{"id":1958,"date":"2026-09-02T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/?p=1958"},"modified":"2026-09-01T22:21:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T13:21:21","slug":"some-improvements-in-japan-over-the-last-few-decades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/?p=1958","title":{"rendered":"Some Improvements in Japan over the Last Few Decades"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What do these four arguably Japanese things have in common?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>a group shouting \u201c<em>ikki<\/em>! <em>Ikki<\/em>!\u201d in unison at an <em>izakaya<\/em> to prod someone to chug their drink<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>urinating against the side of a building<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>chucking noodles onto the sidewalk after drinking too much<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>swinging an imaginary golf club while waiting on a platform for a train.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What these things have in common, at least as I observe them, is that they are considerably rarer than they were some decades ago here in Japan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first three are related to improved drinking habits and manners, and perhaps a heightened realization that looking like a jerk is not cool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019m not sure why the imaginary golf clubs have become rare. Perhaps it is because it is rather difficult to maintain your imaginary golf swing form while holding a phone in one hand. Maybe someone closer to the problem could offer a suggestion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do these four arguably Japanese things have in common? What these things have in common, at least as I observe them, is that they are considerably rarer than they were some decades ago here in Japan. The first three are related to improved drinking habits and manners, and perhaps a heightened realization that looking &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/?p=1958\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Some Improvements in Japan over the Last Few Decades&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[296,8,292,295],"class_list":["post-1958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan-2","tag-drinking","tag-japan","tag-urination","tag-vomit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1959,"href":"http:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958\/revisions\/1959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}