{"id":526,"date":"2005-10-22T18:30:14","date_gmt":"2005-10-22T09:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jawingon.jet-okinawa.com\/?p=526"},"modified":"2005-10-22T18:31:05","modified_gmt":"2005-10-22T09:31:05","slug":"forget-247-wheres-7-eleven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jawingon.jet-okinawa.com\/?p=526","title":{"rendered":"Forget 24\/7, Where&#8217;s 7-Eleven"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although the Ryukyu Islands were returned to Japan in 1972, there are still some basics that provide a contrast in the two main islands.  When I was in the Fussa area outside Tokyo in 1981, I saw my first Japanese 7-Eleven.  Having lived only in the Okinawan Prefecture of Japan, I was very surprised to see the store.  Here it is almost 25 years later and below is a listing of the addresses of the current 7-Elevens we have on island (that I know of):<\/p>\n<p>You got it, a big fat zero!!!  There has been an influx of large mainland Japanese companies on island over the past 5 to 10 years, but not one 7-Eleven!  So it came quite the surprise to see this <a href= \"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2005\/10\/21\/news\/midcaps\/7eleven.reut\/index.htm\">article<\/a> in the news today.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although the Ryukyu Islands were returned to Japan in 1972, there are still some basics that provide a contrast in the two main islands. When I was in the Fussa area outside Tokyo in 1981, I saw my first Japanese 7-Eleven. Having lived only in the Okinawan Prefecture of Japan, I was very surprised to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general2005","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jawingon.jet-okinawa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jawingon.jet-okinawa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jawingon.jet-okinawa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jawingon.jet-okinawa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jawingon.jet-okinawa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jawingon.jet-okinawa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jawingon.jet-okinawa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jawingon.jet-okinawa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jawingon.jet-okinawa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}