Tokyo Tower<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, later made into drama and movie versions (which I liked so much that I’m now reading the book and enjoying it just as much).<\/p>\n*News of this year\u2019s nesting phenomenon <\/strong>continues, and two trends regarding Christmas cakes are \u201cmini\u201d and \u201cluxurious.\u201d <\/span>Mini cakes as small as 5-10 cm in diameter are wildly popular, as people would rather be able to try several different kinds instead of just one. <\/span>On the other hand, high-end Christmas cake is also selling well. <\/span>Whereas your typical strawberry shortcake goes for 500 yen, these luxury cakes are as much as 2,500 yen each. <\/span><\/p>\nAs one consumer explained, \u201cThis is something I buy only once a year so I might as well go all out!\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WITLife is a periodic series written by professional Interpreter\/Translator\/Writer Stacy Smith (Kumamoto-ken, 2000-03).\u00a0 In her recent posts, she’s been watching the news in Japanese and sharing some of the interesting tidbits and trends together with her own observations. Today (already yesterday in Japan) celebrated the birthday of two of this country\u2019s fixtures, the Emperor and […]<\/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":[30,18,1,36,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan-trends","category-translatinginterpreting","category-uncategorized","category-wit-life","category-writers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-Ef","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495","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=2495"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2499,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495\/revisions\/2499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/a>WITLife<\/strong><\/a> is a periodic series written by professional Interpreter\/Translator\/Writer Stacy Smith<\/strong><\/a> (Kumamoto-ken, 2000-03).\u00a0 In her recent posts, she’s been watching the news in Japanese and sharing some of the interesting tidbits and trends together with her own observations.<\/em><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.dvdonline.com.au\/images\/IMG_5488.JPG\")
Tokyo Tower has recently undergone renovations such as a new elevator and new illumination, and author Lili Frank <\/strong>was on hand to offer greetings at its 50th<\/sup> anniversary party.