{"id":3046,"date":"2009-01-28T19:23:09","date_gmt":"2009-01-28T19:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=3046"},"modified":"2009-01-28T19:23:09","modified_gmt":"2009-01-28T19:23:09","slug":"japaninfo-e-newsletter-january-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2009\/01\/28\/japaninfo-e-newsletter-january-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"JapanInfo e-Newsletter &#8211; January 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"alignleft\"> <\/span><span class=\"alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/wp-content\/themes\/elegant-brit-b\/images\/comicon.gif\" alt=\"\" \/> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/editor.ne16.com\/he\/vo.aspx?FileID=d4ab3d3c-ea5d-4c50-b4f9-310ac821ae8b&amp;MemberID=181333477&amp;MailID=8373518\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ny.us.emb-japan.go.jp\/image\/banner_japaninfo.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"91\" height=\"45\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/editor.ne16.com\/he\/vo.aspx?FileID=d4ab3d3c-ea5d-4c50-b4f9-310ac821ae8b&amp;MemberID=181333477&amp;MailID=8373518\" target=\"_blank\">January 2009 edition of <em><strong>JapanInfo<\/strong><\/em><\/a> is now available.\u00a0 <em>JapanInfo<\/em> is published by the Consulate General of Japan in New York\/Japan Information Center and is a great source of info for Japan-related things going on in New York and the surrounding area.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Highlights include<\/strong><\/span>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ne16.com\/t\/8373518\/205854379\/50682174\/0\/\" target=\"_blank\">Statistical Overview on Americans and Foreigners Living In Japan<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nAccording to recent statistics from the Ministry of Justice, there are over two million foreigners living in Japan, or 1.69% of the total population (approximately 130 million). Compared to ten years ago, the number of foreign residents increased 45.2%, while the total population of Japan (including foreign residents) showed only a 1.3% increase.   <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/editor.ne16.com\/nycgj\/btn_ya.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"8\" height=\"11\" \/><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ne16.com\/t\/8373518\/205854379\/50682174\/0\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ne16.com\/t\/8373518\/205854379\/50682177\/0\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/editor.ne16.com\/nycgj\/ttl_ambas.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Ambassador Desk\" width=\"251\" height=\"30\" \/><\/a><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ne16.com\/t\/8373518\/205854379\/50682177\/0\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/editor.ne16.com\/nycgj\/btn_ya_bg.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"30\" height=\"30\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/editor.ne16.com\/nycgj\/bl_line_600.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" height=\"1\" \/> Happy New Year! I hope that 2009 will be a good one for us all.<br \/>\nThe start of the New Year is the perfect time to take stock of the past and reassess the future. Since I took office, I have put my energy into changing the mindset of our staff, and providing better service,&#8230; With an ear for our visitors&#8217; suggestions, all of us at the Consulate are determined to continue our efforts, so that the Consulate is even more accessible to everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The January 2009 edition of JapanInfo is now available.\u00a0 JapanInfo is published by the Consulate General of Japan in New York\/Japan Information Center and is a great source of info for Japan-related things going on in New York and the surrounding area. Highlights include: Statistical Overview on Americans and Foreigners Living In Japan According 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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-N8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3046","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=3046"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3048,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3046\/revisions\/3048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}