{"id":12816,"date":"2010-07-28T00:19:46","date_gmt":"2010-07-28T04:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=12816"},"modified":"2010-07-28T00:19:46","modified_gmt":"2010-07-28T04:19:46","slug":"wit-life-111-monozukuri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2010\/07\/28\/wit-life-111-monozukuri\/","title":{"rendered":"WIT Life #111: Monozukuri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/category\/wit-life\/\">WITLife<\/a><\/strong><\/em><em><strong> is a periodic series written by professional Writer\/Interpreter\/Translator <\/strong><\/em><em><a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outbound\/article\/www.stacysmith.webs.com');\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stacysmith.webs.com\/\"><strong>Stacy Smith<\/strong><\/a> <\/em><em><strong>(Kumamoto-ken CIR, 2000-03). She starts her day by watching Fujisankei\u2019s newscast in Japanese, and here she shares s<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>ome of the interesting tidbits and trends together with her own observations.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>My travels (with a group of Pacific Islanders this time) prevent me from blogging as much as I want to, but I&#8217;d like to share an interesting article I just came across\u00a0regarding the Japanese concept of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.japanintercultural.com\/en\/news\/default.aspx?newsid=88&amp;goback=%2Egde_1848408_news_157696183\">monozukuri<\/a>, courtesy of Rochelle Kopp&#8217;s\u00a0Japan Intercultural Consulting site.\u00a0 Enjoy!\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.japanintercultural.com\/en\/news\/default.aspx?newsid=88&amp;goback=%2Egde_1848408_news_157696183\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WITLife is a periodic series written by professional Writer\/Interpreter\/Translator Stacy Smith (Kumamoto-ken CIR, 2000-03). 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