{"id":3219,"date":"2015-04-24T12:29:19","date_gmt":"2015-04-24T03:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/?p=3219"},"modified":"2015-04-24T12:29:19","modified_gmt":"2015-04-24T03:29:19","slug":"launching-ceremony-for-new-fast-car-ferry-akane-by-tetsumi-hanaoka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/posts-by-kodo-members\/20150424_3219.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Launching Ceremony for New Fast Car Ferry &#8216;Akane'&#8221; by Tetsumi Hanaoka"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='wp_social_bookmarking_light'>        <div class=\"wsbl_facebook_like\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/posts-by-kodo-members\/20150424_3219.html\" layout=\"button_count\" action=\"recommend\" width=\"100\" share=\"false\" show_faces=\"false\" ><\/fb:like><\/div>        <div class=\"wsbl_twitter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/posts-by-kodo-members\/20150424_3219.html\" data-text=\"&#8220;Launching Ceremony for New Fast Car Ferry &#8216;Akane'&#8221; by Tetsumi Hanaoka\" data-lang=\"en\">Tweet<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n<br class='wp_social_bookmarking_light_clear' \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Apr. 21, 2015<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Launching Ceremony for New Fast Car Ferry &#8216;Akane&#8217;<\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSC00622.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSC00622-340x255.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Tetsumi Hanaoka\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSC00632.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSC00632-340x255.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Tetsumi Hanaoka\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n<p>The new fast car ferry, &#8220;Akane,&#8221; has just been launched\u00a0between Naoetsu and Ogi on Sado Island. Kodo&#8217;s Motofumi Yamaguchi, Tomohiro Mitome, Mariko Omi, and Rai Tateishi performed at its launching ceremony. I went along to help out behind the scenes.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSC00618-680x510.jpg\" alt=\"DSC00618\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSC00640-e1429603185502-340x453.jpg\" alt=\"DSC00640\" width=\"320\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSC00611-e1429603200801-340x453.jpg\" alt=\"DSC00611\" width=\"320\" \/><\/h3>\n<p>A large crowd gathered to see Kodo perform in the ferry terminal building, and outside there was a range of stalls and demon drumming performances. Misato and Misaki, the Community Development Course trainees, were helping the Ogi locals serve up delicious soup.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSC00625-340x255.jpg\" alt=\"DSC00625\" width=\"320\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSC00624-340x255.jpg\" alt=\"DSC00624\" width=\"320\" \/><\/h3>\n<p>The &#8220;Akane&#8221; is a fast car ferry service that has shaved one hour from the usual travel time between Naoetsu and Ogi. It also has increased the number of services on this route, so it has made access to Sado both faster and easier. I hope you&#8217;ll\u00a0use this service to come to Sado Island!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/member\/tetsumihanaoka_en.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-328\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/tetsumihanaoka_s.jpg\" alt=\"tetsumihanaoka_s\" width=\"90\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apr. 21, 2015 Launching Ceremony for New Fast Car Ferry &#8216;Akane&#8217; The new fast car ferry, &#8220;Akane,&#8221; has just been launched\u00a0between Naoetsu and Ogi on Sado Island. Kodo&#8217;s Motofumi Yamaguchi, Tomohiro Mitome, Mariko Omi, and Rai Tateishi performed at its launching ceremony. I went along to help out behind the scenes. A large crowd gathered to see Kodo perform in the ferry terminal building, and outside there was a range of stalls and demon drumming performances. Misato and Misaki, the Community Development Course trainees, were helping the Ogi locals serve up delicious soup. The &#8220;Akane&#8221; is a fast car ferry service that has shaved one hour from the usual travel &#8230; <a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/posts-by-kodo-members\/20150424_3219.html\">\u25b6\u7d9a\u304d\u3092\u8aad\u3080<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[32,36],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3219"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3219"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3232,"href":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3219\/revisions\/3232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}