{"id":3137,"date":"2009-01-31T04:20:44","date_gmt":"2009-01-31T04:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=3137"},"modified":"2009-01-31T04:20:44","modified_gmt":"2009-01-31T04:20:44","slug":"hikaru-utada-interview-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2009\/01\/31\/hikaru-utada-interview-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Hikaru Utada interview update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-5763788839922114\";\n\/* JetWit Post Banner 468x60, created 1\/29\/09 *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"4716350290\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 468;\ngoogle_ad_height = 60;\n\/\/ --><\/script><br \/>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lyricsreg.com\/fw_images\/artists\/utadahikaru.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"178\" height=\"245\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It turns out that the phone interview that <a href=\"http:\/\/jetaany.org\/magazine\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>JETAA NY Quarterly Magazine<\/strong><\/a> editor <strong>Justin Tedaldi<\/strong> (CIR Kobe-shi, 2001-02) had scheduled with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hikaru_Utada\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Hikaru Utada<\/strong><\/a> for 1pm on Friday was a mistake&#8211;they actually wanted him to do it in person!<\/p>\n<p>So Justin headed out (did his boss know where he was going?) and spent an hour or so chatting away with &#8220;Hikki&#8221; and asking her various questions he had requested and collected from readers via the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2009\/01\/29\/ask-hikaru-utada-a-question\/\">&#8220;Ask Hikaru a Question!&#8221; JetWit post<\/a><\/strong> that ran on Thursday.\u00a0 Utada&#8217;s parents even showed up at the end giving Justin a chance to chat with Hikaru&#8217;s dad for a short while.<\/p>\n<p>The article will run in the Spring 2009 issue of the <a href=\"http:\/\/jetaany.org\/magazine\" target=\"_blank\">JETAA NY Quarterly Magazine<\/a>.\u00a0 But there may be some recorded clips of the interview posted here on JetWit as well as on the <a href=\"http:\/\/jetaany.org\" target=\"_blank\">jetaany.org<\/a> sometime in the next month.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, JetWit web traffic spiked mightily over the last two days as a result of the Utada posting on Thursday.\u00a0 It turns out that once word got out of Justin&#8217;s JETAA NY interview with Utada, a number of fans posted the item in the comments sections of several Utada-related blogs.\u00a0 Make sure to read the first one below which includes an entertaining discussion among several people of good questions to ask Utada as well as whether to submit a question even though they&#8217;re not JETs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hikaru.sc\/showthread.php?t=2265\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/hikaru.sc\/showthread.php?t=2265<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.utada2.net\/?p=723\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/blog.utada2.net\/?p=723<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.utada2.net\/?p=712\" target=\"_blank\"> http:\/\/blog.utada2.net\/?p=712<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jbbs.livedoor.jp\/bbs\/link.cgi?url=https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2009\/01\/29\/ask-hikaru-utada-a-question\/\" target=\"_blank\"> http:\/\/jbbs.livedoor.jp\/bbs\/link.cgi?url=https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2009\/01\/29\/ask-hikaru-utada-a-question\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out that the phone interview that JETAA NY Quarterly Magazine editor Justin Tedaldi (CIR Kobe-shi, 2001-02) had scheduled with Hikaru Utada for 1pm on Friday was a mistake&#8211;they actually wanted him to do it in person! 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