Better late than never.<\/p>\n
For some reason Japan Times<\/strong><\/em> just ran the AP article about JET…..nearly 2 weeks after it initially appeared in the Washington Post, LA Times, etc.\u00a0 And it’s the first article in the online edition for the moment:\u00a0 http:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp<\/a> (Here’s a more permanent link to the article:\u00a0 http:\/\/search.japantimes.co.jp\/cgi-bin\/nn20100811f1.html<\/a><\/strong>)<\/p>\n While the additional attention from the article is welcome, it actually does not do a great job of giving readers a way to determine which side of the debate to support.\u00a0 For a better sense of why the JET Program and JETAA are no-brainers in terms of the return on investment for Japanese taxpayers, read here:\u00a0 https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2010\/07\/29\/jet-roi-washington-post-and-atlanta-journal-constitution-run-ap-article-on-jet\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Also read some of the comments to Jim Gannon’s “Chopping Block” article:\u00a0 https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2010\/07\/03\/jet-roi-jet-program-on-the-chopping-block-by-james-gannon\/<\/a><\/strong> Better late than never. For some reason Japan Times just ran the AP article about JET…..nearly 2 weeks after it initially appeared in the Washington Post, LA Times, etc.\u00a0 And it’s the first article in the online edition for the moment:\u00a0 http:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp (Here’s a more permanent link to the article:\u00a0 http:\/\/search.japantimes.co.jp\/cgi-bin\/nn20100811f1.html) While the additional attention […]<\/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":[282],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jet-roi"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-3oi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13038","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=13038"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13041,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13038\/revisions\/13041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAnd of course read any and all of the JET ROI (Return on Investment) posts:\u00a0 https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/category\/jet-roi\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"