{"id":3093,"date":"2011-09-12T00:26:48","date_gmt":"2011-09-12T00:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jlgc.wordpress.com\/?p=3093"},"modified":"2021-05-19T16:59:23","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T15:59:23","slug":"outside-looking-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/international-exchange\/outside-looking-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Outside looking in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Asahi Weekly<\/em> has recently carried a series of stories which focus on tourist destinations in Japan that are particularly popular among certain groups of foreign tourists.  The first looks at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asahi.com\/english\/TKY201108260325.html\">why Hiroshima<\/a> continues to draw American visitors, while Germans continue to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asahi.com\/english\/TKY201109020312.html\">flock to Tokushima<\/a> a century after WW1 through its POW links.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asahi.com\/english\/TKY201109030186.html\">secluded Koyasan<\/a> in Wakayama continues to attract legions of French visitors, while <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asahi.com\/english\/TKY201109050177.html\">unspoiled Takayama<\/a> finds favour among the Spanish.  The slopes of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asahi.com\/english\/TKY201109060326.html\">Hakuba in Nagano<\/a> give a snow break to Australians, while Taiwanese <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asahi.com\/english\/TKY201109070257.html\">flock to Tateyama<\/a> for pretty much the same experience.  Koreans now visualise themselves in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asahi.com\/english\/TKY201109080310.html\">hanryu hotspots of Akita and Tottori<\/a>, yet Chinese visitors are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asahi.com\/english\/TKY201109090301.html\">drawn to Hokkaido<\/a> for movie tie-in locations.  Finally the cradle of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asahi.com\/english\/TKY201109100220.html\">Japan-Mexico relations in Chiba<\/a> finds a receptive audience among newly-weds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Asahi Weekly has recently carried a series of stories which focus on tourist destinations in Japan that are particularly popular among certain groups of foreign tourists. The first looks at why Hiroshima continues to draw American visitors, while Germans continue to flock to Tokushima a century after WW1 through its POW links. The secluded [&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":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-exchange"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3093","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=3093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9572,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3093\/revisions\/9572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}