{"id":12867,"date":"2008-06-09T12:37:26","date_gmt":"2008-06-09T16:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/?p=12867"},"modified":"2008-06-09T12:37:26","modified_gmt":"2008-06-09T16:37:26","slug":"us-navy-promotional-manga-available-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/us-navy-promotional-manga-available-online\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Navy Promotional Manga Available Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In order to to educate the Japanese public about planned docking of the USS George Washington nuclear-powered aircraft carrier at the Yokosuka Naval Base this August, the US Navy&#8217;s Japan Public Affairs Office comissioned the production and distribution of a 200 page manga titled &#8220;Manga CVN73 USS George Washington.&#8221; The manga introduces the the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier deployed to Japan through the eyes of a fictional Japanese-American sailor stationed on the boat. The US Navy has begun distributing free copies of the manga in Japan, and now hosts a free, downloadable PDF version of the manga in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cpf.navy.mil\/news_images\/manga\/CVN73-jp.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Japanese<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cpf.navy.mil\/news_images\/manga\/CVN73-eng.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">English<\/a> language.<\/p>\n<p>The source article from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/article.asp?section=104&amp;article=55417\" target=\"_blank\">Stars and Stripes<\/a> regarding the Japanese public response to the manga and the US Navy&#8217;s plans is worth reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In order to to educate the Japanese public about planned docking of the USS George Washington nuclear-powered aircraft carrier at the Yokosuka Naval Base this August, the US Navy&#8217;s Japan Public Affairs Office comissioned the production and distribution of a 200 page manga titled &#8220;Manga CVN73 USS George Washington.&#8221; The manga introduces the the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}