{"id":2971,"date":"2009-01-26T19:55:58","date_gmt":"2009-01-26T19:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=2971"},"modified":"2009-01-26T19:57:11","modified_gmt":"2009-01-26T19:57:11","slug":"ministry-of-foreign-affairs-manga-contest-meredith-hodges-boos-submission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2009\/01\/26\/ministry-of-foreign-affairs-manga-contest-meredith-hodges-boos-submission\/","title":{"rendered":"Ministry of Foreign Affairs Manga Contest: Meredith Hodges-Boos’ submission"},"content":{"rendered":"

Writer and artist Meredith Hodges-Boos<\/strong><\/a> (Ehime-ken, 2003-05) recently submitted the below entry for the manga contest sponsored by Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs<\/a>, a contest which I’m guessing ties in with Prime Minister Taro Aso’s<\/strong> “manga diplomacy” (explained in more detail in NPR’s 10\/3\/08 interview with Roland Kelts<\/strong> (Osaka, 1998-99)<\/a>.\u00a0 I encourage everyone to take look at Meredith’s wonderful work that pays homage to the JET Program as well as to the world of manga.\u00a0 (Suggestion<\/span>:\u00a0 Click the button at the bottom of the video player to expand the screen so you can read the dialogue.)<\/p>\n

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Writer and artist Meredith Hodges-Boos (Ehime-ken, 2003-05) recently submitted the below entry for the manga contest sponsored by Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a contest which I’m guessing ties in with Prime Minister Taro Aso’s “manga diplomacy” (explained in more detail in NPR’s 10\/3\/08 interview with Roland Kelts (Osaka, 1998-99).\u00a0 I encourage everyone to take […]<\/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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12,19,30,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cartoonillustration","category-contest","category-japan-trends","category-writers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t