{"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&#8217; submission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Writer and artist <a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/library\/authorsbooks\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Meredith Hodges-Boos<\/strong><\/a> (Ehime-ken, 2003-05) recently submitted the below entry for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mofa.go.jp\/policy\/culture\/manga\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">manga contest sponsored by Japan&#8217;s Ministry of Foreign Affairs<\/a>, a contest which I&#8217;m guessing ties in with <strong>Prime Minister Taro Aso&#8217;s<\/strong> &#8220;manga diplomacy&#8221; (explained in more detail in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onthemedia.org\/transcripts\/2008\/10\/03\/09\" target=\"_blank\">NPR&#8217;s 10\/3\/08 interview with <strong>Roland Kelts<\/strong> (Osaka, 1998-99)<\/a>.\u00a0 I encourage everyone to take look at Meredith&#8217;s wonderful work that pays homage to the JET Program as well as to the world of manga.\u00a0 (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">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<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"554\" height=\"346\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"id\" value=\"MangaViewer\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAcess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"quality\" value=\"best\" \/><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"player_xml=\/manga\/player\/2568764.html&amp;playlist_xml=\/manga\/playlist\/1459944.html&amp;orig_url=\/darthmermer\/manga\/2568764.html\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/tokyopop.com\/mangaplayer?player_xml=\/manga\/player\/2568764.html&amp;playlist_xml=\/manga\/playlist\/1459944.html&amp;orig_url=\/darthmermer\/manga\/2568764.html\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writer and artist Meredith Hodges-Boos (Ehime-ken, 2003-05) recently submitted the below entry for the manga contest sponsored by Japan&#8217;s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a contest which I&#8217;m guessing ties in with Prime Minister Taro Aso&#8217;s &#8220;manga diplomacy&#8221; (explained in more detail in NPR&#8217;s 10\/3\/08 interview with Roland Kelts (Osaka, 1998-99).\u00a0 I encourage everyone to take [&hellip;]<\/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":[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":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-LV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2971","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=2971"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2974,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2971\/revisions\/2974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}