{"id":15359,"date":"2010-12-07T15:12:47","date_gmt":"2010-12-07T19:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=15359"},"modified":"2010-12-07T15:12:47","modified_gmt":"2010-12-07T19:12:47","slug":"japan-america-society-round-up-12-7-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2010\/12\/07\/japan-america-society-round-up-12-7-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan America Society Round-up 12.7.10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">JET alum <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/gailsensei.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\">Gail Cetnar Meadows<\/a><\/em><\/strong><em> (ALT, Hiroshima-shi 2007-10), co-founder of Hiroshima JET webzine the <\/em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wideislandview.com\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Wide Island View<\/em><\/a><\/strong><em>, shines a light on some of the upcoming events of Japan America Societies&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jascolorado.org\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">JAS of Colorado<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"mochitsuki\" src=\"http:\/\/mysite.verizon.net\/jny1\/mochi2008\/image\/pounding.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"138\" \/>Hatsuharu no Kai (New Year&#8217;s Celebration)<\/strong> \u2014 Don&#8217;t forget to eat your mochi! (Who needs Ovaltine, anyway?) Join students from the Japanese School of Denver as they greet 2011 by pounding rice into mochi, practicing calligraphy and demonstrating a tea ceremony.\n<ul>\n<li>Date: <strong>Sunday, Jan. 9<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Time: Noon to 3 p.m.<\/li>\n<li>Place: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arapahoe.edu\/about-acc\/locations\/littleton-campus\" target=\"_blank\">Arapahoe Community College<\/a>, Littleton campus<\/li>\n<li>For more information, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jascolorado.org\/events.php\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usajapan.org\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">JS of Northern California<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"tokyo godfathers\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/12\/15853928_6f0782eaba_o.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"210\" \/>Outdoor Film Series<\/strong> \u2014 Check out this series of free events in Japantown Peace Plaza over the next few months. Events include film screenings and karaoke contests. December&#8217;s film presentation is Tokyo Godfathers, a film set in Tokyo at Christmas. Three homeless friends\u2014a young girl, a transvestite, and a middle-aged bum\u2014are foraging through some trash when they find an abandoned newborn. Hana, the transvestite with delusions of being a mother, convinces the others to keep it overnight. The next day, using a key found with the baby, they start tracking down the parents, with many adventures along the way.\n<ul>\n<li>Date: <strong>Saturday, Dec. 11<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Time: 7 p.m.<\/li>\n<li>Place: Peace Plaza in Japantown, Post Street at Buchanan Street, San Francisco<\/li>\n<li>For more information, <a href=\"http:\/\/japansocietyofnortherncalifornia.myshopify.com\/products\/free-outdoor-film-series-in-japantown-peace-plaza-1\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Does your Japan America Society have an upcoming event that you&#8217;d like to share with JetWit readers? <\/em><a href=\"mailto:japansociety@jetwit.com\"><em>Email Gail<\/em><\/a><em> the info.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JET alum Gail Cetnar Meadows (ALT, Hiroshima-shi 2007-10), co-founder of Hiroshima JET webzine the Wide Island View, shines a light on some of the upcoming events of Japan America Societies&#8230; JAS of Colorado Hatsuharu no Kai (New Year&#8217;s Celebration) \u2014 Don&#8217;t forget to eat your mochi! (Who needs Ovaltine, anyway?) Join students from the Japanese [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"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":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan-society-round-up"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-3ZJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15359","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\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15359"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15363,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15359\/revisions\/15363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}