{"id":18880,"date":"2011-04-22T07:56:57","date_gmt":"2011-04-22T11:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=18880"},"modified":"2011-04-22T08:01:14","modified_gmt":"2011-04-22T12:01:14","slug":"wit-life-163","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2011\/04\/22\/wit-life-163\/","title":{"rendered":"WIT Life #163: Two Japanese recognized by Time’s Top 100"},"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<\/strong><\/em> 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

Two Japanese men were selected to be on Time magazine’s annual list of the 100 most influential people worldwide. Both received recognition in regard to their handling of the recent earthquake\/tsunami.\u00a0 The first is Mayor Katsunobu Sakurai<\/a> of Minami Soma, a town 15 miles from the Fukushima nuclear power plant. In an earlier post<\/a> I highlighted an article<\/a> about his calm and composed yet moving YouTube video<\/a>, a plea for help which has had more than 350,000 hits from around the world.<\/p>\n

The second is Takeshi Kanno<\/a>, a 31-year old doctor in the town of Minami Sanriku whose quick response evacuating people before the tsunami hit saved many lives.\u00a0 He remained with those he rescued for two days before returning to his wife just in time to make the birth of their second son.\u00a0 Two truly inspirational stories for your weekend!<\/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. Two Japanese men were selected to be on Time magazine’s annual list of the 100 […]<\/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":[18,1,36,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-translatinginterpreting","category-uncategorized","category-wit-life","category-writers"],"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