{"id":59347,"date":"2023-10-22T17:00:11","date_gmt":"2023-10-22T08:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/22\/japan-with-a-twist-the-provincial-town-that-hosts-people-from-49-countries"},"modified":"2023-10-22T17:00:11","modified_gmt":"2023-10-22T08:00:11","slug":"japan-with-a-twist-the-provincial-town-that-hosts-people-from-49-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=59347","title":{"rendered":"Japan, with a twist: the provincial town that hosts people from 49 countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u014cizumi has welcomed foreign workers and boasts everything from Brazilian supermarkets to Turkish kebab shops<\/p>\n<p>An unassuming industrial town in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\" title=\"\">Japan<\/a>, far from the busy tourist hubs of Tokyo and Kyoto, is in the middle of an unprecedented social transformation. \u014cizumi, rather than the country\u2019s capital, is at the forefront of Japan\u2019s foreigner-friendly future.<\/p>\n<p>The northern Kant\u014d plain is an unlikely setting for the country\u2019s experiment in multiculturalism, but this is provincial Japan with a twist. Signs at the local railway station \u2013 Nishi-Koizumi \u2013 are written in six languages. At the ticket office, a member of staff deals patiently with a customer struggling to communicate in Japanese.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/22\/japan-with-a-twist-the-provincial-town-that-hosts-people-from-49-countries\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u014cizumi has welcomed foreign workers and boasts everything from Brazilian supermarkets to Turkish kebab shopsAn unassuming industrial town in Japan, far from the busy tourist hubs of Tokyo and Kyoto, is in the middle of an unprecedented social transform&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4017,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,88,706,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-population","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4017"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59348,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59347\/revisions\/59348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}