{"id":1057,"date":"2008-10-10T07:03:24","date_gmt":"2008-10-10T14:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=1057"},"modified":"2008-10-09T19:13:28","modified_gmt":"2008-10-10T02:13:28","slug":"kanji-clinic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2008\/10\/kanji-clinic\/","title":{"rendered":"Kanji Clinic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/logoobject.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"kanji clinic\" width=\"249\" height=\"56\" align=right>Somehow, a few months back, I stumbled upon <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kanjiclinic.com\/preart.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Kanji Clinic<\/a>, a website featuring the writings of Mary Sisk Noguchi. She writes a piece for <em>The Japan Times<\/em> six times a year. All of her past essays for the paper are on her site. I started at #1 and am reading several a week. I&#8217;ll be sad when I catch up and then have to wait two months for the next installment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m up to #39 which I read yesterday. It included the following which I will share with you so you can get a taste:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Back in 1930, Shojiro Ishibashi (\u77f3\u6a4b, Stone-Bridge) dubbed his new tire company \u201cBridgestone,\u201d now also internationally known for its bicycles. Just think, if plugging English keywords into the names of Japanese companies had become a trend, millions of drivers the world over might be cruising around not in \u201cToyotas,\u201d and \u201cMitsubishis,\u201d but in \u201cRichfields\u201d (\u8c4a\u7530, Toyota), and \u201cTriple Diamonds\u201d(\u4e09\u83f1, Mitsubishi).&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Whether you are learning Kanji or just interested in them, there is much of interest in her fun little columns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somehow, a few months back, I stumbled upon Kanji Clinic, a website featuring the writings of Mary Sisk Noguchi. She writes a piece for The Japan Times six times a year. All of her past essays for the paper are on her site. I started at #1 and am reading several a week. I&#8217;ll be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[89,27,26],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057"}],"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=1057"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1060,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057\/revisions\/1060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}