{"id":3162,"date":"2011-09-15T10:06:51","date_gmt":"2011-09-15T10:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jlgc.wordpress.com\/?p=3162"},"modified":"2011-09-15T10:06:51","modified_gmt":"2011-09-15T10:06:51","slug":"shizuoka-a-mono-zukuri-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/about-jlgc\/shizuoka-a-mono-zukuri-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Shizuoka: a Monozukuri City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shizuoka City and JLGC are supporting the <a href=\"http:\/\/asiancreativeculture.com\/\">Asian Creative Culture<\/a> event, which takes place at the following London venues\/events:<\/p>\n<p>RED GALLERY 22 (Thu) &#8211; 24 (Sat) September 2011<br \/>\nTENT LONDON 22 (Thu) &#8211; 25 (Sun) September 2011<\/p>\n<p>Co-Sponsors: CCC (the center for creative communications), SCV (Shizuoka Content Valley)<br \/>\nCooperation: B-nest (Shizuoka City Industry-University Exchange Center), IdN magazine (Hong Kong), ICN gallery, Hexaproject London Limited<br \/>\nSupport: Embassy of Japan in the UK, The Japan Society, CLAIR London, JETRO London, Kirin Europe Ltd.<br \/>\nPlanning: NPO Hexaproject<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A city of history and highly skilled craftsmanship.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Shizuoka City is located in approximately the middle of the main island of Japan, Honshu, between Tokyo and Nagoya \u2013 a mega-region known as the most economically active in Japan. Known throughout Japan as a city of &#8220;mono-zukuri&#8221; (literally: &#8216;the making of things&#8217;), Shizuoka has a long history of craftsman thanks in part to the shogun Tokugawa bringing the best carpenters, lacquer-smiths and carvers with him when he retired to Shizuoka. For the past 400 years since then, the skills of their decedents have sharpened and Shizuoka is becoming a world-class &#8220;mono-zukuri city&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>In Japanese, the words <em>mono<\/em> (thing) and <em>zukuri<\/em> (process of making), when taken together literally mean the process of making or creating things, however a mere translation does not convey the accurate connotation of <em>monozukuri<\/em>. The concept is much more intense; <em>monozukuri<\/em> means having the spirit to produce excellence products and the ability to constantly improve a production system and process<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.city.shizuoka.jp\/\">www.city.shizuoka.jp<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shizuoka City and JLGC are supporting the Asian Creative Culture event, which takes place at the following London venues\/events: RED GALLERY 22 (Thu) &#8211; 24 (Sat) September 2011 TENT LONDON 22 (Thu) &#8211; 25 (Sun) September 2011 Co-Sponsors: CCC (the center for creative communications), SCV (Shizuoka Content Valley) Cooperation: B-nest (Shizuoka City Industry-University Exchange Center), [&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-3162","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\/3162","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=3162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}