{"id":22749,"date":"2011-12-02T12:39:47","date_gmt":"2011-12-02T16:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=22749"},"modified":"2011-12-02T12:40:34","modified_gmt":"2011-12-02T16:40:34","slug":"wit-life-185-supporting-fukushima","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2011\/12\/02\/wit-life-185-supporting-fukushima\/","title":{"rendered":"WIT Life #185: Supporting Fukushima"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Time truly flies, as I can’t believe it has been so long since I’ve been here.\u00a0 At any rate, tadaima!\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Although almost nine months have passed since the earthquake\/tsunami in Fukushima, and I am glad to say that the recover\uff59 effort is still on people’s minds.\u00a0 Last night I went to the Artist Showcase and Fundraiser for Japan held at Ambassador Shigeyuki Hiroki’s Residence. The event featured a reception honoring a visiting Fukushima prefectural government delegation to New York, along with artwork (some from JET alumni!) available for silent auction purchase.<\/p>\n

Ambassador Hiroki offered his comments, and a representative of the Fukushima prefectural governor read a letter from him on his behalf.\u00a0 On display were Fukushima goods, and guests partook of Fukushima sake as well as local culinary offerings such as delicious rice and peaches.\u00a0 The filled to capacity crowd seemed to enjoy themselves and were glad to be able to contribute, even in a small way, to the ongoing struggle to restore normalcy in Fukushima.<\/p>\n

For those who weren’t able to attend last night but feel like they want to do something to help the cause, there is an event tonight in Union Square being held by the Blue Sky Project, a group of young Fukushima enterpreneurs, with backing from the New York Fukushima Prefectural Association.\u00a0 For details, please see the press release below and hope to see you all there!<\/p>\n

Support\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>Fukushima: Candle Night in NY<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
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New York, NY<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 <\/span>\"\"<\/a>November 25, 2011 \u2013 Members of\u00a0Young Entrepreneurs Group in various regions of Fukushima, Japan formed and established a group called \u201cBl<\/span>ue Sky Project\u201d and will be in New York to raise their spirit of rebuilding their hometown after experiencing the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami followed by ill-fated Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear disaster. New York is the aspiration for Fukushima that the city also has experienced September 11th, and has been recovering financially and mentally from the tragedy. Fukushima has been suffering\u00a0from financial damages and harmful reputation from radiation scare even after 8 \u00bd <\/span>months later. In order to overcome the negative images and views towards Fukushima, the members of \u201cBlue Sky Project\u201d and its supporters of New Yorkers will conduct the event: Support Fukushima Candle Night.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Date and time: December 2<\/span>nd<\/sup>, 18:00~18:30<\/span><\/div>\n
Place: Union<\/span> Square, the west side of the park, between 15th<\/sup>\u00a0& 16th<\/sup>\u00a0Streets<\/span><\/div>\n
Object: Send out the messages to Japan and the rest of the world.<\/span><\/div>\n
1. Positive image of the Fukushima once blessed with nature and has nurtured its abundant culture<\/span><\/div>\n
2. New Yorkers\u2019 prayer for the rebuilding Fukushima<\/span><\/div>\n
What we do:<\/span><\/div>\n
1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Every participant lights a painted candle to pray for the rebuild Fukushima to bring back blue sky. The painted candle is traditional crafts known from Aizu region of Fukushima.<\/span><\/div>\n
2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Sing a few popular Japanese songs including \u201cI love you & I need you Fukushima\u201d. This song was composed by musicians from Fukushima after the disaster and was widespread throughout Japan.<\/span><\/div>\n
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*********************** WIT Life 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. Time truly flies, as I can’t believe it has been so long since […]<\/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":[378,53,18,1,36,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earthquake-tsunami","category-events","category-translatinginterpreting","category-uncategorized","category-wit-life","category-writers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-5UV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22749","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=22749"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22775,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22749\/revisions\/22775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}