{"id":46027,"date":"2020-08-28T13:48:12","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T17:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=46027"},"modified":"2024-03-05T18:16:53","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T22:16:53","slug":"wit-life-345-%e6%b6%99%e6%b4%bb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2020\/08\/28\/wit-life-345-%e6%b6%99%e6%b4%bb\/","title":{"rendered":"WIT Life #345: \u6d99\u6d3b"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><strong>Interpreter\/Translator\/Writer<\/strong><\/em> <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/stacysmithinterpreting.com\">Stacy Smith<\/a>\u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pref.kumamoto.jp\/english\/list.html\">Kumamoto-ken<\/a>\u00a0CIR, 2000-03) presents <a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/category\/wit-life\/\">WIT Life<\/a>, 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 offers some interesting tidbits and trends along with her\u00a0own observations.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In recent days the Japanese news has been buzzing with news of PM Abe&#8217;s frequent hospital visits, and he officially resigned his post during today&#8217;s press conference.  In the midst of the coronavirus crisis, Abe determined that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/08\/28\/world\/asia\/shinzo-abe-resign-japan.html\" class=\"aioseop-link\">stepping down<\/a> due to a flareup of ulcerative collitis was the prudent choice.  Intense speculation is taking place as to who within the LDP will be named as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/08\/29\/world\/asia\/japan-new-prime-minister.html\" class=\"aioseop-link\">his successor<\/a>, to serve out the remainder of his term through next September.  Abe holds the record as Japan&#8217;s longest serving PM.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" src=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/index-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-46089\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If  this news brings you to tears consider crying therapy (\u6d99\u6d3b or ruikatsu), which I&#8217;ve previously introduced <a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=31405&amp;action=edit\" class=\"aioseop-link\">in this column<\/a>.  There are a slew of Japanese words that have been coined with the kanji for &#8220;activity&#8221; as a suffix (\u6d3b or katsu).  Some examples are trying to get pregnant (\u598a\u6d3b or <em>ninkatsu<\/em>), job searching (\u5c31\u6d3b or <em>shuukatsu<\/em>), and planning for one&#8217;s death (\u7d42\u6d3b or <em>shuukatsu<\/em>.  Incidentally, this has the same pronunciation as the previous one so be careful!).  Ruikatsu is the subject of the NYT featured op-doc <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/07\/28\/opinion\/tears-teacher-crying-japan.html\" class=\"aioseop-link\">Tears Teacher<\/a>.  Clocking in at less than 11 minutes, this short film is definitely worth a watch.  Enjoy and stay safe out there! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interpreter\/Translator\/Writer Stacy Smith\u00a0(Kumamoto-ken\u00a0CIR, 2000-03) presents WIT Life, 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 offers some interesting tidbits and trends along with her\u00a0own observations. In recent days the Japanese news has been buzzing with news of [&hellip;]<\/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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[263,18,1,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","category-translatinginterpreting","category-uncategorized","category-wit-life"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-bYn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46027","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=46027"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50465,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46027\/revisions\/50465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}