{"id":11913,"date":"2013-10-15T20:49:44","date_gmt":"2013-10-16T06:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=11913"},"modified":"2013-10-16T19:48:57","modified_gmt":"2013-10-17T05:48:57","slug":"good-news-japan-times-community-pages-expanding-from-two-page-tuesdays-to-four-days-a-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=11913","title":{"rendered":"Good news:  Japan Times Community Pages expanding from two-page Tuesdays to four days a week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>eBooks, Books, and more from ARUDOU Debito (click on icon):<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/handbook.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11452\" title=\"Guidebookcover.jpg\" alt=\"Guidebookcover.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Guidebookcover.jpg\" width=\"75\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/japaneseonly.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11335\" alt=\"japaneseonlyebookcovertext\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/japaneseonlyebookcovertext-150x150.jpg\" width=\"75\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/handbook.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1298\" title=\"Handbook2ndEdcover.jpg\" alt=\"Handbook for Newcomers, Migrants, and Immigrants to Japan\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Handbook2ndEdcover.jpg\" width=\"75\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/inappropriate.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8577\" title=\"inappropriatecoverthumb150x226\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/inappropriatecoverthumb150x226.jpg\" width=\"75\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/japaneseonly.html#japanese\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1700\" title=\"jobookcover\" alt=\"\u300c\u30b8\u30e3\u30d1\u30cb\u30fc\u30ba\u30fb\u30aa\u30f3\u30ea\u30fc\u3000\u5c0f\u6a3d\u5165\u6d74\u62d2\u5426\u554f\u984c\u3068\u4eba\u7a2e\u5dee\u5225\u300d\uff08\u660e\u77f3\u66f8\u5e97\uff09\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/jobookcover-150x150.jpg\" width=\"75\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cinemabstruso.de\/strawberries\/main.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2735\" title=\"sourstrawberriesavatar\" alt=\"sourstrawberriesavatar\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/sourstrawberriesavatar.jpg\" width=\"75\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?cat=32\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4921\" title=\"debitopodcastthumb\" alt=\"debitopodcastthumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/debitopodcastthumb.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=10137\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-10142\" title=\"Fodors\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Fodors.jpg\" width=\"75\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nUPDATES ON TWITTER: arudoudebito<br \/>\nDEBITO.ORG PODCASTS on iTunes, subscribe free<br \/>\n&#8220;LIKE&#8221; US on Facebook at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/debitoorg\">http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/debitoorg<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/handbookimmigrants\">http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/handbookimmigrants<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/JapaneseOnlyTheBook\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/JapaneseOnlyTheBook<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BookInAppropriate\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BookInAppropriate<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hi Blog. \u00a0Good news. \u00a0With an imminent tie-up between The Japan Times and The New York Times, the Community Pages (which I have written for since 2002) will expand from its present two pages on Tuesday to four days a week. \u00a0The JT explains in more detail below. \u00a0Proud to be part of this writing crew. \u00a0We are the only English-language newspaper that is covering issues in this degree of depth in ways that matter to the English-reading NJ communities, and now we&#8217;re getting even more space. \u00a0Bravo. \u00a0Thank you to everyone for reading and encouraging this to happen. \u00a0&#8212; <strong><em>Arudou Debito, JUST BE CAUSE Columnist, The Japan Times<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/communityauthorsOct2013.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11914\" alt=\"communityauthorsOct2013\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/communityauthorsOct2013.jpg\" width=\"588\" height=\"624\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/communityauthorsOct2013.jpg 588w, https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/communityauthorsOct2013-282x300.jpg 282w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 588px) 100vw, 588px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"justbecauseicon.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/author\/int-debito_arudou\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1428\" alt=\"justbecauseicon.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/justbecauseicon.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<header>\n<hgroup>\n<h3><a title=\"See all stories from Voices\" href=\"http:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/community\/voices\/\" rel=\"tag\">VOICES<\/a><\/h3>\n<h1>Growing Community: the JT\u2019s most talked-about section is about to get larger<\/h1>\n<\/hgroup>\n<\/header>\n<div>\n<aside role=\"contentinfo\">\n<ul>\n<li><time datetime=\"2013-10-07T23:00:26+09:00\">OCT 7, 2013<\/time><a id=\"trigger\" href=\"http:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/community\/2013\/10\/07\/voices\/growing-community-the-jts-most-talked-about-section-is-about-to-get-larger\/#article_history\">\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/community\/2013\/10\/07\/voices\/growing-community-the-jts-most-talked-about-section-is-about-to-get-larger\/\">http:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/community\/2013\/10\/07\/voices\/growing-community-the-jts-most-talked-about-section-is-about-to-get-larger\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong><em>From Thursday, Oct. 17, the Community pages will be expanding to four days a week from the present double-page spread on Tuesday and single Saturday page in the print edition. Here\u2019s a taste of what to expect from mid-October:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Monday<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Recognizing that a huge number of our readers work in the education sector, Monday\u2019s main feature, Learning Curve, will focus on aspects of the teaching profession in Japan, from\u00a0eikaiwa\u00a0to JET and higher education.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Louise George Kittaka will continue to answer readers\u2019 questions for Lifelines, with lawyers from the Tokyo Public Law Office\u2019s Foreigners and International Service Section addressing legal issues on the second Monday of the month.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Learning-related listings and letters will also run Mondays.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Tuesday<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Writers including David McNeill, Jon Mitchell and Simon Scott will continue to tackle the big issues for The Foreign Element.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Opinion pieces that in the past would have been published here will shift to Thursday\u2019s page.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Views From The Street will be staying put, tapping the views of people around the country about everything under the rising sun.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Free listings related to causes and campaigns will feature on Tuesdays, as will feedback about the previous week\u2019s columns.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Thursday<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Debito Arudou\u2019s Just Be Cause will appear on the first Thursday of the month, with Hifumi Okunuki\u2019s Labor Pains on week two.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Oct. 17 will see the debut of Law Of The Land, a new column by legal expert Colin P.A. Jones.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Fourth (and fifth) Thursdays will offer an open space for opinion, to be called Foreign Agenda.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Readers will still have a forum to vent in Hotline to Nagata-cho.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Listings related to shared pursuits \u2014 from discussion groups to sports clubs \u2014 will run on Thursdays.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Saturday<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Japan Times stalwarts Amy Chavez (Japan Lite) and Thomas Dillon (When East Marries West) will alternate week by week, offering their wry observations about life in Japan from the wilds of the Seto Inland Sea and Tokyo, respectively.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Saturday will continue to be the place to find out more about the diverse range of individuals that make up the foreign community of Japan, with personality profiles, reports on events and organizations, and the occasional embassy profile in Our Man\/Woman In Tokyo.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Mixed Matches will focus on multicultural relationships, while Saturday\u2019s listings will cover social and religious events.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good news.  With an imminent tie-up between The Japan Times and The New York Times, the Community Pages (which I have written for since 2002) will expand from its present two pages on Tuesday to four days a week.  The JT explains in more detail below.  <\/p>\n<p>Proud to be part of this writing crew.  We are the only English-language newspaper that is covering issues in this degree of depth in ways that matter to the English-reading NJ communities, and now we&#8217;re getting even more space.  Bravo.  Thank you to everyone for reading and encouraging this to happen.  &#8212; Arudou Debito, JUST BE CAUSE Columnist, The Japan Times<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,35,12,4,14,16,13,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-good-news","category-immigration-assimilation","category-japanese-government","category-japanese-politics","category-labor-issues","category-media","category-practical-advice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11913","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=11913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}