{"id":1994,"date":"2009-04-11T18:20:16","date_gmt":"2009-04-12T01:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=1994"},"modified":"2009-04-11T18:20:16","modified_gmt":"2009-04-12T01:20:16","slug":"kochikame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2009\/04\/kochikame\/","title":{"rendered":"Kochikame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/p1000690.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1995\" title=\"kochikame manga japanese\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/p1000690-619x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"619\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/p1000690-619x800.jpg 619w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/p1000690-116x150.jpg 116w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/p1000690.jpg 813w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 619px) 100vw, 619px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2009\/03\/powells-books\/\">As previously mentioned<\/a> I picked up another copy of the Japanese manga <em>Kochikame<\/em> (\u3053\u3061\u3089\u845b\u98fe\u533a\u4e80\u6709\u516c\u5712\u524d\u6d3e\u51fa\u6240) on our recent trip to Portland. This one was just as fun to read, if not funner, than <a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2008\/05\/kochi-kame-\u3053\u3061\u4e80-or-\u3053\u3061\u304b\u3081\/\">the first one I reviewed before<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Either my reading and understanding is getting better or this second was simply easier to understand. I&#8217;m guessing it&#8217;s the former as I&#8217;ve been reading and studying Japanese a lot lately.<\/p>\n<p>Even if your Japanese isn&#8217;t great, <em>Kochikame<\/em> is a great way to improve it (while having a smile on your face) as there is <em>furigana<\/em> next to all of the kanji as you can see in the example below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/p1000691.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1996\" title=\"japanese manga kochi kame\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/p1000691-800x733.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"733\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/p1000691-800x733.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/p1000691-150x137.jpg 150w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/p1000691.jpg 1145w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to take my two books off my hands they are $5 each plus shipping. Each is almost 200 pages in length.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As previously mentioned I picked up another copy of the Japanese manga Kochikame (\u3053\u3061\u3089\u845b\u98fe\u533a\u4e80\u6709\u516c\u5712\u524d\u6d3e\u51fa\u6240) on our recent trip to Portland. This one was just as fun to read, if not funner, than the first one I reviewed before. Either my reading and understanding is getting better or this second was simply easier to understand. I&#8217;m [&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":[66,62,64],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994"}],"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=1994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1997,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994\/revisions\/1997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}