{"id":1256,"date":"2011-03-24T15:05:43","date_gmt":"2011-03-24T19:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/?p=1256"},"modified":"2011-03-24T15:05:43","modified_gmt":"2011-03-24T19:05:43","slug":"more-on-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/24\/more-on-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"More on Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;m not the only one still following the situation in Japan closely, I thought I&#8217;d share some more links I&#8217;ve found useful for getting and understanding the latest news.<\/p>\n<p><center><img src=\"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blogpics\/mtfuji.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I still highly recommend the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/series\/134454848\/earthquake-off-japan-coast-unleashes-tsunami\">NPR articles on Japan<\/a>.  The Lede blog has stopped focusing on Japan, but the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/\">New York Times<\/a> front page continues to run stories on the most urgent matters each day.<\/p>\n<p>For the most up-to-date news, I&#8217;ve been checking <a href=\"http:\/\/english.kyodonews.jp\/\">Kyodo News<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www3.nhk.or.jp\/daily\/english\/society.html\">NHK World<\/a>, both Japanese news sources with English articles.  They note any new developments well before most of the North American sources.<\/p>\n<p>And for straight-forward info on exactly what is happening, without any emotional commentary, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpro.who.int\/sites\/eha\/disasters\/2011\/jpn_earthquake\/list.htm\">World Health Organization website<\/a> has daily reports covering both the aftereffects of the earthquake and nuclear concerns.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also found two forums very useful for hearing reports from the ground&#8211;residents and visitors currently in Japan, as well as those in contact with friends and relatives there: the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tripadvisor.com\/ShowForum-g294232-i525-Japan.html\">TripAdvisor Japan Forums<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.japan-guide.com\/forum\/quedisplay.html?aTYPE=1\">Japan-Guide.com Travel forum<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, if you want to contribute in a kids lit sort of way, there&#8217;s another auction site on the go with prizes offered by many awesome authors: <a href=\"http:\/\/kidlit4japan.wordpress.com\/\">Children&#8217;s Authors &#038; Illustrators for Japan<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;m not the only one still following the situation in Japan closely, I thought I&#8217;d share some more links I&#8217;ve found useful for getting and understanding the latest news. I still highly recommend the NPR articles on &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/24\/more-on-japan\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1256"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1259,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256\/revisions\/1259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}