{"id":152,"date":"2007-03-06T22:21:49","date_gmt":"2007-03-06T13:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/?p=152"},"modified":"2015-10-25T04:44:53","modified_gmt":"2015-10-24T19:44:53","slug":"intl-event-in-okaya-nagano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/intl-event-in-okaya-nagano\/","title":{"rendered":"Int&#8217;l event in Okaya, Nagano"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/photoguide.jp\/pix\/thumbnails.php?album=515\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Okaya\" src=\"https:\/\/photoguide.jp\/pix\/albums\/nagano\/okaya\/oiea15th\/027-IMG_9173.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nakamura Naoko singing &#8220;Lake Biwa Rowing Song.&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The city of Okaya in Nagano-ken held a major int&#8217;l event on March 4:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oiea.jp\/jpn\/aboutus\/other\/15thanniversary.htm\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.oiea.jp\/jpn\/aboutus\/other\/15thanniversary.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I participated by having a small exhibition about <a href=\"https:\/\/photoguide.jp\/txt\/Lake_Biwa_Rowing_Song\">Biwako Shuko no Uta<\/a>. The twin sisters who sang the song in Shiga could not attend, so I was delighted that the Okaya people found someone to sing the song in English in Okaya.<\/p>\n<p>So the English version was sung in public for the first time outside Shiga, and for the first time in public by a Japanese person.<\/p>\n<p>The singer was a college student, and she was chosen by her choir director to sing the song. Even though her pronunciation was not perfect, she sang it quite well. She didn&#8217;t know much about the song&#8217;s background, so I explained about it before she sang. She had only 2 weeks to practice, and sang three verses (out of six).<\/p>\n<p>The event itself was very successful. Pictures here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/photoguide.jp\/pix\/thumbnails.php?album=515\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/photoguide.jp\/pix\/thumbnails.php?album=515<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The city of Okaya in Nagano-ken held a major int&#8217;l event on March 4: http:\/\/www.oiea.jp\/jpn\/aboutus\/other\/15thanniversary.htm I participated by having a small exhibition about Biwako Shuko no Uta. The twin sisters who sang the song in Shiga could not attend, so&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biwakosong","category-shigabrand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3638,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions\/3638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}