{"id":2571,"date":"2009-01-08T15:50:37","date_gmt":"2009-01-08T15:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=2571"},"modified":"2009-01-08T16:25:31","modified_gmt":"2009-01-08T16:25:31","slug":"wit-life-16-home-for-the-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2009\/01\/08\/wit-life-16-home-for-the-holidays\/","title":{"rendered":"WIT Life #16: Home for the Holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/category\/wit-life\/\"><strong>WITLife<\/strong><\/a> is a periodic series written by professional Interpreter\/Translator\/Writer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stacysmith.webs.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Stacy Smith<\/strong><\/a> (Kumamoto-ken, 2000-03).\u00a0 In her recent posts, she\u2019s been watching the news in Japanese and sharing some of the interesting tidbits and trends together with her own observations.<\/em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodak.com\/US\/images\/en\/corp\/1000words\/shibino\/1_table_shot.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"151\" height=\"199\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s news discussed Japanese travel trends during the New Year\u2019s holiday, and it turns out that 2.87 million people passed through Tokyo\u2019s domestic Haneda Airport during this time.  Many were taking part in what\u2019s called the u-turn rush, or the phenomenon of people returning to Tokyo and other big cities from their hometowns at the end of a holiday season.  According to the survey, 84% were u-turning and 16% were coming back from places like Guam and South Korea where they could take advantage of the strong yen.<\/p>\n<p>This piece did a check of what kind of <em>omiyage<\/em> people had received from their families.  A young man from Okinawa had two large cheesecakes his mother had baked for him.  A man from Kagoshima held <!--more-->lobsters he had gotten from a local fisherman.  Two families from Kumamoto (my old stomping ground) were interviewed, one with 60 packs of <em>age<\/em> (fried bean curd) and the other with a suitcase holding <em>umeboshi <\/em>(pickled plums), <em>katsuobushi<\/em> (dried bonito), leftover <em>mochi<\/em> and carrots from their parents\u2019 garden.<\/p>\n<p>Another woman lugged home a printer, explaining that her parents no longer used it and why let it go to waste?  The final subject profiled had a suitcase filled with 50 types of <em>omiyage<\/em> ranging from <em>miso<\/em> to <em>senbei <\/em>that weighed almost 80 pounds!  Her mother lovingly showed the checklist she used to make sure that nothing had been forgotten.<\/p>\n<p>I thought my habit of raiding my parents\u2019 house for paper goods was one I needed to break, but compared to the loot Japanese families carry home I don\u2019t feel so bad anymore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WITLife is a periodic series written by professional Interpreter\/Translator\/Writer Stacy Smith (Kumamoto-ken, 2000-03).\u00a0 In her recent posts, she\u2019s been watching the news in Japanese and sharing some of the interesting tidbits and trends together with her own observations. Today\u2019s news discussed Japanese travel trends during the New Year\u2019s holiday, and it turns out that 2.87 [&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":[9,30,18,36,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-japan-trends","category-translatinginterpreting","category-wit-life","category-writers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-Ft","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2571","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=2571"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2584,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2571\/revisions\/2584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}