{"id":1421,"date":"2022-06-08T13:42:45","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T13:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/?p=1421"},"modified":"2022-06-08T13:42:45","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T13:42:45","slug":"customers-from-the-usa-visit-our-tokyo-shop-june-1-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/2022\/06\/08\/customers-from-the-usa-visit-our-tokyo-shop-june-1-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Customers from the USA visit our Tokyo shop   June 1, 2022."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/77232D61-7599-4DE9-8280-2A5FF8906329.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1420 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/77232D61-7599-4DE9-8280-2A5FF8906329-300x225.jpeg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/77232D61-7599-4DE9-8280-2A5FF8906329-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/77232D61-7599-4DE9-8280-2A5FF8906329-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/77232D61-7599-4DE9-8280-2A5FF8906329.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We received visits from Fred Weissberg-san and James Lawson-san to our shop in\u00a0Tokyo, who are also key figures in the American Branch of the NBTHK. The COVID restrictions coming into Japan are gradually being eased. During the\u00a0last two and a\u00a0half years, sword collectors and enthusiasts\u00a0were not able to visit Japan and had to wait. With the eased restrictions, I am expecting an increase in international visitors coming to my shop from all over the world.\u00a0 During their visit, we were able to tell various stories at the lunch we had together. Surprisingly, it was said that even in the United States, sword enthusiasts are finding it difficult\u00a0to recruit\u00a0younger people into the NBTHK with an eye on the future to\u00a0pass on their knowledge. This problem is common to both Japan and the United States. There is no quick solution to solving this problem, but just a matter of making steady efforts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We received visits from Fred Weissberg-san and James Lawson-san to our shop in\u00a0Tokyo, who are also key figures in the American Branch of the NBTHK. The COVID restrictions coming into Japan are gradually being eased. During the\u00a0last two and a\u00a0half years, sword collectors and enthusiasts\u00a0were not able to visit Japan and had to wait. With &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/2022\/06\/08\/customers-from-the-usa-visit-our-tokyo-shop-june-1-2022\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Customers from the USA visit our Tokyo shop   June 1, 2022.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1422,"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421\/revisions\/1422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}