{"id":11222,"date":"2010-03-25T11:21:51","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T15:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=11222"},"modified":"2010-03-25T11:21:51","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T15:21:51","slug":"event-jet-alum-authors-roland-kelts-and-karl-taro-greenfeld-to-speak-in-philadelphia-march-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2010\/03\/25\/event-jet-alum-authors-roland-kelts-and-karl-taro-greenfeld-to-speak-in-philadelphia-march-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Event:  JET alum authors Roland Kelts and Karl Taro Greenfeld to speak in Philadelphia &#8211; March 26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a quick jaunt back to Tokyo, <strong><a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outbound\/article\/japanamerica.blogspot.com');\" href=\"http:\/\/japanamerica.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Roland Kelts<\/a> (Osaka-shi, 1998-99)<\/strong>, author  of <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outbound\/article\/www.japanamericabook.com');\" href=\"http:\/\/www.japanamericabook.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Japanamerica<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, is back in the U.S. and on the road this week for a short stint  for the <strong>Association of Asian Studies&#8217; (AAS)<\/strong> Annual Meeting in <strong>Philadelphia<\/strong>,  where he will appear on <strong> Friday, March 26<\/strong> for a discussion panel called <strong>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aasianst.org\/annual-meeting\/2010\/Friday.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The Japan Knowledge  Industry Outside the Academy<\/a>&#8220;<\/strong> with fellow author and JET Alum <a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2009\/03\/24\/another-jet-alum-author-karl-greenfeld\/\"><strong>Karl Taro Greenfeld<\/strong><\/a> <strong>(Kanagawa-ken, 1988-89) <\/strong>(<a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outbound\/article\/www.amazon.com');\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Speed-Tribes-Nights-Japans-Generation\/dp\/B000WMR0B8\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1237768794&amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Speed Tribes:\u00a0 Days and Nights With Japan\u2019s  Next Generation<\/strong><\/em><\/a>), author <strong> William M. Tsutsui<\/strong> (<strong><em>Godzilla on my Mind<\/em><\/strong>), journalist <strong>Misako Hida<\/strong> (<strong><em>The Wall  Street Journal Japan<\/em><\/strong>), and <strong>Professor Laura Miller<\/strong> (<strong><em>Bad Girls of Japan<\/em><\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p>The discussion takes place this Friday, March  26, from 10:45 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. at the Philadelphia Marriott  Downtown Hotel. More info can be found under &#8220;# 69&#8221; here: <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aasianst.org\/annual-meeting\/2010\/Friday.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.aasianst.org\/annual-meeting\/2010\/Friday.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Philly-area JET alums are encouraged to swing by and say hello.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a quick jaunt back to Tokyo, Roland Kelts (Osaka-shi, 1998-99), author of Japanamerica, is back in the U.S. and on the road this week for a short stint for the Association of Asian Studies&#8217; (AAS) Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, where he will appear on Friday, March 26 for a discussion panel called &#8220;The Japan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[53,30,14,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-japan-trends","category-roland-kelts","category-writers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-2V0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11222","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11222"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11224,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11222\/revisions\/11224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}