{"id":30441,"date":"2013-05-31T13:52:22","date_gmt":"2013-05-31T17:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=30441"},"modified":"2013-05-31T13:52:56","modified_gmt":"2013-05-31T17:52:56","slug":"jet-alum-roland-kelts-column-in-time-magazine-on-japans-identity-crisis-and-right-wing-rhetoric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2013\/05\/31\/jet-alum-roland-kelts-column-in-time-magazine-on-japans-identity-crisis-and-right-wing-rhetoric\/","title":{"rendered":"JET alum Roland Kelts column in Time Magazine on Japan&#8217;s Identity Crisis and Right-Wing Rhetoric"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>********<\/p>\n<p>A thought provoking article by\u00a0JET alum author and writer\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?s=Roland+Kelts\" target=\"_blank\">Roland Kelts<\/a><\/strong>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.osaka-info.jp\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\">Osaka-shi<\/a>, 1998-99)\u00a0from the current issue of\u00a0<em>Time Magazine.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/world.time.com\/2013\/05\/31\/the-identity-crisis-that-lurks-behind-japans-right-wing-rhetoric\/\"><strong>The Identity Crisis That Lurks Behind Japan\u2019s Right-Wing Rhetoric<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Japan is a country whose identity has been bowdlerized, hollowed out by a dream of Western dominance that no longer exists. It may make sense to see its recent surge in nationalism as a dumbed-down version of Japanese adolescence. This is a country spun around by its own single-minded pursuit of progress, and it has no idea who it\u2019s supposed to be today.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a link to the full article: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/world.time.com\/2013\/05\/31\/the-identity-crisis-that-lurks-behind-japans-right-wing-rhetoric\/\">http:\/\/world.time.com\/2013\/05\/31\/the-identity-crisis-that-lurks-behind-japans-right-wing-rhetoric\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>******** A thought provoking article by\u00a0JET alum author and writer\u00a0Roland Kelts(Osaka-shi, 1998-99)\u00a0from the current issue of\u00a0Time Magazine. The Identity Crisis That Lurks Behind Japan\u2019s Right-Wing Rhetoric Here&#8217;s a quote: &#8220;Japan is a country whose identity has been bowdlerized, hollowed out by a dream of Western dominance that no longer exists. It may make sense to [&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":[4,30,304,14,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articlejournalism","category-japan-trends","category-notable-jet-alums","category-roland-kelts","category-writers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-7UZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30441","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=30441"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30444,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30441\/revisions\/30444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}