{"id":3865,"date":"2010-02-10T18:32:40","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T16:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=3865"},"modified":"2010-02-10T18:33:34","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T16:33:34","slug":"toyota-japanese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/toyota-japanese\/","title":{"rendered":"Toyota bows and the Japanese art of apology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/akio_toyoda.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3866\" title=\"Toyota bows and the Japanese art of apology\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/akio_toyoda-280x156.jpg\" alt=\"Toyota bows and the Japanese art of apology\" width=\"280\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/akio_toyoda-280x156.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/akio_toyoda.jpg 525w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/a>A bow is an important yet ubiquitous gesture in Japan and getting it right is essential, says Jeff Kingston of Temple University&#8217;s Tokyo campus.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As US President Barack Obama discovered when he bowed and tried to shake hands simultaneously with Emperor Akihito, it is not easy, especially if you are so much taller.<\/p>\n<p>The US media, or at least the anti-Obama wing, launched a feeding frenzy of criticism about Obama blowing the bowing. Was he kowtowing? Was he breaching protocol?<\/p>\n<p>Oddly enough, in Japan, nobody took umbrage &#8211; or notice &#8211; and the Japanese media reported the story as one of those inscrutable aspects of America, a nation that looms large in Japan even if it is a baffling place where one man&#8217;s gaffe is another&#8217;s show of courtesy.<\/p>\n<p>Scroll forward to the recent display of bowing by Toyota president Akio Toyoda.<\/p>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #f00;\">Error, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 15)<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toyota bows and the Japanese art of apology<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96,80,68,63,118,167],"tags":[4925,4920,4921,288,4923,4922,552],"class_list":["post-3865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-breaking-news","category-business","category-daily","category-hot","category-technology","tag-emperor-akihito","tag-jeff-kingston","tag-temple-university","tag-toyota","tag-toyota-president","tag-toyota-president-akio-toyoda","tag-us-president-barack-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}