{"id":67,"date":"2009-04-05T14:34:03","date_gmt":"2009-04-05T18:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/?p=67"},"modified":"2018-07-27T17:50:08","modified_gmt":"2018-07-27T17:50:08","slug":"japanese-companies-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/japanese-companies-in-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Companies In the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think most people take it for granted when it comes to the products they use.\u00a0 I&#8217;m willing to bet that everyone has at least one item made by a Japanese company.\u00a0 We&#8217;re going to play a little game today.\u00a0 Try to guess the company by the logo:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"float: left\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thegameplanllc.com\/images\/bandai_logo_190_-1_100.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/>Bandai (<strong>\u30d0\u30f3\u30c0\u30a4<\/strong>): They&#8217;re known for their toys and figurines.<\/p>\n<p>Panasonic (<span class=\"t_nihongo_kanji\"><strong>\u30d1\u30ca\u30bd\u30cb\u30c3\u30af<\/strong><\/span>): Mostly for tv sets and other electronic appliances.<\/p>\n<p>Honda (<span class=\"match\"><strong>\u30db\u30f3\u30c0<\/strong><\/span>): If you have never heard of this name, please get out of the cave.<\/p>\n<p>Toyota (<span class=\"t_nihongo_kanji\"><strong>\u30c8\u30e8\u30bf<\/strong><\/span>): &#8220;I love what you do for me, Toyota!&#8221;\u00a0 Does this ring a bell?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"float: left\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/gadgets\/Fuji-Logo72.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/>Fujifilm (<span class=\"t_nihongo_kanji\"><strong>\u5bcc\u58eb\u30d5\u30a4\u30eb\u30e0<\/strong><\/span>): Say cheese!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"float: left\" src=\"http:\/\/videogamesatemybaby.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/07\/nintendo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/>Nintendo (<span class=\"t_nihongo_kanji\"><strong>\u4efb\u5929\u5802<\/strong><\/span>): This is sooo 80s and 90s, but I think it deserves to be here because it changed the video game industry as we know it.<\/p>\n<p>Citizen (<span class=\"t_nihongo_kanji\"><strong>\u30b7\u30c1\u30ba\u30f3<\/strong><\/span>): In Japanese it&#8217;s pronounced as Shichizun and by the way, what time is it?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s time to say sayoonara (<strong>\u3055\u3088\u3046\u306a\u3089<\/strong>) or goodbye.\ufffd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think most people take it for granted when it comes to the products they use.\u00a0 I&#8217;m willing to bet that everyone has at least one item made by a Japanese company.\u00a0 We&#8217;re going to play a little game today.\u00a0 Try to guess the company by the logo: Bandai (\u30d0\u30f3\u30c0\u30a4): They&#8217;re known for their toys&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/japanese-companies-in-the-us\/\">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":[2740],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-culture","tag-japanese-companies"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","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=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6254,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions\/6254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}