{"id":166,"date":"2011-08-17T06:49:57","date_gmt":"2011-08-17T13:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/maapps\/?p=166"},"modified":"2011-08-19T08:38:53","modified_gmt":"2011-08-19T15:38:53","slug":"a-visit-to-the-diet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/maapps\/2011\/a-visit-to-the-diet\/","title":{"rendered":"A Visit to the Diet"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-166 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/maapps\/2011\/a-visit-to-the-diet\/img_4685\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/maapps\/files\/2011\/08\/IMG_4685-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/maapps\/2011\/a-visit-to-the-diet\/img_4715\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/maapps\/files\/2011\/08\/IMG_4715-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/maapps\/2011\/a-visit-to-the-diet\/img_4710\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/maapps\/files\/2011\/08\/IMG_4710-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><!-- p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } -->Yesterday the entire UBC contingent and part of the Hitotsubashi group were fortunate enough to visit the Japanese Diet and meet with a DPJ member of the Lower House, Makoto Yamazaki. Mr. Yamazaki is a member of the Committee on Environment, and spoke to us on the current state of Japan&#8217;s environmental commitments and possible alternatives to nuclear power. Afterward, we were taken on a tour of the Diet building. Mr. Yamazaki came out to meet us once again as we left, and gave each of us a small gift. It was an interesting experience and we&#8217;re all grateful to Mr. Yamazaki for taking the time to meet with us over the Japanese holiday season of Obon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday the entire UBC contingent and part of the Hitotsubashi group were fortunate enough to visit the Japanese Diet and meet with a DPJ member of the Lower House, Makoto Yamazaki. Mr. Yamazaki is a member of the Committee on Environment, and spoke to us on the current state of Japan&#8217;s environmental commitments and possible [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8012,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[322977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-reflections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/maapps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/maapps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/maapps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/maapps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8012"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/maapps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/maapps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":231,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/maapps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions\/231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/maapps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/maapps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/maapps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}