The site nippon-ni.net was created in the autumn of 2003. The reason was that I (Johan Nielsen) was moving to Tokyo, Japan, for a two years postdoctoral research at the University of Tokyo (東京大学).

Nippon-ni.net was intended as the means for me to communicate with family and friends in Sweden about my daily life in Japan. Especially the diary, where I wrote all that happened every day for two years, became what I intended.

Now nippon-ni.net continues in a transformed form. It is no longer a diary but a blog where significant events of my everyday life will be recorded for anyone to read. But most of all for myself, my girlfriend, my family, and my friends.

The photos of nippon-ni.net is Copyright Johan Nielsen, and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License, except were explicitly stated otherwise or where it is obvious that Johan Nielsen is not the creator e.g. the “Steve Jobs 1955-2011″ photo which is Copyright © 2011 Apple Inc. All rights reserved.