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TJP is considering hosting contests with prizes from TheJapanShop.com. What would you most like to see? (discuss in forums)

Articles written by members on Japanese or Japan (would need to be knowledgeable on the subject of course!)
13% (35 votes)
Photography (Can be non-Japan subjects with captions or explanations in Japanese)
7% (19 votes)
Manga creation and Artwork
29% (77 votes)
Calligraphy
7% (18 votes)
Japanese-themed wallpapers for Download at TJP
6% (16 votes)
Best Haiku/poetry
6% (16 votes)
The first annual 'Yuki Award' for the best short story
7% (18 votes)
illustrations for scenes from Yuki no Monogatari
3% (7 votes)
Translating your favorite short story, poem etc from your native language into Japanese
22% (59 votes)
Total votes: 265

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I would LOVE to see

I would LOVE to see something on Calligraphy!

I would like the last

I would like the last one.

Mainly because most of the others are quite unrelated to the purpose of this site, while the last one is related to learning japanese in a way.

I really like the idea of

I really like the idea of the translating short stories or poems, because I joined this website to study japanese. It would be a big accomplishment for me to successfully translate something and get awarded for it. It would make me happy, and want to try harder :).

I guess the only reason I

I guess the only reason I chose manga is because I'm so into drawing manga all the time and that would be cook to enter manga contests for awsome japaneseshop stuff XD

Oh crap, I wish the last

Oh crap, I wish the last wins, I am so keen to translate some poems into Japanese.

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Interesting poll! I just

Interesting poll!
I just voted for the last option. For me, it was a tie between the first and the last.
Those seem to be the most 'Japanese language related' without any other specific ability/talent knocking on the door......
^_^

I am excited about going to

I am excited about going to Japan this November and would really like gather information and personal opinions rather than obtaining it thru guide books. Of course, all of the choices appealed to me, but I thought we could only choose one. Thank you for letting me indulge myself. I hope I can be of help to someone at some time.

Looks like I agree with

Looks like I agree with everyone else... it'd be neat to do more than just one subject, as several of these options were good. ^_^

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I agree with BuddhaGeo

I really liked a few of these ideas and would like to see more than one of them done at some point.

Could we vote for 3 contests

Could we vote for 3 contests rather than on one only?
Or are you planning to hold only the poll-winning contest?

Obviously we will first have

Obviously we will first have to see how things go (I'm about to become REALLY busy with a new baby), but I'd like to see several contests down the road.

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