{"id":5174,"date":"2009-04-16T16:45:40","date_gmt":"2009-04-16T16:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=5174"},"modified":"2009-04-16T16:45:40","modified_gmt":"2009-04-16T16:45:40","slug":"nytimes-young-japanese-head-to-inaka-for-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2009\/04\/16\/nytimes-young-japanese-head-to-inaka-for-work\/","title":{"rendered":"NYTimes:  Young Japanese head to inaka for work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/04\/16\/business\/global\/16farmer.html?emc=eta1\" target=\"_blank\">Interesting article<\/a> in today&#8217;s <em>NY Times<\/em> about how a lot of young Japanese adults are heading to the <em>inaka<\/em> to work on farms.\u00a0 This simultaneously helps with some of the unemployment in Japan and also helps replace a lot of the aging farm workforce and perhaps even in terms of improving inefficient farming processes.<\/p>\n<p>Demographic shifts also tend to have other consequences as well.\u00a0 I wonder if any current JETs out there are seeing this trend first hand.\u00a0 And I wonder if there might be any impact on the JET experience or even the JET Program in some way over time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/04\/16\/business\/global\/16farmer.html?emc=eta1\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/04\/16\/business\/global\/16farmer.html?emc=eta1<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting article in today&#8217;s NY Times about how a lot of young Japanese adults are heading to the inaka to work on farms.\u00a0 This simultaneously helps with some of the unemployment in Japan and also helps replace a lot of the aging farm workforce and perhaps even in terms of improving inefficient farming processes. Demographic [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan-trends"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-1ls","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5174","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=5174"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5176,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5174\/revisions\/5176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}