{"id":22601,"date":"2012-09-06T11:11:26","date_gmt":"2012-09-06T15:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=22601"},"modified":"2012-09-06T11:11:26","modified_gmt":"2012-09-06T15:11:26","slug":"ana-group-has-launched-%e2%80%9cis-japan-cool-cosplay%e2%80%9d-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=22601","title":{"rendered":"ANA Group has launched \u201cIS JAPAN COOL? COSPLAY\u201d website!"},"content":{"rendered":"

ANA Group, Japan’s largest Airline, has launched \u201cIS JAPAN COOL? COSPLAY\u201d as a part of the \u201cIS JAPAN COOL?\u201d campaign website which aims to attract more visitors to Japan from overseas by highlighting the beauty and wonder of the country. <\/p>\n

\u201cIS JAPAN COOL? COSPLAY\u201d website showcases 44 energetic cosplayers representing 20 countries for world’s largest international cosplay competition called \u201cThe World Cosplay Summit (WCS)\u201d held in August, with their profiles and comments from a foreigner’s point of view.<\/p>\n

Visitors to this site can vote to rank their favorite cosplayers just like WCS Juries.<\/p>\n

Through introducing the Japanese cutting-edge pop culture \u201cCosplay\u201d, ANA aims to attract foreigner’s interest in Japan and its culture.<\/p>\n

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Photos above: “IS JAPAN COOL? COSPLAY” Top 3 rankers (as of Sep. 6, 2012)
\n1. TAIWAN Char Zaku \/ Gundam (Mobile Suit Gundam)
\n2. JAPAN Ninja (Original)
\n3. ITALY Rei Ayanami \/ Asuka Langley (Neon GEnesis EVANGELION)<\/p>\n

About The World Cosplay Summit (WCS):
\nAn international level cosplay competition held annually in Nagoya, Japan created to promote international exchange through the Japanese youth culture of manga and anime. The competition brings together contestants from all over the globe to showcase their prize-winning costumes.
\n“Cosplay” is a Japanese word derived from the English words “costume” and “play” and it refers to wearing character costume and playing the part of various genres like manga, anime, games, etc.<\/p>\n

About \u201cIS JAPAN COOL?\u201d web site:
\nThe 1st series focused specifically on cool Japanese culture, with over 100,000 site visitors casting their votes as to whether the featured locations and trends were \u201ccool\u201d or \u201cnot so cool\u201d. The 2nd website predominantly features new attractions in Tokyo, where an exciting mixture of old and new Japanese culture thrives, and in Okinawa, a picturesque resort in southern Japan. We hope you enjoy your visit to the \u201cIs Japan Cool?\u201d website and look forward to your vote.<\/p>\n

For more: https:\/\/www.ana-cooljapan.com\/#\/cosplay<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ANA Group, Japan’s largest Airline, has launched \u201cIS JAPAN COOL? COSPLAY\u201d as a part of the \u201cIS JAPAN COOL?\u201d campaign website which aims to attract more visitors to Japan from overseas by highlighting the beauty and wonder of the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-up-to-date-news-on-everything-asian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22603,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22601\/revisions\/22603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}