{"id":13121,"date":"2010-08-17T12:32:17","date_gmt":"2010-08-17T16:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=13121"},"modified":"2010-08-17T21:10:54","modified_gmt":"2010-08-18T01:10:54","slug":"wit-life-116-japanese-shifts-in-sumo-and-economic-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2010\/08\/17\/wit-life-116-japanese-shifts-in-sumo-and-economic-status\/","title":{"rendered":"WIT Life #116: Japanese Shifts in Sumo and Economic Status"},"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><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><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sumo-basho.com\/sumobasho\/images\/sumo3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"226\" height=\"184\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Two interesting Japan articles in today&#8217;s Wall Street Journal.\u00a0 The <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704164904575421774076649464.html\">first on the cover page<\/a> talks about the sumo club at Tokyo University, and how those previously not associated with the sport, such as smaller size wrestlers and foreigners, are now making a splash.\u00a0 The <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704868604575433212314778700.html\">second in the opinion section<\/a> discusses the recent news that China has replaced Japan as the world&#8217;s second largest economy (and is set to surpass America in the near future).\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 CIR, 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. Two interesting Japan articles in today&#8217;s Wall Street Journal.\u00a0 The first on the cover page [&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":[42,30,18,1,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anecdote-article","category-japan-trends","category-translatinginterpreting","category-uncategorized","category-wit-life"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-3pD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13121","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=13121"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13125,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13121\/revisions\/13125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}