Life in Japan interpreted through statistics! ‘Seron’ (Ken Yasumoto-Nicolson) finds surveys and opinion polls of Japanese people and interprets them in this blog, explaining the results in everyday language and sometimes even a pie chart.

The diverse collection of subjects ranges from the frivolous - vending machine items the Japanese would like to buy, to the more functional - how many people know what processor their computer runs on.

You can read a Japan Times interview with the Scottish - Japanese author of the blog here.

An American with a French father, La Coquette has lived in Paris for 4 years and writes about life in her father’s home country. Fashion is a recurring theme, but she also comments on a range of other topics. Her style is witty, original and very readable. Scroll down to the 16 November 2007 post “French oldies in Coups de Foudre…” for links to some old French musical favourites.

‘Flowerful’ is a 20 something teacher from South Korea. She posts regularly about her life in Far Far Away.

In two different posts this week we can see how life for Koreans is both similar (she worries about finding the right man) and different (she explains that the way age is calculated in Korea means that when she was only two weeks old her official age was 2!) to life in other countries.

Abocco’s blog gives a taste of life in Ghana: music, Ghana’s golden jubilee and football with the African Cup of Nations are some topics to explore.