{"id":24322,"date":"2012-03-23T11:38:22","date_gmt":"2012-03-23T15:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=24322"},"modified":"2012-03-23T11:38:22","modified_gmt":"2012-03-23T15:38:22","slug":"wit-life-193-spending-time-in-ichiro-land-aka-seattle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2012\/03\/23\/wit-life-193-spending-time-in-ichiro-land-aka-seattle\/","title":{"rendered":"WIT Life #193: Spending Time in Ichiro-Land, aka Seattle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><em><strong><em><strong><em><strong><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/category\/wit-life\/\">WIT Life<\/a> <\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/em>is <\/strong><\/em>a periodic series written<\/strong><\/em><em><strong> by professional Writer\/Interpreter\/Translator <\/strong><\/em><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stacysmith.webs.com\/\"><strong>Stacy Smith<\/strong><\/a> <\/em><em><strong>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pref.kumamoto.jp\/english\/list.html\">Kumamo<\/a><\/strong><\/em><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pref.kumamoto.jp\/english\/list.html\">to-ken<\/a> CIR, 2000-03). She starts<\/strong><\/em><em><strong> her day by watching Fujisankei\u2019s newscast in Japanese, and here she sha<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>r<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>es s<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>ome of the interesting tidb<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>its and t<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>rends together with her own observations.<\/strong><\/em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/ABPub\/2012\/03\/22\/2017819696.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"171\" height=\"168\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I am wrapping up a business trip here in Seattle, where the Japanese influence is huge.\u00a0 Not only do they have great Japanese shopping centers like Uwajimaya, located in the International District area, but they have Ichiro!\u00a0 The man himself is not here at the moment, having headed to Japan with the Mariners to play two exhibition games against Japanese teams before opening up the Major League season in two games against the Oakland A&#8217;s.\u00a0 All four games will be played in Tokyo.\u00a0 Today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/avantgo\/2017819559.html\">Seattle Times features an article<\/a> highlighting <!--more-->the Ichiro Museum that his parents run in his hometown outside Nagoya.\u00a0 Featuring items such as his high school bike and pictures from growing up, it sounds like a must-see for any Ichiro fan.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of Japanese famous sports figures, in the midst of Linsanity the name of a Japanese-American predecessor has repeatedly come up.\u00a0 This would be Utah-born 2nd generation Japanese-American Wat Misaka, the first person of color to be drafted into the NBA.\u00a0 He played for the Knicks in the 1940&#8217;s, amidst the extreme prejudice that Japanese-Americans were forced to endure (Misaka was not put in an internment camp, but he had friends who were sent to Topaz).\u00a0 You can read more about his amazing story as well as purchase the documentary which tells his story on <a href=\"www.watmisaka.com\">his website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. I am wrapping up a business trip here in Seattle, where the Japanese influence [&hellip;]<\/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":[18,36,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-translatinginterpreting","category-wit-life","category-writers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-6ki","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24322","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=24322"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24327,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24322\/revisions\/24327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}