{"id":3757,"date":"2009-02-23T20:05:46","date_gmt":"2009-02-23T20:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=3757"},"modified":"2009-02-23T20:11:09","modified_gmt":"2009-02-23T20:11:09","slug":"soft-power-hard-truths-from-akihabara-to-katsucon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2009\/02\/23\/soft-power-hard-truths-from-akihabara-to-katsucon\/","title":{"rendered":"Soft Power, Hard Truths:  From Akihabara to Katsucon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.japanamericabook.com\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.plasticbamboo.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/japanamerica.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"172\" height=\"162\" \/><\/a>The latest <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/japanamerica.blogspot.com\/2009\/02\/from-akihabara-to-katsucon.html\" target=\"_blank\">Soft Power, Hard Truths Daily Yomiuri column<\/a><\/strong> from <a href=\"http:\/\/japanamerica.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Roland Kelts<\/strong><\/a> (author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.japanamericabook.com\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Japanamerica<\/em><\/a>) in which he describes taking his Tokyo U. students on a field trip to Akihabara (i.e., the heart of otaku culture) reflecting on their reactions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest Soft Power, Hard Truths Daily Yomiuri column from Roland Kelts (author of Japanamerica) in which he describes taking his Tokyo U. students on a field trip to Akihabara (i.e., the heart of otaku culture) reflecting on their reactions.<\/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":[4,40,26,30,14,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articlejournalism","category-books","category-celebrity","category-japan-trends","category-roland-kelts","category-writers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-YB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3757","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=3757"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3759,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3757\/revisions\/3759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}