{"id":1523,"date":"2011-07-18T09:00:12","date_gmt":"2011-07-18T09:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/?p=1523"},"modified":"2011-07-18T09:00:12","modified_gmt":"2011-07-18T09:00:12","slug":"japan-wins-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/japan-wins-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan Wins World Cup!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to the Japanese Women\u2019s Soccer Team for winning the World Cup! I think the most appropriate thing to say in this situation is <strong>\u512a\u52dd\u304a\u3081\u3067\u3068\u3046<\/strong> (y\u016bsh\u014d omedet\u014d), which means \u201cCongratulations on the victory!\u201d. The Japanese victory comes as a pleasant surprise. Previous to this game the Japanese Women\u2019s Team played 25 games against the U.S. Not until now have the Japanese Women\u2019s Team ever been able to defeat the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s more is that this is the first time that an Asian soccer team has ever won the World Cup. The Japanese victory has brought much needed joy to a devastated nation. A few months prior to this game, Japan was grappling with a nuclear crisis and the death and destruction caused by an earthquake and tsunami. The victory couldn\u2019t have come at a better time. Here\u2019s a clip of the highlights of the game that took place on July 17<sup>th<\/sup>:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eyZx7hm4lhg<\/p>\n<p>The host country for the 2011 FIFA Women\u2019s World Cup was in Germany. Tournaments were held from June 26<sup>th<\/sup> to July 17<sup>th<\/sup>. Since the world cup was held in Germany, naturally people assumed the German team would go far into the finals. No one imagined that the Japanese team would be one of the last teams to play the final game of the World Cup. In addition the Japanese Women\u2019s Soccer Team was able to accomplish what the Japanese Men\u2019s Soccer Team was unable to do: win a World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the focus and energy on sports in Japan is devoted towards men\u2019s soccer, men\u2019s baseball, etc. The victory by the Japanese Women\u2019s Team may soon encourage more money and promotion to go towards women\u2019s sports. Lastly, the Japanese victory has given Japan a reason to be happy. It\u2019s almost as if the Victory has given the nation permission to laugh and relax in a time when there is tension and uncertainty over the future of the country.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PtJMi_EeawA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to the Japanese Women\u2019s Soccer Team for winning the World Cup! I think the most appropriate thing to say in this situation is \u512a\u52dd\u304a\u3081\u3067\u3068\u3046 (y\u016bsh\u014d omedet\u014d), which means \u201cCongratulations on the victory!\u201d. The Japanese victory comes as a pleasant surprise. Previous to this game the Japanese Women\u2019s Team played 25 games against the U.S&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/japan-wins-world-cup\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[90068],"class_list":["post-1523","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-culture","tag-japans-world-cup"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}