blogging festival showcasing the best of Japan. Here you will find a regular round-up of inspiring articles, thought-provoking stories and arousing images prompted by the announcement of a Japan-related theme. Best of all, everyone is invited to participate!

Participating in a blog carnival is a good way to get your blog noticed by others. Submitting articles also helps to improve your link popularity by building backlinks as well as sending direct traffic to your site.

Carnival Editions

The following table shows the current, past and future J∙Festa host sites, theme announcements and carnival publications.

Carnival Edition	Carnival Host	Theme Announcement	Carnival Publication	Entries
March 2012	japingu	Announcement: March 2012
February 2012	japingu	Announcement: February 2012	Valentine's Day in Japan	9
January 2012	japingu	Announcement: January 2012	Winter in Japan	11
December 2011	japingu	Announcement: December 2011	Christmas in Japan	18
November 2011	japingu	Announcement: November 2011	Dining in Japan	21
October 2011	japingu	Announcement: October 2011	Entertainment in Japan	13
September 2011	japingu	Announcement: September 2011	Events in Japan	13
August 2011	japingu	Announcement: August 2011	Food in Japan	30
July 2011	japingu	Announcement: July 2011	Places in Japan	29

Submission Guidelines

If you would like to participate in the J∙Festa blog carnival, the following guidelines will help you ensure that your submission will get the airtime it deserves.

Submitted articles must:

• Be relevant to the announced theme
• Include a link back to the theme announcement post
• Be submitted prior to the announced deadline
• Contain no advertisements or solicitations of business
• Contain no non-English material unless translations are included
• Not have already appeared in a previous carnival edition

The carnival host has sole discretion in deciding which articles are included in a carnival publication.

Frequently Asked Questions

Got a question? Use the contact form to ask it.

1. Can I submit an old post?

Whilst fresh posts are preferred, old articles are acceptable. Please note however that fresh posts will be given priority when determining the rank of the article in the list of submissions in the carnival publication.

2. How do you determine the order of posts in the carnival publication?

There is absolutely no science in determining the order of posts in the carnival publication except that fresh articles generally have priority over older posts.

3. What is a fresh article?

A fresh article is an article that is dated on or after the date that the theme for that month is announced.