{"id":10235,"date":"2012-11-07T10:27:24","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T17:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=10235"},"modified":"2012-11-07T10:27:24","modified_gmt":"2012-11-07T17:27:24","slug":"godzilla-in-shinjuku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2012\/11\/godzilla-in-shinjuku\/","title":{"rendered":"Godzilla in Shinjuku"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/01144349-hideki-matsui-fire-shinjuku-giant-godzilla.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/01144349-hideki-matsui-fire-shinjuku-giant-godzilla-542x800.jpg\" alt=\"\u30d3\u30c3\u30b0\u30de\u30c4\u30a4 Big Matsui kirin canned coffee promo\" title=\"hideki matsui fire shinjuku giant godzilla\" width=\"542\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/01144349-hideki-matsui-fire-shinjuku-giant-godzilla-542x800.jpg 542w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/01144349-hideki-matsui-fire-shinjuku-giant-godzilla-169x250.jpg 169w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/01144349-hideki-matsui-fire-shinjuku-giant-godzilla.jpg 732w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 542px) 100vw, 542px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>No, not <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2009\/12\/godzilla\/>that Godzilla<\/a>, the Godzilla also known as Hideki Matsui. Kirin used Matsui (or a giant balloon made to look like him actually) to promote their canned coffee called &#8220;Fire&#8221; with this &#8220;Big Matsui&#8221; outside of the Shinjuku Train Station exit a few years ago. Matsui was all the rage at the time given his MVP in the World Series the prior fall with the Yankees. I wonder if his image is still plastered all over the place in Japan now that his career is winding down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, not that Godzilla, the Godzilla also known as Hideki Matsui. Kirin used Matsui (or a giant balloon made to look like him actually) to promote their canned coffee called &#8220;Fire&#8221; with this &#8220;Big Matsui&#8221; outside of the Shinjuku Train Station exit a few years ago. Matsui was all the rage at the time given [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[82,214],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10235"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10237,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10235\/revisions\/10237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}