{"id":1258,"date":"2011-09-11T09:59:46","date_gmt":"2011-09-11T09:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/?p=1258"},"modified":"2011-09-11T10:56:02","modified_gmt":"2011-09-11T10:56:02","slug":"examples-of-innovation-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/2011\/09\/11\/examples-of-innovation-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Examples of innovation in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"

During my recent visit to Japan to attend a meeting at RIKEN and see \u00a0a few friends at University of Tokyo, I was quite impressed at the innovation I saw all around me in Japan. For example, a small bit of land in downtown Tokyo was converted into a very attractive natural space with flora that truly appeared wild.<\/p>\n

I saw an advertisement for a very innovative navigation system aimed at bicycle riders.<\/p>\n

Dr. Isoshima at RIKEN was wearing a ventilated shirt that looked remarkably comfortable, with two small fans sewn in place.<\/p>\n

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In Wako there is an organic farm. This dispenser allows the local residents to sell their pumpkins to passersby.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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An empty lot in the Shibuya neighborhood of Tokyo is lovingly maintained as a natural space.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A new system for navigation aimed at bicycle riders<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Here is a ventilated shirt that my friend Dr. Isoshima at RIKEN was wearing the other day. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

During my recent visit to Japan to attend a meeting at RIKEN and see \u00a0a few friends at University of Tokyo, I was quite impressed at the innovation I saw all around me in Japan. For example, a small bit of land in downtown Tokyo was converted into a very attractive natural space with flora … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9296425,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[184,58155906],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-today-in-japan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9296425"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}