{"id":10372,"date":"2010-01-29T01:49:57","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T05:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=10372"},"modified":"2010-02-02T13:20:18","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T17:20:18","slug":"wit-life-72-base-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2010\/01\/29\/wit-life-72-base-blues\/","title":{"rendered":"WIT Life #72: Base blues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/category\/wit-life\/\"><em><strong>WITLife<\/strong><\/em><\/a><em><strong> is a periodic series written by professional Writer\/Interpreter\/Translator <\/strong><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stacysmith.webs.com\/\"><em><strong>Stacy Smith <\/strong><\/em><\/a><em><strong>(Kumamoto-ken, 2000-03). She starts her day by watching Fujisankei\u2019s newscast in Japanese, and here she shares some of the interesting tidbits and trends together with her own observations.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Quick follow-up to my last post re. the\u00a0Okinawa base debate.\u00a0 An <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/01\/28\/opinion\/28thu2.html?scp=1&amp;sq=japan%20us%20base&amp;st=Search\">editorial in yesterday&#8217;s NYT<\/a> discusses the importance of a meeting that will take place this week between the Obama administration and two visiting Japanese senior officials.\u00a0 The article urges both countries to not let\u00a0this contentious issue get in the way of their valuable alliance.\u00a0\u00a0It will be interesting to see what emerges from these security talks.<\/p>\n<p>Also check out Roger Cohen&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/01\/29\/opinion\/29iht-edcohen.html?scp=2&amp;sq=roger%20cohen&amp;st=cse\">editorial<\/a> in today&#8217;s Times which talks about the imagined results of a future America (circa 2040) that has withdrawn from world affairs (or been supplanted by China in this role).\u00a0 He discusses the frightening ramifications in regard to Japan and the Asian region in the middle of the article.\u00a0 Happy reading!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WITLife is a periodic series written by professional Writer\/Interpreter\/Translator Stacy Smith (Kumamoto-ken, 2000-03). She starts her day by watching Fujisankei\u2019s newscast in Japanese, and here she shares some of the interesting tidbits and trends together with her own observations. Quick follow-up to my last post re. the\u00a0Okinawa base debate.\u00a0 An editorial in yesterday&#8217;s NYT discusses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[42,4,30,18,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anecdote-article","category-articlejournalism","category-japan-trends","category-translatinginterpreting","category-wit-life"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-2Hi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10372"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10496,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10372\/revisions\/10496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}