{"id":1847,"date":"2008-11-30T14:04:25","date_gmt":"2008-11-30T14:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=1847"},"modified":"2008-11-30T16:35:44","modified_gmt":"2008-11-30T16:35:44","slug":"rise-in-elderly-crime-in-japan-by-the-washington-posts-blaine-harden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2008\/11\/30\/rise-in-elderly-crime-in-japan-by-the-washington-posts-blaine-harden\/","title":{"rendered":"Rise in Elderly Crime in Japan &#8211; by The Washington Post&#8217;s Blaine Harden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/secondcitystyle.typepad.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/2007\/08\/03\/shoplifters.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"91\" \/>An <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/11\/29\/AR2008112901913.html?wpisrc=newsletter\" target=\"_blank\">interesting article about a rise in crime by the elderly in Japan<\/a>, by the <em>Washington Post&#8217;s<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/projects.washingtonpost.com\/staff\/articles\/blaine+harden\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Blaine Harden<\/strong><\/a> and <strong>Akiko Yamamoto<\/strong>.\u00a0 Apparently many older people, feeling isolated and disconnected, are engaging in shoplifting.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">A question for JET alumni readers<\/span>:\u00a0 Have you heard about or experienced this trend or related trends in other contexts?\u00a0 Do any JETs or JET alums out there interact with elderly communities on a regular basis?\u00a0 It seems like there&#8217;s a lot of potential for both volunteer and <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_n_hVSIR2x9g\/SAXWqRNauwI\/AAAAAAAAAEc\/m8hi3Fs__rc\/s320\/gateball.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"192\" height=\"125\" \/>work opportunities for JET alums with regard to Japan&#8217;s aging population.<\/p>\n<p>Send an e-mail to <a href=\"mailto:jetwit@jetwit.com\"><strong>jetwit \/atto\/ jetwit \/dotto\/ com<\/strong><\/a> with any comments or perspectives, or post a comment below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting article about a rise in crime by the elderly in Japan, by the Washington Post&#8217;s Blaine Harden and Akiko Yamamoto.\u00a0 Apparently many older people, feeling isolated and disconnected, are engaging in shoplifting. A question for JET alumni readers:\u00a0 Have you heard about or experienced this trend or related trends in other contexts?\u00a0 Do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[4,30,1,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articlejournalism","category-japan-trends","category-uncategorized","category-writers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-tN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1847"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1851,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847\/revisions\/1851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}