{"id":8953,"date":"2012-01-28T08:15:49","date_gmt":"2012-01-28T15:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=8953"},"modified":"2012-01-26T08:28:39","modified_gmt":"2012-01-26T15:28:39","slug":"%e5%b9%bc%e7%a8%9a%e5%9c%92%e5%85%a5%e5%9c%92%e5%bc%8f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2012\/01\/%e5%b9%bc%e7%a8%9a%e5%9c%92%e5%85%a5%e5%9c%92%e5%bc%8f\/","title":{"rendered":"\u5e7c\u7a1a\u5712\u5165\u5712\u5f0f"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/08112903yanaka-kindergarden-nyuenshiki.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/08112903yanaka-kindergarden-nyuenshiki-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\u5e7c\u7a1a\u5712\u5165\u5712\u5f0f kindergarten nyuenshiki\" title=\"yanaka kindergarden kindergarten nyuenshiki\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8954\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/08112903yanaka-kindergarden-nyuenshiki-800x450.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/08112903yanaka-kindergarden-nyuenshiki-250x140.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/08112903yanaka-kindergarden-nyuenshiki.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you can read Japanese, you already know what this photo is about. If you can&#8217;t, try and guess. A funeral? A wedding? But why all the kids? I&#8217;ll give you a hint, I took this photo in April. Still not getting it?<\/p>\n<p>April is when school starts in Japan. This is the first day of school at a Japanese kindergarten. And the first day of school for these four- and five-year olds is a huge deal. Just getting accepted to some Japanese kindergartens is a big deal. One of my Japanese friends paid tens of thousands of yen for a kindergarten prep-school for her three-year old daughter so that she could get into a good kindergarten. Crazy right? This is not a rare occurrence. If you see a Japanese mom with a three- or four-year old, both dressed to the T, in a train station in Japan the odds are very good that they are on their way to, or from, one of these kindergarten prep schools. <\/p>\n<p>\u5e7c\u7a1a\u5712\u5165\u5712\u5f0f = yochiennyuenshiki = Kindergarten Entrance Ceremony<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you can read Japanese, you already know what this photo is about. If you can&#8217;t, try and guess. A funeral? A wedding? But why all the kids? I&#8217;ll give you a hint, I took this photo in April. Still not getting it? April is when school starts in Japan. This is the first day [&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":[144,182,272],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8953"}],"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=8953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8955,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8953\/revisions\/8955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}