{"id":21422,"date":"2011-09-07T10:09:36","date_gmt":"2011-09-07T14:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=21422"},"modified":"2011-09-07T10:09:36","modified_gmt":"2011-09-07T14:09:36","slug":"slate-com-series-can-japan-recover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2011\/09\/07\/slate-com-series-can-japan-recover\/","title":{"rendered":"Slate.com series: “Can Japan Recover?”"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s an excellent ongoing series<\/a> on Slate.com titled “Can Japan Recover?”<\/a><\/strong> by Daisann McLane<\/a><\/strong> as she travels through various areas of Tohoku. \u00a0McLane is traveling and writing about Japan as a guest of the Japan National Tourism Organization (JNTO)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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  1. “Sendai Rising From the Wreckage<\/a>“<\/strong><\/li>\n
  2. “The Fishermen of Fukushima<\/a>“<\/strong><\/li>\n
  3. “The New Fear of Food<\/a>“<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    “I’m exploring recovering Japan as a guest of the Japan National Tourism Organization. Tourism here\u00a0dropped through the floor<\/a> in the first three months after what’s now being called the “Triple Disaster”\u2014earthquake, tsunami, Fukushima. The tourism board was so eager for upbeat stories they offered to send me anywhere I wanted over the course of a week. I emailed them a decidedly non-upbeat itinerary: Sendai, Fukushima, Tokyo. To my surprise, and to their credit, they said no problem. A few weeks later, in July, I was on a\u00a0Shinkansen<\/a>speeding north from Tokyo to Sendai.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    To read more of McLane’s writing about Japan on her travel blog, go to\u00a0www.therealtravelblog.com<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    There’s an excellent ongoing series on Slate.com titled “Can Japan Recover?” by Daisann McLane as she travels through various areas of Tohoku. \u00a0McLane is traveling and writing about Japan as a guest of the Japan National Tourism Organization (JNTO). “Sendai Rising From the Wreckage“ “The Fishermen of Fukushima“ “The New Fear of Food“ “I’m exploring […]<\/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_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":[4,378,369,30,368,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articlejournalism","category-earthquake-tsunami","category-japan-local","category-japan-trends","category-traveltourism","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