This was an exciting week where Jappleng went from a pretty good website to an evolved edition! Well, kind-of... We're still working on completing these changes but it's coming along really nicely and we're pretty proud of what has happened so far. Every day the site grows and becomes more complete and soon enough Jappleng will be completely ready for public consumption.This week we namely implemented the new version of the website which contained a redesigned web engine, revised and optimized code, as well as fixed many bugs that were introduced along with these changes. New sections and features have been implemented but some still remain inactive for the time being.Next week we'll be completing the migration and will have just about every section available again including the return of JPLearn! We hope that you will all look forward to these updates as much as we do!What's New for today:News- Share this article style has been fixed- Latest comments now supports the new engine- Article View, Category View, Top News Items, Top Contributors, and Latest Comments now supports the sub-menu (navigation)- Home Page and Category View now supports "no news image"- Submit news page placeholder has been added- Recent Comments / Now Trending / Top Contributors module has been upgradedGeneral- If user is logged-in, "register today" on the right menu no longer displaysHome- Currently trending on J-Spot has a better placeholder, but the actual module will be made available on the next updateExplore Japan!- Modules now correctly fetch both Cultural and Travel items- Issue where items would display when they were "deleted" has been corrected- Database queries have been optimized, should load faster now- Categories no longer mixes news items with cultural items- Home page, Categories, Article view now support the new sub-menu (navigation)- Travel home page redirects to Explore page- Cultural and Travel editorials no longer display the news menu- Resolved issues where the Quick access panel was the old one on certain pages- "No items found for this topic" has been visually tweakedEducation- Fixed link to JPLearn! from the home page (minor typo)- Home page modules display "Now in Private Beta Stage (Come back in a few days)"- My Progress page placeholder has been added- Practice page placeholder has been added- Public library placeholder has been added- Life in Japan URL in the right-menu has been resolved- J-Spot URL has been resolvedDocuments- Updated Copyright Notices page- For Parents, For Teachers, and Terms of Use pages have been updated corresponding the modular editions.Yesterday's Updates:- Click here to view yesterday's updatesNext Updates:Come back on Monday to see the next batch of updates!

Once again, this page is from a old section called News in Japan which hasn't been a thing since about 2016. But Jappleng has a lot more to offer such as:
- Entertainment section for Anime lineup, news, reviews and more (over 14,000 anime titles!)
- Education section to learn Japanese and about Japan for free
- Club Jappleng to create and join fan clubs, study groups etc...
- Travel Guides to learn more about Japan, immigration and tourist attractions
- Community forums, dedicated chat system, J-Spot social network
- Japanese practice games and other fun stuff like Yokai Trainers
- Massive Japanese <> English dictionary with over 500,000 words
- Achievements, unlockables and more!

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