{"id":29,"date":"2007-07-29T07:50:34","date_gmt":"2007-07-29T13:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/2007\/07\/29\/tokyo-edition\/"},"modified":"2007-07-31T22:10:02","modified_gmt":"2007-08-01T04:10:02","slug":"tokyo-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/29\/tokyo-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of ours is moving to Tokyo so I&#8217;ve compiled a list of facts about Tokyo.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The word Toyko means &#8220;Eastern capital&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>35 million people live in the greater Tokyo area making it the largest metropolitan area in the world. Dallas-Fort Worth has 4.6 million making it the 53rd largest<\/li>\n<li>Symbols: Flower &#8211; Cherry Blossom; Tree &#8211; Ginko biloba; Bird &#8211; Black-headed Gull<\/li>\n<li>Governor of Tokyo is Shintaro Ishihara who said in a 2001 interview, &#8220;old women who live after they have lost their reproductive function are useless and are committing a sin.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Average temperature in August 27C (80.6F) in January 4C (39.2F)<\/li>\n<li>1 Dollar = 118.8 yen<\/li>\n<li>Nikkei stock exchange close at 17283.81 on Friday<\/li>\n<li>One bedroom apartment in suburb 80000 yen ($673)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of ours is moving to Tokyo so I&#8217;ve compiled a list of facts about Tokyo. The word Toyko means &#8220;Eastern capital&#8221; 35 million people live in the greater Tokyo area making it the largest metropolitan area in the world. Dallas-Fort Worth has 4.6 million making it the 53rd largest Symbols: Flower &#8211; Cherry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"url":"","client":"","location":"","start_date":"","end_date":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}