{"id":10130,"date":"2012-04-25T05:51:36","date_gmt":"2012-04-24T20:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=10130"},"modified":"2012-04-25T07:25:37","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T22:25:37","slug":"jt-community-page-10th-anniversary-write-a-haiku-win-a-copy-of-debitos-handbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=10130","title":{"rendered":"JT Community Page 10th Anniversary: Write a Haiku, win a copy of Debito’s HANDBOOK"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hi Blog. As I wrote last week, next week heralds a celebration of the Tenth Anniversary of the Japan Times’ Tuesday Community Page<\/a>. As I’ve written about 100 articles and JBC columns for it so far, I’ll be doing double duty next week with two articles, one in commemoration, and one a regular JBC column (more on the topic shortly before publication).<\/p>\n

This week, however, in anticipation, the JT announced that it would be offering FIVE free copies<\/a> of Akira Higuchi and Arudou Debito’s bilingual HANDBOOK FOR NEWCOMERS, MIGRANTS, AND IMMIGRANTS (more on it here)<\/a>, which has been a solid and steady seller, what with all the information about getting the right visa, getting a steady job, getting settled for a permanent life in Japan, and dealing with problems and issues that may come up. Table of Contents and reviews here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That’s right, five free copies of HANDBOOK, and all you have to do is write a Haiku in English about Japan — “the good, the bad and the ugly”. Some examples (there are many more at the link) by Zeit Gist contributor Colin Jones this week include:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/text\/fl20120424lg.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Random card checking
\nFingerprints at the airport
\nYokoso Japan!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Non-Japanese folk<\/em><\/strong>
\n Have constitutional rights<\/em><\/strong>
\n Except when they don’t<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Barred from the hot springs<\/em><\/strong>
\n for invisible tattoo<\/em><\/strong>
\n It says “foreigner”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Now, those are my kinda Haiku. And no doubt we’ll have some anti-Debito ones too (taste the irony of being rewarded by the very person you’re dissing!). Go for it! \u00a0Submit via:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/life\/community-anniversary.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Happy Anniversary, Community Page! \u00a0Arudou Debito<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As I wrote last week, next week heralds a celebration of the Tenth Anniversary of the Japan Times’ Tuesday Community Page. As I’ve written about 100 articles and JBC columns for it so far, I’ll be doing double duty next week with two articles, one in commemoration, and one a regular JBC column (more on the topic shortly before publication).<\/p>\n

This week, however, in anticipation, the JT announced that it would be offering FIVE free copies of Akira Higuchi and Arudou Debito’s bilingual HANDBOOK FOR NEWCOMERS, MIGRANTS, AND IMMIGRANTS (more on it here), which has been a solid and steady seller, what with all the information about getting the right visa, getting a steady job, getting settled for a permanent life in Japan, and dealing with problems and issues that may come up.<\/p>\n

That’s right, five free copies of HANDBOOK, and all you have to do is write a Haiku in English about Japan — “the good, the bad and the ugly”. Some examples by Zeit Gist contributor Colin Jones this week include:<\/p>\n

Random card checking
\nFingerprints at the airport
\nYokoso Japan!<\/p>\n

Non-Japanese folk
\nHave constitutional rights
\nExcept when they don’t<\/p>\n

Barred from the hot springs
\nfor invisible tattoo
\nIt says “foreigner”<\/p>\n

Now, those are my kinda Haiku. And no doubt we’ll have some anti-Debito ones too (taste the irony of being rewarded by the very person you’re dissing!). Go for it! Submit via:
\nhttp:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/life\/community-anniversary.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,35,38,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-good-news","category-handbook-for-newcomers","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}