{"id":4655,"date":"2009-04-01T16:59:55","date_gmt":"2009-04-01T16:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=4655"},"modified":"2009-04-01T18:03:57","modified_gmt":"2009-04-01T18:03:57","slug":"j-news-mini-roundup-the-economic-downturn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2009\/04\/01\/j-news-mini-roundup-the-economic-downturn\/","title":{"rendered":"J-News Mini-Roundup:  The Economic Downturn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/pequenoscinerastas.files.wordpress.com\/2007\/05\/kim-jong-il_01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"181\" height=\"213\" \/>J-News Mini-Roundup <\/strong>is a recurring feature written by Friend Of JET,<strong> Jon Hills<\/strong>, founder of <strong>Hills Learning<\/strong> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hillslearning.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.hillslearning.com<\/a>).\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hillslearning.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Hills Learning<\/strong><\/a> is a NY-based language learning services company offering customized and personal Japanese language learning options.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>The Economic Downturn and its Effects:\u00a0 Most Pessimistic to Most Optimistic<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>4<\/strong><strong> &#8211; NHK:<\/strong> The biggest news on economic glum came from the NHK news station today. Within the financial community the highly anticipated &#8220;Tankan Survey&#8221; done by the Bank of Japan stated record pessimism amongst company executives. <strong>61% <\/strong>stated their companies were doing poorly, while only 3% stated they were doing well. This measure is the worst it&#8217;s been since the survey&#8217;s inception, about 30 years ago.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3 &#8211; Nikkei:<\/strong> Not to be outdone, the Nikkei then reported that bankruptcies from listed companies in 2008 had reached <strong>45<\/strong>. This is the highest rate of bankruptcies since WWII. To underscore this point, the second worst year of bankruptcies in Japan was 2002, with only 22 bankruptcies.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2 &#8211; Asahi: <\/strong>The Asahi ran a headliner this morning about how lay offs and the economic downturn are good for some companies. Reporting from within the headquarters of a recruiting agency that hires part time workers ( \u00a0a company called \u3042\u305a) executives were rejoicing on how this is their chance to get more recruits for part time work than ever before. They referred to the &#8220;\u30d5\u30ea\u30fc\u30bf\u30fc\u9b42&#8221; the furi-ta- or &#8220;seasonal worker&#8221; spirit!<\/p>\n<p><strong>1 &#8211; Yomiuri: <\/strong>The headlines at Yomiuri this morning topped the optimism radar. They made no mention of an economic downturn, but instead decided to focus on North Korea. So you&#8217;re probably expecting some kind of article regarding missile launches accidently dropping missiles on Japan? Nope, the headliner read: Kim Jong Ill&#8217;s thinness is due to dieting, he&#8217;s getting thin due to health reasons.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>J-News Mini-Roundup is a recurring feature written by Friend Of JET, Jon Hills, founder of Hills Learning (www.hillslearning.com).\u00a0 Hills Learning is a NY-based language learning services company offering customized and personal Japanese language learning options. The Economic Downturn and its Effects:\u00a0 Most Pessimistic to Most Optimistic 4 &#8211; NHK: The biggest news on economic glum [&hellip;]<\/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":[30,18,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan-trends","category-translatinginterpreting","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-1d5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4655","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=4655"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4668,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4655\/revisions\/4668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}