{"id":1288,"date":"2011-12-02T08:10:42","date_gmt":"2011-12-02T14:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/?p=1288"},"modified":"2011-12-02T08:15:43","modified_gmt":"2011-12-02T14:15:43","slug":"lets-go-to-tohoku-btches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/2011\/12\/02\/lets-go-to-tohoku-btches\/","title":{"rendered":"Let’s go to Tohoku, btches!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Japan is trying hard to promote tourism in Tohoku.<\/p>\n

I mean, really really hard.<\/p>\n

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\nLast week, I saw the Aomori “Prefectural” character hanging out in Kawasaki station. (Yes, Japan made characters that represent prefectures. They’re called….crap I forget. “something kyara.”)<\/p>\n

Anyway, his name is “Ikube,” which means “Let’s go” in Aomori-ben (dialect from Aomori). I snapped a pic and then asked the young guy dressed up in what I can only assume was cultural clothing, and he said it was a PR thing to promote Aomori. He, the little blue blob thingie, was SO CUTE…in a bizarre way.
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Yes, I’ve been learning a lot about the food and sites in Tohoku…..there are posters everywhere. Even on the train. (Iku ze, tohoku! – Let’s go to Tohoku, guys!)
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It’s almost enough to make me want to go to Tohoku….! But not quite.
\nActually, I wouldn’t mind going to Aomori. It’s more north of the nuclear power plants. I want to go and try talking to people and hearing the Aomori-ben. What can I say? I’m a linguist so I’m into that stuff. ^^;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Japan is trying hard to promote tourism in Tohoku. I mean, really really hard. Last week, I saw the Aomori “Prefectural” character hanging out in Kawasaki station. (Yes, Japan made characters that represent prefectures. They’re called….crap I forget. “something kyara.”) Anyway, his name is “Ikube,” which means “Let’s go” in Aomori-ben (dialect from Aomori). I…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earth-quake-and-aftermath","category-10","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}