{"id":13593,"date":"2010-09-15T06:48:21","date_gmt":"2010-09-15T10:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=13593"},"modified":"2010-09-20T08:09:52","modified_gmt":"2010-09-20T12:09:52","slug":"wit-life-125-kan-survives-yen-yet-to-be-determined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2010\/09\/15\/wit-life-125-kan-survives-yen-yet-to-be-determined\/","title":{"rendered":"WIT Life #125: Kan survives, yen yet to be determined"},"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.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/photos.upi.com\/story\/t\/dd756f8e4e7fa2365b52b45855cc7c8c\/Japanese-PM-Kan-names-new-Cabinet.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"172\" height=\"231\" \/><\/strong><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/09\/15\/world\/asia\/15japan.html?_r=1&amp;th&amp;emc=th\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s NYT has a flurry of articles about Japan&#8217;s politics and economy.\u00a0 First of all, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/09\/15\/world\/asia\/15japan.html?_r=1&amp;th&amp;emc=th\">PM Kan survived the challenge to his l<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/09\/15\/world\/asia\/15japan.html?_r=1&amp;th&amp;emc=th\">eade<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/09\/15\/world\/asia\/15japan.html?_r=1&amp;th&amp;emc=th\">rship<\/a> and handily defeated Ozawa with 721 votes to his 491.\u00a0 Everyone can breath a collective sigh of relief knowing that the PM will not be changing yet again.<\/p>\n<p>On the economic side, Hiroko Tabuchi gives us two articles about the strong yen and its implications.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/09\/15\/business\/global\/15yen.html?th&amp;emc=th\">One<\/a> discusses the measures the government has taken to weaken it, intervening in foreign markets for the first time since 2004.\u00a0 The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/09\/15\/world\/asia\/15japan.html?_r=1&amp;th&amp;emc=th\">other<\/a> talks about how the strong yen has provided an opportunity for Japanese companies to go a shopping spree purchasing foreign companies, such as Rakuten&#8217;s recent acquisition of Buy.com.\u00a0 Happy reading!<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><\/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. Today&#8217;s NYT has a flurry of articles about Japan&#8217;s politics and economy.\u00a0 First of all, [&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":[4,30,18,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articlejournalism","category-japan-trends","category-translatinginterpreting","category-wit-life"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-3xf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13593","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=13593"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13685,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13593\/revisions\/13685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}