{"id":7424,"date":"2009-07-16T08:38:04","date_gmt":"2009-07-16T12:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=7424"},"modified":"2009-07-16T08:38:21","modified_gmt":"2009-07-16T12:38:21","slug":"j-news-mini-roundup-insert-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/16\/j-news-mini-roundup-insert-title\/","title":{"rendered":"J-News Mini-Roundup: Dealing with Disasters in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"

J-News Mini-Roundup<\/em><\/strong><\/a> is a recurring feature written by Friend Of JET, Jon Hills<\/strong>, who maintains the blog for Hills Learning<\/strong> (<\/em>www.hillslearning.com<\/em><\/a>). <\/em><\/p>\n

Hills Learning is a NY-based language learning services company offering customized and personal Japanese language learning options. Their main service is private one on one Japanese language lessons in the NYC area, where the student chooses where and when to have lessons. They’ve also recently expanded to include the Korean and Chinese languages.\"earthquake\"<\/em><\/p>\n

Background:<\/strong> For most Americans, more specifically Americans who come from states not on the Pacific Coast, the most frightening part of living in Japan is an Earthquake. Most people when they travel to Japan experience earthquakes for the first time, and wonder just how fragile the land they\u2019re standing on is. The biggest Earthquake I experienced was a 5+, and it shut down the subway for about 2 hours leaving 2-3 million commuters stranded.<\/p>\n

Earthquakes and natural disasters are ubiquitous throughout Japanese media and movies. Dealing with disasters is part of their lives, in particular earthquakes, but also from today\u2019s news articles other disasters as well. Each newspaper wrote about a different tragedy Japanese people are working to overcome.<\/p>\n

Asahi<\/strong> \u201cMountain Expedition Leads to Disaster for 17 Climbers\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

(CLICK HERE for the rest of the article, that includes Japanese News Summaries<\/a>)<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

J-News Mini-Roundup is a recurring feature written by Friend Of JET, Jon Hills, who maintains the blog for Hills Learning (www.hillslearning.com). Hills Learning is a NY-based language learning services company offering customized and personal Japanese language learning options. Their main service is private one on one Japanese language lessons in the NYC area, where the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"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