{"id":2516,"date":"2011-04-15T21:54:26","date_gmt":"2011-04-15T21:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jlgc.wordpress.com\/?p=2516"},"modified":"2011-04-15T21:54:26","modified_gmt":"2011-04-15T21:54:26","slug":"cool-japan-using-pop-culture-as-soft-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/about-jlgc\/cool-japan-using-pop-culture-as-soft-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Cool Japan: using pop culture as soft power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Roland Kelts, professor at Tokyo University and columnist for the <em>Daily Yomiuri <\/em>(and former JET), spoke to Japanese officials at JLGC this week about Japan&#8217;s use of pop culture to promote the country and its interests around the world.\u00a0 Roland has also written recently\u00a0on Tokyo&#8217;s city branding for the book <em>City Branding &#8211; Theory and Cases<\/em> (Palgrave) alongside JLGC&#8217;s Andrew Stevens.\u00a0 JLGC holds a regular Speaker Series, where outside experts address staff from the centre and other Japanese public and academic bodies in London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roland Kelts, professor at Tokyo University and columnist for the Daily Yomiuri (and former JET), spoke to Japanese officials at JLGC this week about Japan&#8217;s use of pop culture to promote the country and its interests around the world.\u00a0 Roland has also written recently\u00a0on Tokyo&#8217;s city branding for the book City Branding &#8211; Theory and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-jlgc"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}