It’s New Year’s Eve! Hope all Japundit readers have a Happy and Prosperous New Year. There are lots of contests and lists and top tens around this time of year, so why not us too? What do you think was the best, most memorable, enlightening, funny, or inspiring post you saw on Japundit this year? Here are some I remember, but you all probably have different ideas:

• Kanji Becoming a Lost Art? that discloses some shocking findings from a survey by the Agency for Cultural Affairs.
• Envy: Don’t Leave Home Without It which quoted a brief passage from Helmut Schoeck’s Envy: A Theory of Social Behavior and stimulated a lot of comment.
• Oyogu Hone — Swimming Bones with disgusting commentary and a video clip of the technique.
• Translating Beauty or Japanese Girls Must Stop Being Kawaii, Marie Mockett’s thoughtful commentary on Riyo Mori’s win in the Miss Universe pagent.
• Step Right Up–You Go First… which elicited a number of comments about the horrors of colonoscopy and worse.
• Toujours Tingo about the new book which draws on more than 300 languages exploring areas where English fails us.
• The Tokyo Yamanote Halloween Train Rides into a Sea of Adversity leads to everything about the legendary and notorious Yamanote Halloween Train.

You might also have a favorite devilishly clever title or witty comment. All the commenters and contributers keep Japundit alive by providing the content that we all come back for — but the editor Edward Chmura deserves a special vote of thanks for always filling in the gaps when commenters and contributors sometimes get busy, or tired, or lazy…

Well — who’s perfect? But all in all, looking back over a year of posts and comments here — there is a lot and a lot of it is really good. We are all to be congratulated! Yay!