Category: Monthly Updates

September 2024 Updates This month we added a new family to the website, the Amago Family, got several new yōkai on the website as well as all information concerning Emperor Keikō that resides in the nihongi. We have plans to finish off the yōkai in the konjaku hyakki shūi this[...]

August 2024 Updates We made good progress this month with the August 2024 Updates! Continuing adding information about Emperor Keikō’s reign from the nihongi and almost all of his children. We also have some new yōkai and clans added to the website. We aim to try and add a bit[...]

July 2024 Updates This month was definately an interesting month, so here we go with the July 2024 Updates. We did endeavour to finish all of the information pertaining to Emperor Keikō, but there is just so much we are still working through it. Progress has been made though thankfully[...]

June 2024 Updates It has been a few months since we were last able to update the website, and we apologise for that. Work gets in the way, yuu know how it is. When you have a full time job, passion projects often have to wait. Hoping one day we[...]

December 2023 Updates Things are slowly coming together in the December 2023 Updates as we bring back the podcast. And we thank you all for your patience as we get it going again and endeavour to keep the website expanding with the addition of our youtube channel which we are[...]

October 2023 Updates Hey everyone, the with our October 2023 Updates turned into a quiet month in regards to new pages on the site. But we did update several other pages as well. This month we focused on all the information surrounding the reign of Emperor Seimu and so his[...]

September 2023 Updates So it has been a little while, but we are here now with our September 2023 Updates. We have been making a move to bring many different projects together in the future and we can’t wait to show you what we have planned for this site, the[...]

June 2023 Updates In the June 2023 Updates, like we mentioned last month we wanted to use the month of May to make everything a little more consistent on the website and change terms such as God/Deity/Spirit to all be matching and use the term kami as this is the[...]

As you can see below in the May 2023 Updates not much was actually added to the website, nor was much updated. We decided to have a much slower month after the productivity of April and we are happy to see we are still getting consistently high visits to the[...]

Well as you can see in the April 2023 Updates we did what we set out to do for the month. All the notes I have right now for members of the Fujiwara Clan are now on the website and so I will be taking a break from them. When[...]

February is over already. And we have had another productive month. The podcast continues its return and we have many new ideas we want to bring to you soon. We did a lot of pages surrounding the reign of Emperor Sujin, as well as several new Yokai and people from[...]

February 2023 Updates The first month of the new year is over. And this month has seen one of the busiest months I have ever had for the website. I have added more than 70 pages to the site, and still been able to work with Heather to bring back[...]

January 2023 Updates A New Year has started and I am more motivated than ever with this website, bringing back the podcast and all the new things I have started to do like Youtube. This month was getting a lot of pages created that have been waiting to be made[...]

December 2022 Updates Hey everyone, hope you are preparing for the Holiday Season and can all relax soon over the New Year. We made some small progress this month with the children of Takeuchi no Sukune as we have also been working on a secret new project that will be[...]

November 2022 Updates Hey everyone, here is our November 2022 Updates for you all. This month ended up being rather productive. Like we said in the previous update post we are still working through all of the members of the Fujiwara Clan we currently have notes for and have added[...]

October 2022 Updates Hey there. Another update for you all as our podcast continues its little break. Many things happening right now in our lives that are keeping us away from our show right now. But don’t worry, we will be coming back to you soon! As for the website.[...]

September 2022 Updates Well we have been busy with life lately, but we have been slowly adding to the website still since our last post in June. We’re kinda of unsure which pages we have Updated since the last post, but we can still list for you all the new[...]

June 2022 Updates Well it definately turned in to a most productive for us on the website, so here are the June 2022 Updates. We are drawing very close to completing all the members of the Fujiwara Clan we can that are mentioned in the books we currently have. We[...]

May 2022 Updates It has been a pretty good month overall for the website so here are the May 2022 Updates. Right now we are in Kyoto on a little holiday exploring the places we have talked about on some of our episodes. As for the website, almost everything is[...]

April 2022 Updates We have been keeping the ball rolling since we hit 1000 pages last months. Alot of updates and a lot of new pages for the first time in a long while all listed here for you in the April 2022 Updates. Total Pages: 1048 Wanted Pages: 834[...]

March 2022 Updates Here are our March 2022 Updates. Well we finally did it! We have hit over 1000 pages on the website! Heres to another productive year for the website and our podcast: Japan Archives. Total Pages: 1009 Wanted Pages: 828 Culture Human Sacrifice Literature Chōjū-jinbutsu-giga Bunbuku Chagama Engi[...]

October 2021 Updates Lets get into the October 2021 Updates. This has been a good month for the website, we dug out a dusty journal we have had for a while that we once used when doing our Human Sacrifice episode. And so we have looked through it and been[...]

September 2021 Updates Since the last update we have concentrated on getting the Shinto mythologies all the way up to the birth of Ōkuninushi onto the website. We’re happy to say this is all done now and we also added a few new members of the Fujiwara Clan. So please[...]

June 2021 Updates This past month we had a push to get the nihongi and kojiki finished up to the end of Susano-o and his exploits in Heaven. There is of course much more to come in the Shinto mythologies, but we are slowly getting there we promise. We have[...]

May 2021 Updates Well after last months big update of everything from the last year, the May 2021 Updates are super tiny. We are on track to getting all our projects up to date around new work schedules, so here are the 4 new pages that got added since the[...]

April 2021 Updates Well it has certainly been a long time since we did this hasn’t it? But it is time for the April 2021 Updates. Corona, moving house, looking for a new job. All these things have been keeping us away from the website when we have sorely been[...]