{"id":128908,"date":"2020-01-14T15:27:52","date_gmt":"2020-01-14T06:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=128908&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2020-01-14T15:27:52","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T06:27:52","slug":"kumamoto-city-releases-multilingual-app-for-garbage-pickup","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/kumamoto-city-releases-multilingual-app-for-garbage-pickup\/","title":{"rendered":"Kumamoto City Releases Multilingual App for Garbage Pickup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kumamoto City released a new smartphone application to explain waste separation rules for non-Japanese speakers this month. The new service explains the seemingly complex rules of waste separation and collection in easy-to-understand Japanese, Chinese, and English. The nation&#8217;s first smartphone application of the kind is available from the city&#8217;s official website. <strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.city.kumamoto.jp\/hpkiji\/pub\/detail.aspx?c_id=5&#038;type=top&#038;id=26479\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Kumamoto City<\/a> 01\/09\/2020 <\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Kumamoto-City-garbage.jpg?resize=1400%2C985&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"985\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-128910\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Kumamoto-City-garbage.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Kumamoto-City-garbage.jpg?resize=300%2C211&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Kumamoto-City-garbage.jpg?resize=1024%2C720&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Kumamoto-City-garbage.jpg?resize=768%2C540&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/>Image by <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/users\/DeltaWorks-37465\/?utm_source=link-attribution&#038;utm_medium=referral&#038;utm_campaign=image&#038;utm_content=3467634\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Kohji Asakawa<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/?utm_source=link-attribution&#038;utm_medium=referral&#038;utm_campaign=image&#038;utm_content=3467634\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Pixabay<\/a> <\/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>Kumamoto City released a new smartphone application to explain waste separation rules for non-Japanese speakers this month. The new service explains the seemingly complex rules of waste separation and collection in easy-to-understand Japanese, Chinese, and English. The nation&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29354,"featured_media":128910,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-128908","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-kumamoto-city","news-category-environment","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/128908","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\/29354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128908"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}