{"id":44322,"date":"2019-02-28T14:48:33","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T18:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=44322"},"modified":"2019-03-12T13:28:38","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T17:28:38","slug":"wit-life-333-kazu-miuras-longevity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2019\/02\/28\/wit-life-333-kazu-miuras-longevity\/","title":{"rendered":"WIT Life #333: King Kazu"},"content":{"rendered":"

Written by professional Writer\/Interpreter\/Translator\u00a0Stacy 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. 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.\"\"<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The sports portion of today’s Japanese news showcased the celebration of Kazu Miura’s 52nd birthday<\/a>.\u00a0 Looking as dapper as ever in a fashionable white suit in front of a huge cake, he shared that every birthday he wore a different color suit (past years have included bright red, yellow and blue), but that he had run out of colors so had to return to white.\u00a0 Perhaps it is this enthusiasm and youthful spirit that enables him to keep pace on the soccer field with professional players decades his junior.\u00a0 Miura (a.k.a. “King Kazu”) began his career in 1986, and he is considered to be Japan\u2019s first soccer superstar.<\/p>\n

He was the subject of a NYT profile<\/a> last year, in which he was described as the epitome of \u201caging productively.\u201d\u00a0 It also discusses his lifelong pursuit of \u69d8\u5f0f\u7f8e (youshikibi<\/em>, beauty of form or stylistic beauty), similar to his fellow countryman Ichiro Suzuki of the Seattle Mariners who is 45 years old.\u00a0 It is indeed inspiring to see these men continue to have successful careers at a point when athletes are usually considered past their prime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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. 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. The sports portion of today’s Japanese news showcased the celebration of Kazu […]<\/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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18,1,36,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-translatinginterpreting","category-uncategorized","category-wit-life","category-writers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t