{"id":24648,"date":"2018-12-07T12:25:30","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T12:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=24648"},"modified":"2018-12-07T12:25:30","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T12:25:30","slug":"japan-needs-immigrants-but-do-immigrants-need-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=24648","title":{"rendered":"Japan needs immigrants, but do immigrants need Japan?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Tokyo (CNN)<\/cite>One of the first concepts Linh Nguyen learned while studying Japanese was &#8220;uchi-soto.&#8221; <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">It refers to the practice of categorizing<strong> <\/strong>people into one of two groups &#8212; insiders or outsiders. Family, friends and close acquaintances are insiders, referred to as &#8220;uchi,&#8221; while &#8220;soto&#8221; is for those relegated to the periphery.  <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">For this Japan-obsessed student in Vietnam, it felt like a warning: she could be about to enter a deeply closed society that would always consider her an outsider. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tokyo (CNN)One of the first concepts Linh Nguyen learned while studying Japanese was &#8220;uchi-soto.&#8221; It refers to the practice of categorizing people into one of two groups &#8212; insiders or outsiders. Family, friends and close acquaintances are insiders, referred to as &#8220;uchi,&#8221; while &#8220;soto&#8221; is for those relegated to the periphery. For this Japan-obsessed student&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":24649,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}