{"id":4403,"date":"2002-01-07T11:36:00","date_gmt":"2002-01-07T15:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2002\/01\/07\/new-york-times-mention-of-manga-causes-controversy\/"},"modified":"2002-01-07T11:36:00","modified_gmt":"2002-01-07T15:36:00","slug":"new-york-times-mention-of-manga-causes-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/new-york-times-mention-of-manga-causes-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Times Mention of Manga Causes Controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent article focused on Hayao Miyazaki, written by James Brooke and published by the New York Times newspaper, appeared the statement, &#8220;Comic books account for 60% of printed publications in Japan, a reflection of low literacy rates due to the difficulty of learning Japanese characters.&#8221; The <a href=\"http:\/\/webcenter.newssearch.netscape.com\/aolns_display.adp?key=200201032122000185482_aolns.src\" target=\"_blank\">Associated Press<\/a> newswire immediately responded to this seeming attack on Japanese culture by pointing out that according to US State Department information, Japan has a 99% literacy rate, compared to America&#8217;s 97%. When contacted for clarification, Brooke explained, &#8220;What we are talking about here and a lot of older Japanese have told me this, reading and writing kanji skills are deteriorating [in contemporary Japan]. And this is what I meant by low literacy&#8230; In other words, a lot of Japanese people read comic books because they don&#8217;t want to sit on the subway with a long full text kanji book.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Article courtesy of <a href=\"mailto:sgreen@skuldo.com\">Scott Green<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent article focused on Hayao Miyazaki, written by James Brooke and published by the New York Times newspaper, appeared the statement, &#8220;Comic books account for 60% of printed publications in Japan, a reflection of low literacy rates due to the difficulty of learning Japanese characters.&#8221; The Associated Press newswire immediately responded to this [&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-4403","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\/4403","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=4403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}