{"id":6863,"date":"2009-06-12T10:22:31","date_gmt":"2009-06-12T14:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=6863"},"modified":"2009-06-12T10:30:03","modified_gmt":"2009-06-12T14:30:03","slug":"roland-kelts-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2009\/06\/12\/roland-kelts-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Roland Kelts update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/japanamerica.blogspot.com\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.plasticbamboo.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/japanamerica.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"218\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/japanamerica.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\">Roland Kelts<\/a> (Osaka-shi, 1998-99)<\/strong>, author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.japanamericabook.com\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Japanamerica<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, has been keeping busy.\u00a0 JetWit just hasn&#8217;t been able to keep up.\u00a0 So here are some recent highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A recent <em><strong>Daily Yomiuri SOFT POWER\/HARD TRUTHS <\/strong><\/em>column about a symposium on the state of the anime\/manga industry and some of the challenges it faces, which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/3am-asia-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">you can see on <\/a><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/3am-asia-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">3:00 A.M. Magazine<\/a><\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 The column touches on the shifting market as well as the unsustainable nature of the way anime\/manga workers are compensated.<\/li>\n<li>Giving a speech at book-signing event in <strong>Kyoto <\/strong>next weekend as part of a <a href=\"http:\/\/creativewriting.jp\/special\/lecture40.html\" target=\"_blank\">Creative Writing Lecture Series<\/a>.\u00a0 (A good event for any JETs or JET alums in the area!\u00a0 If you go, say hi to Roland and feel free to <a href=\"mailto:jetwit@jetwit.com\">report back to JetWit<\/a> on the event.)<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Japanamerica<\/strong><\/em> is <a href=\"http:\/\/japanamerica.blogspot.com\/2009\/04\/japanamerica-out-now-on-kindle.html\" target=\"_blank\">now available on <strong>Kindle<\/strong><\/a>!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roland Kelts (Osaka-shi, 1998-99), author of Japanamerica, has been keeping busy.\u00a0 JetWit just hasn&#8217;t been able to keep up.\u00a0 So here are some recent highlights: A recent Daily Yomiuri SOFT POWER\/HARD TRUTHS column about a symposium on the state of the anime\/manga industry and some of the challenges it faces, which you can see on [&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":[4,7,40,12,26,30,14,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articlejournalism","category-blogs","category-books","category-cartoonillustration","category-celebrity","category-japan-trends","category-roland-kelts","category-writers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-1MH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6863","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=6863"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6865,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6863\/revisions\/6865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}