{"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":"

WITLife<\/strong><\/em><\/a> is a periodic series written by professional Writer\/Interpreter\/Translator <\/strong><\/em>Stacy Smith<\/strong><\/a> <\/em>(Kumamoto-ken CIR, 2000-03). She starts her day by watching Fujisankei\u2019s newscast in Japanese, and here she shares s<\/strong><\/em>ome of the interesting tidbits and trends together with her own observations.\"\"<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Today’s NYT has a flurry of articles about Japan’s politics and economy.\u00a0 First of all, PM Kan survived the challenge to his l<\/a>eade<\/a>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

On the economic side, Hiroko Tabuchi gives us two articles about the strong yen and its implications.\u00a0 One<\/a> discusses the measures the government has taken to weaken it, intervening in foreign markets for the first time since 2004.\u00a0 The 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’s recent acquisition of Buy.com.\u00a0 Happy reading!<\/p>\n


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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’s NYT has a flurry of articles about Japan’s politics and economy.\u00a0 First of all, […]<\/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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"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":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t