{"id":20073,"date":"2011-06-20T10:16:43","date_gmt":"2011-06-20T14:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=20073"},"modified":"2011-06-20T10:18:44","modified_gmt":"2011-06-20T14:18:44","slug":"justins-japan-new-york-mets%e2%80%99-japanese-heritage-night-aids-disaster-relief-efforts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2011\/06\/20\/justins-japan-new-york-mets%e2%80%99-japanese-heritage-night-aids-disaster-relief-efforts\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin’s Japan: New York Mets\u2019 Japanese Heritage Night Aids Disaster Relief Efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The New York Mets host their second annual Japanese Heritage Night at Citi Field June 21.<\/p><\/div>\n

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By<\/em> <\/strong>JQ<\/strong> magazine<\/strong><\/em><\/a> editor <\/em>Justin Tedaldi<\/a><\/em> (CIR Kobe-shi<\/a>, 2001-02)\u00a0for Examiner.com.\u00a0Visit his\u00a0page <\/em>here<\/a> <\/em>for related stories.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Following the success of last year\u2019s inaugural Japanese Heritage Night<\/a> at Citi Field, this new tradition\u2019s second edition on June 21 will pit the New York Mets against ex-Yankee Hideki Matsui\u2019s Oakland A\u2019s.<\/p>\n

Scheduled for the pre-game show to celebrate Japan\u2019s culture and heritage are New York-based taiko troupe Soh Daiko<\/a>; the Japanese Folk Dance Institute of New York<\/a>; a tribute to Wally Yonamine<\/a>, the first American to play professional baseball in Japan after World War II; and the Spirit Award to the People of Tohoku to be accepted by Ambassador Shigeyuki Hiroki<\/a> of the Consul General of Japan in New York. A portion of each ticket sold will benefit Japan earthquake and tsunami relief efforts.<\/p>\n

Sponsored by the Japanese community of New York, the event is also supported by those outside the five boroughs. California-based artist Andrea Fono<\/a> purchased two tickets for the game to support the cause in recognition of the enormous contributions Japan has made to other countries, including her husband\u2019s homeland of Fiji, which Japan donated tents and blankets to after Cyclone Tomas<\/a> battered the islands last year.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe people of Japan are consistently some of the kindest people in the world,\u201d Fono said. \u201cAnd the nation is extraordinarily generous in their contributing to other nations. This includes their relief contribution after the cyclone. We are grateful!\u201d<\/p>\n

Also involved with relief efforts are members of the JET Alumni Association<\/a>, a group that raised over $10,000<\/a> in a single night for the JETAA USA Fund<\/a> in April.<\/p>\n

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  By JQ magazine editor Justin Tedaldi (CIR Kobe-shi, 2001-02)\u00a0for Examiner.com.\u00a0Visit his\u00a0page here for related stories. Following the success of last year\u2019s inaugural Japanese Heritage Night at Citi Field, this new tradition\u2019s second edition on June 21 will pit the New York Mets against ex-Yankee Hideki Matsui\u2019s Oakland A\u2019s. Scheduled for the pre-game show to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[4,340],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articlejournalism","category-justins-japan"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-5dL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20073","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20073"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20079,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20073\/revisions\/20079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}