{"id":2456,"date":"2008-12-21T03:52:47","date_gmt":"2008-12-21T03:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=2456"},"modified":"2008-12-21T03:53:42","modified_gmt":"2008-12-21T03:53:42","slug":"jet-and-the-japanese-practice-ethic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2008\/12\/21\/jet-and-the-japanese-practice-ethic\/","title":{"rendered":"JET and the Japanese practice ethic"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Two stories stand out in my mind when I think about the Japanese practice ethic:<\/p>\n

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  1. I used to occasionally play with the ping-pong club in one of my junior high schools.\u00a0 After playing a couple matches with the 2nd and 3rd years, I noticed some 1st years in the hallway adjacent to the gym.\u00a0 I went over to talk to them and realized that they were all standing in a line, holding their paddles, and practicing their swing at an imaginary ping-pong ball over and over for an hour.<\/li>\n
  2. My friend who was an ALT in the high schools in my town decided to participate in the kyudo<\/em> (Japanese archery) club.\u00a0 He learned that for the first three months the students don’t even touch a bow.\u00a0 They just practice the arm movements with an imaginary bow.\u00a0 Then the next three months they have a bow but no arrow and they practice the movements over and over before they finally learn with an arrow.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    These stories always fascinated me.\u00a0 I think they get at some of the fundamental cultural differences between Japan and the U.S. (or most other countries for that reason.<\/p>\n

    What “practice” stories or observations or memories from JET days do you have?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

    You can send an e-mail to jetwit \/atto\/ jetwit \/dotto\/ com<\/a><\/span> or just post as a comment below<\/span>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Two stories stand out in my mind when I think about the Japanese practice ethic: I used to occasionally play with the ping-pong club in one of my junior high schools.\u00a0 After playing a couple matches with the 2nd and 3rd years, I noticed some 1st years in the hallway adjacent to the gym.\u00a0 I […]<\/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_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":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anecdote-article"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-DC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2456"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2459,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456\/revisions\/2459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}