{"id":14926,"date":"2010-11-19T12:12:17","date_gmt":"2010-11-19T16:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=14926"},"modified":"2010-12-10T14:35:35","modified_gmt":"2010-12-10T18:35:35","slug":"wit-life-137-tokyo-sky-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2010\/11\/19\/wit-life-137-tokyo-sky-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"WIT Life #137: Tokyo Sky Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/category\/wit-life\/\">WITLife<\/a><\/strong><\/em><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 shar<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>es 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:\/\/www.japanprobe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tokyotower-chart.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"626\" \/><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Very interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/11\/19\/business\/global\/19yakuza.html\">article<\/a> in yesterday&#8217;s NYT about how efforts are being made to reduce the presence of <em>yakuza<\/em> in various business transactions.\u00a0 The story focuses on the recent\u00a0construction project of Tokyo Sky Tree, a communications tower.\u00a0 This is a huge change as traditionally yakuza have been an integral part of this industry, often seeking &#8220;protection money&#8221; from developers.\u00a0 Developers might also call on the yakuza to give an extra push to people unwilling to give up their land.\u00a0 I liked <a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2010\/04\/09\/wit-life-87-tokyo-vice\/\">Jake Adelstein<\/a>&#8216;s\u00a0quote calling the yakuza \u201cGoldman Sachs with guns.\u201d\u00a0 Check out the adjoining picture to see a comparison between Tokyo Tower and the &#8220;new Tokyo Tower,&#8221; what Sky Tree was called before decided on its official name.\u00a0 Other candidates were Tokyo Edo Tower, Mirai (Future) Tree, Yume Miyagura (Dreamwatching Tower), Rising East Tower and Rising Tower.\u00a0 It\u00a0is due to\u00a0be completed next year.<\/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. Very interesting article in yesterday&#8217;s NYT about how efforts are being made to reduce the [&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":[4,30,18,1,36,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articlejournalism","category-japan-trends","category-translatinginterpreting","category-uncategorized","category-wit-life","category-writers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-3SK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14926","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=14926"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15459,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14926\/revisions\/15459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}