{"id":1355,"date":"2008-11-14T21:25:51","date_gmt":"2008-11-14T21:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=1355"},"modified":"2008-11-14T22:45:43","modified_gmt":"2008-11-14T22:45:43","slug":"a-book-about-jets-in-japanese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2008\/11\/14\/a-book-about-jets-in-japanese\/","title":{"rendered":"A Book About JETs in Japanese?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.jp\/gp\/product\/4845105039\/ref=cm_rdp_product_img\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1358\" title=\"whydontyousayyesbookcover\" src=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/whydontyousayyesbookcover-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"189\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/whydontyousayyesbookcover-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/whydontyousayyesbookcover-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/whydontyousayyesbookcover.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 189px) 100vw, 189px\" \/><\/a>Thanks to <strong>Ken Haraguchi<\/strong>, a NY-based reporter for Japanese weekly newspaper <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usfl.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Frontline<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, I recently learned that there&#8217;s actually a book called\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.jp\/gp\/product\/4845105039\/ref=cm_rdp_product_img\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>\u3069\u3046\u3057\u3066Yes\u3082\u8a00\u3048\u306a\u3044\u306e-\u30a2\u30e1\u30ea\u30ab\u4eba\u304c\u898b\u305f\u65e5\u672c\u306e\u5b66\u6821\u73fe\u5834<\/strong><\/a> (<em>Why Can&#8217;t You Say &#8220;Yes&#8221;?<\/em>) in Japanese written by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yoshiohotta.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Yoshio Hotta<\/strong><\/a>, a Japanese journalist who interviewed a number of JET alumni in the Washington, DC area.\u00a0 The title dervies from one of the stories in the book about a JET&#8217;s frustration with Japanese people&#8217;s tendency to keep things vague, resulting in awkwardness for the <em>gaijin<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Ken Haraguchi, a NY-based reporter for Japanese weekly newspaper Frontline, I recently learned that there&#8217;s actually a book called\u00a0\u3069\u3046\u3057\u3066Yes\u3082\u8a00\u3048\u306a\u3044\u306e-\u30a2\u30e1\u30ea\u30ab\u4eba\u304c\u898b\u305f\u65e5\u672c\u306e\u5b66\u6821\u73fe\u5834 (Why Can&#8217;t You Say &#8220;Yes&#8221;?) in Japanese written by Yoshio Hotta, a Japanese journalist who interviewed a number of JET alumni in the Washington, DC area.\u00a0 The title dervies from one of the stories 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