Doc (citing the song quoted above) points to Dave, who says that there are likely now more Japanese blogs in the world than English language ones:
Back in April 2005, Technorati started automatically tracking the primary language of each blog that we tracked. We did this so that we could easily allow people to filter out posts in languages other than their native language. This is available in a pull-down menu on every search results page. We also wanted to get some idea of where the worldwide growth of blogging was taking place, and what trends we could glean from the data.
He includes a bunch of caveats in his report, but he also includes a bunch of awesome charts.
DarrenBarefoot.com 
It’s actually “everyone avoids me like a psyched lone ranger.” Dude. Come on.
Cyclone Rangers were a group of people in LA who were addicted to a bathtub version of a particularly vicious version of a chemotherapy drug.
It caused pustules and patchy hair loss. How trendy! When Heroin isn’t hard enough, I guess…
It was the drug of choice for those with trust funds and death-wishes, but soon died out with its users.
High Times did some excellent reporting on the phenomena around 1980.