{"id":7908,"date":"2009-08-05T16:06:41","date_gmt":"2009-08-05T20:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=7908"},"modified":"2009-08-05T16:30:07","modified_gmt":"2009-08-05T20:30:07","slug":"jetwit-blog-beat-by-crystal-wong-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2009\/08\/05\/jetwit-blog-beat-by-crystal-wong-6\/","title":{"rendered":"JetWit Blog Beat 8.5.09 by Crystal Wong"},"content":{"rendered":"

JetWit Blog Beat<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/span> by <\/em>Crystal Wong<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/a> (Iwate-ken, 2002-04)<\/em> <\/em><\/strong>is a recurring item featuring posts from the blogs of various JET alumni.\u00a0 Crystal is a former English-language writer for Kyodo News. She is now a freelance writer and digital strategist in New York and relishes her constant hunt for the best cheap(ish) eats in the city.<\/em><\/p>\n

Interesting post<\/a> from Dave Jacobson over at Chin Music Press<\/a> about the continuing lack of interest in Japan as a news story from mainstream media, despite it being the world’s second largest economy. Dave points out that this is a great opportunity for the smaller companies and bloggers who continue to produce great content on Japan. We here over at Blog Beat would be interested to hear your thoughts on this trend – Have you noticed this as well? What does it mean for Japan?\"Toby's+018\"<\/a><\/p>\n

JET alum Toby Weymiller<\/strong><\/a> reports<\/a> on the progress on his new house from Hokkaido – how extremely cool to track the construction of a new home!<\/p>\n

Also, check out a new addition to our blogroll\u00a0 – adventure writer Elizabeth White<\/strong><\/a> (Toyama-ken, 1995-98), lives in San Luis Obispo County and her new blog<\/a> is well worth reading as it details all the delicious delights of life in paradise (and its challenges, of course) with great writing and photos.<\/p>\n


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JetWit Blog Beat by Crystal Wong (Iwate-ken, 2002-04) is a recurring item featuring posts from the blogs of various JET alumni.\u00a0 Crystal is a former English-language writer for Kyodo News. She is now a freelance writer and digital strategist in New York and relishes her constant hunt for the best cheap(ish) eats in the city. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"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_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":[7,70,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-food-drink","category-writers"],"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