{"id":32098,"date":"2013-09-22T17:07:57","date_gmt":"2013-09-22T21:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=32098"},"modified":"2013-09-22T17:09:04","modified_gmt":"2013-09-22T21:09:04","slug":"justins-japan-nippon-in-new-york-martial-arts-hayao-miyazaki-and-evangelion-at-comic-con","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2013\/09\/22\/justins-japan-nippon-in-new-york-martial-arts-hayao-miyazaki-and-evangelion-at-comic-con\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin’s Japan: Nippon in New York \u2014 Martial Arts, Hayao Miyazaki and \u2018Evangelion\u2019 at Comic Con"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Wind Rises<\/em>, the latest film from director Hayao Miyazaki, has its U.S. premiere at New York’s Alice Tully Hall Sept. 28. (Studio Ghibli)<\/p><\/div>\n

By<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0JQ\u00a0magazine<\/em><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0editor\u00a0Justin Tedaldi<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>(CIR\u00a0Kobe-shi<\/a>, 2001-02) for Examiner.com. Visit his Japanese culture page\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0for related stories.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Saturday, Sept. 28, 3:00 p.m.<\/b><\/p>\n

All American Open International Karate Championships<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

Hunter College Sportsplex<\/a>, 68th Street and Lexington Avenue<\/b><\/p>\n

$30 general admission\/$65 RES floor\/$80 VIP ringside<\/b><\/p>\n

Get your kicks at this annual event presented by Kyokushin Karate New York<\/a>, the original and world renowned full-contact knockdown karate style founded in 1953 by Grandmaster Mas Oyama. The All American Open consistently brings the world’s best karate fighters to compete for the amateur athletic championship title. Scheduled fighters Include 2012 All American Open champion Zahari Damyanov, Women\u2019s World Middleweight champion Julie Lamarre, and Men\u2019s World Heavyweight champion Alejandro Navarro.<\/p>\n

Sept. 28 & Oct. 4<\/b><\/p>\n

The Wind Rises<\/a><\/i><\/b><\/b><\/p>\n

Alice Tully Hall, 1941 Broadway<\/b><\/p>\n

$13<\/b><\/p>\n

U.S. premiere! As part of the 51st New York Film Festival<\/a>, the great Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki\u2019s new (and reportedly final<\/a>) Studio Ghibli film is based on the life of Jiro Horikoshi, the man who designed the Zero<\/a> fighter operated by the Imperial Japanese Navy from 1940 to 1945. An elliptical historical narrative, The Wind Rises<\/i> is also a visionary cinematic poem about the fragility of humanity, starring the voice of Neon Genesis Evangelion<\/i> director Hideaki Anno! Presented in Japanese with English subtitles.<\/i><\/p>\n

Sept. 29, 5:00 p.m.<\/b><\/p>\n

Rainbow Bubble Girls Open Audition as Talent Contest<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

Maid Cafe NY<\/a>, 150 Centre Street<\/b><\/p>\n

Free<\/b><\/p>\n

Girl group Rainbow Bubble<\/a>, an international all-girl idol group based in New York, is now looking for new members who can sing in different languages and dance. This current contest (which precludes semi-finals and finals to come) offers a top prize valued at $500 and a chance to receive an exclusive artist contract! Click here<\/a> for contest rules and email StarGenerationsINC@gmail.com<\/a> to pre-register.<\/p>\n

For the complete story, click here<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By\u00a0JQ\u00a0magazine\u00a0editor\u00a0Justin Tedaldi\u00a0(CIR\u00a0Kobe-shi, 2001-02) for Examiner.com. Visit his Japanese culture page\u00a0here\u00a0for related stories. Saturday, Sept. 28, 3:00 p.m. All American Open International Karate Championships Hunter College Sportsplex, 68th Street and Lexington Avenue $30 general admission\/$65 RES floor\/$80 VIP ringside Get your kicks at this annual event presented by Kyokushin Karate New York, the original and world […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[4,53,263,340],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articlejournalism","category-events","category-film","category-justins-japan"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-8lI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32098","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32098"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32102,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32098\/revisions\/32102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}