{"id":497,"date":"2010-05-31T15:56:15","date_gmt":"2010-05-31T21:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/?p=497"},"modified":"2010-05-31T15:56:15","modified_gmt":"2010-05-31T21:56:15","slug":"be-considerate-of-japan-residents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/?p=497","title":{"rendered":"Be considerate of Japan residents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since seeing some of my friends from Japan, I have been thinking more and more about a life as a budo student in Japan.\u00a0 But more as a resident of Japan who trains budo.\u00a0 I can imagine it is very difficult living in a way where everyone assumes your life revolves around training.<\/p>\n<p>For us visiting it is important to keep in mind that those whom expatriated are not there to babysit or translate for us.\u00a0 It is on their kind whim that they help us.\u00a0 They have jobs and lives in Japan to which they have to attend.\u00a0 What makes you think they have time to deal with a stranger whom is going on a 3 week holiday?<\/p>\n<p>I thought it was important for me to say, and also remind myself of when I go to Japan next, which if I start work should be very soon.\u00a0 Your life is on the line, practise well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since seeing some of my friends from Japan, I have been thinking more and more about a life as a budo student in Japan.\u00a0 But more as a resident of Japan who trains budo.\u00a0 I can imagine it is very difficult living in a way where everyone assumes your life revolves around training. For us [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-training-in-japan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":498,"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions\/498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}