{"id":104433,"date":"2017-11-09T11:06:25","date_gmt":"2017-11-09T02:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=104433&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2017-11-09T11:11:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T02:11:00","slug":"series-on-immigration-in-kyushu-wins-award","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/series-on-immigration-in-kyushu-wins-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Series on Immigration in Kyushu Wins Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Waseda University announced the top three grand prize winners of the Ishibashi Tanzan Memorial Journalism Award. The Grass Roots Democracy category went to the Nishinippon Shimbun \u201cNew Era of Immigration\u201d series, which investigated the conditions of international workers in Fukuoka and Kyushu. Selected articles from the series were translated and featured on the Fukuoka Now website this year. The NHK special \u201cThe Death of a Civilian Police Officer\u201d won the Public Service section, while photojournalist Noriko Hayashi&#8217;s work \u201cThe Prayer of the Yazidis\u201d won the Cultural Contribution category. Follow <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/new-era-immigration-kyushu\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this link<\/a> to 29 of the stories from the \u201cNew Era of Immigration\u201d that were summarized and translated into English by Fukuoka Now.  <strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sankei.com\/entertainments\/news\/171030\/ent1710300020-n1.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sankei Shimbun<\/a>, 10\/30\/2017<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/resized-nns-imi-award.jpg?resize=1400%2C637\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"637\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-104556\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/resized-nns-imi-award.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/resized-nns-imi-award.jpg?resize=300%2C137&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/resized-nns-imi-award.jpg?resize=768%2C349&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/resized-nns-imi-award.jpg?resize=1024%2C466&amp;ssl=1 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Disclaimer<\/strong>: Fukuoka Now posts summaries of Kyushu area related news for the benefit of those who cannot read Japanese. Contents posted here are mostly summaries of publicly posted news stories from Japanese media organizations. Errors might occur during translation. Those errors are ours, and not the news source\u2019s. Photos and images are sourced separately and are for illustrative purposes only. Please use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/contact\/\">this form<\/a> to send feedback and questions. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waseda University announced the top three grand prize winners of the Ishibashi Tanzan Memorial Journalism Award. The Grass Roots Democracy category went to the Nishinippon Shimbun \u201cNew Era of Immigration\u201d series, which&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":104556,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-104433","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-fukuoka-prefecture","news-category-general","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/104433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104433"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}