{"id":42394,"date":"2018-01-05T12:01:46","date_gmt":"2018-01-05T16:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=42394"},"modified":"2018-01-05T12:04:47","modified_gmt":"2018-01-05T16:04:47","slug":"wit-life-320-%e3%82%a2%e3%82%b1%e3%82%aa%e3%83%a1%ef%bc%81","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2018\/01\/05\/wit-life-320-%e3%82%a2%e3%82%b1%e3%82%aa%e3%83%a1%ef%bc%81\/","title":{"rendered":"WIT Life #320: \u30a2\u30b1\u30aa\u30e1\uff01"},"content":{"rendered":"

Written by professional Writer\/Interpreter\/Trans<\/strong><\/em>lator\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>Stacy Smith<\/a>\u00a0(Kumamo<\/a>to-ken<\/a>\u00a0CIR, 2000-03),\u00a0WIT Life<\/a>\u00a0is a periodic series about aspects of Japanese culture such as film, food and language.\u00a0 Stacy starts her day by watching\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>Fujisankei\u2019s newscast in Japanese, and he<\/strong><\/em>re she shares some interesting tidbits and trends along with h<\/strong><\/em>er<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0own observatio<\/strong><\/em>ns.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\u660e\u3051\u307e\u3057\u3066\u304a\u3081\u3067\u3068\u3046\u3054\u3056\u3044\u307e\u3059\uff01 A happy new year of the dog to everyone. This post’s title (Ake ome<\/em>!) is the abbreviated version of the official Japanese new year greeting (Akemashite omedetou gozaimasu!<\/em>). Surprisingly, two of my senpai had never heard of this colloquialism before. Perhaps I’m dating myself but I remember it being popular to say during the time I lived in Japan, though I’m not so sure about now (and maybe it wasn’t around when my older colleagues spent time in Japan).<\/p>\n

My previous post<\/a> discussed the kanji of the year (\u5317, kita<\/em> or north), and I just came across an article highlighting some of Japan’s 2017 buzzwords<\/a>.<\/p>\n

One was \u5fd6\u5ea6 (sontaku<\/em>), or the preemptive, placatory following of an order that has not been given. This phenomenon is seen in both government and private sectors, and according to the Financial Times it “resonates well in explaining Japan in the era of Shinzo Abe.” A 2017 term which we can expect to hear a lot of in 2018 is \u50cd\u304d\u65b9\u6539\u9769 (hatarakikata kaikaku)<\/em> or work-style reform, and this reflects the issue of poor labor practices that in extreme cases can lead to \u904e\u52b4\u6b7b (karoushi<\/em>), or working oneself to death. Effort is being made to reduce working hours and improve efficiency, but employees on the news complained that when the workload is the same they struggle to get everything done in time. This reminds me of Premium Friday<\/a>, another well-intentioned initiative introduced last spring that we don’t hear much about these days. Finally, on the lighter side we have \u30a4\u30f3\u30b9\u30bf\u6620\u3048 (Insta-bae<\/em>) or Instagrammability, an essential part of enhancing one’s social media presence that doesn’t seem to be dying out anytime soon.<\/p>\n

It will be exciting to see what new trends we find in Japan in 2018.\u00a0 \u4eca\u5e74\u3082\u3088\u308d\u3057\u304f\u304a\u9858\u3044\u3057\u307e\u3059\uff01<\/p>\n

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Written by professional Writer\/Interpreter\/Translator\u00a0Stacy Smith\u00a0(Kumamoto-ken\u00a0CIR, 2000-03),\u00a0WIT Life\u00a0is a periodic series about aspects of Japanese culture such as film, food and language.\u00a0 Stacy starts her day by watching\u00a0Fujisankei\u2019s newscast in Japanese, and here she shares some interesting tidbits and trends along with her\u00a0own observations. \u660e\u3051\u307e\u3057\u3066\u304a\u3081\u3067\u3068\u3046\u3054\u3056\u3044\u307e\u3059\uff01 A happy new year of the dog to everyone. This post’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-translatinginterpreting","category-wit-life"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-b1M","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42394","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42394"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42404,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42394\/revisions\/42404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}