{"id":16053,"date":"2011-01-10T12:52:52","date_gmt":"2011-01-10T16:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=16053"},"modified":"2011-01-10T13:14:54","modified_gmt":"2011-01-10T17:14:54","slug":"wit-life-149-%e6%88%90%e4%ba%ba%e3%81%ae%e6%97%a5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2011\/01\/10\/wit-life-149-%e6%88%90%e4%ba%ba%e3%81%ae%e6%97%a5\/","title":{"rendered":"WIT Life #149: \u6210\u4eba\u306e\u65e5"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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Yesterday Japan celebrated \u6210\u4eba\u306e\u65e5 (seijin no hi<\/em>) or Coming of Age Day, and 1.24 million youngsters took part in this celebration (\u6210\u4eba\u5f0f or seijinshiki<\/em>).\u00a0 This was the lowest number of participants ever, and the fourth straight year in which the number of 20-year olds has declined.\u00a0 This morning’s news interviewed the 1500 or so Chiba youths who were lucky enough to have their ceremony at Disneyland.\u00a0 They were asked how they felt about becoming adults, and the majority expressed uncertainty regarding their future and being able to find jobs.\u00a0 This year’s group was born in 1990 when the economic bubble burst, and they have grown up with a struggling Japan.\u00a0 Armed with newfound drinking, smoking and voting privileges, hopefully they will be able to find their way in the world.<\/p>\n

In other news, an article in today’s New York Times<\/a> outlines the difficulties Facebook has found trying to get a foothold in Japan.\u00a0 It highlights how a big part of the problem is privacy issues, as most Japanese SNS users tend to contribute anonymously, rarely posting pictures of themselves or sharing other identifying factors.\u00a0 Their virtual presence is less a way of complementing their real life but instead a way of escaping it, and they prefer sites such as the leading Mixi that allow them to do this.\u00a0 According to a survey of 2130 Japanese mobile Web users, 89% of respondents said that they were reluctant to disclose their real names.\u00a0 This is a significant hurdle that Facebook will have to overcome in order to gain popularity in Japan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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. Yesterday Japan celebrated \u6210\u4eba\u306e\u65e5 (seijin no hi) or Coming of Age Day, and 1.24 million […]<\/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":[30,18,1,36,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","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-4aV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16053","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=16053"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16075,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16053\/revisions\/16075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}