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Rod Lucas

Jun 7
1 min

Site Performance in May

Another mixed performance, but in a very different way from April. While Google reported strong numbers in all four categories Wix did so...

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Rod Lucas

Jun 6
1 min

The latest upgrades to rodsshinto.com

I have substantially upgraded my “How Many Kami in Japan?” page. While the upgrade is still far from complete, the page is already much...

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Rod Lucas

May 3
1 min

Site Performance in April

A mixed month. Number of users and sessions improved, while the bounce rate and session duration both deteriorated. Number of users:...

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Rod Lucas

Apr 16
1 min

English/Japanese

I have added an automatic Japanese translation facility to my webpage. I would be very interested in hearing any comments you may like to...

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Rod Lucas

Apr 7
1 min

March: a Stellar Month

I will be posting statistics related to my webpage’s growth (hopefully not lack of) on a monthly basis from now on. According to Google...

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Rod Lucas

Mar 16
1 min

Divine Favours - 3

I have now identified 65 divine favours. A large number of them are asking for family-related happiness: family well-being, family...

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Rod Lucas

Feb 10
1 min

Divine Favours 2

It turns out that I have restarted this blog with a mistake. I said that 御利益 is read as “gorieki”: in fact, and thank you to my good...

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Rod Lucas

Feb 1
1 min

Divine Favours

It’s some since I added anything to this blog, time to start again. I have started listing the divine favours (御利益, gorieki) along with...

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Rod Lucas

Nov 6, 2021
1 min

Next Shrine Visit..

Going to Chichibu today, mainly to visit Mitsumine Jinja, a shrine where wolves are worshipped.

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Rod Lucas

Nov 1, 2021
1 min

Next Shrine Visit Note...

...will be Ne Jinja in Yokohama's Naka-ku. There are two other shrines by this name in Yokohaha, one in Minami-ku, one in Hodogaya-ku....

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Rod Lucas

Oct 26, 2021
1 min

Next Shrine Visit Note...

...will be Iseyama Kotaijingu in Yokohama-shi, Nishi-ku. It is of historical interest mainly because of the way political developments in...

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Rod Lucas

Sep 18, 2021
1 min

Farewell "Ex-post facto"

Since the confirmaion of the first Covid-19 virus infection in Japan on January 16, 2020, I have been self-isolating to a greater or...

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