{"id":12476,"date":"2011-01-25T01:01:26","date_gmt":"2011-01-24T16:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=12476"},"modified":"2011-01-25T01:01:26","modified_gmt":"2011-01-24T16:01:26","slug":"iphone-app-to-experience-japanese-bad-boys-rite-of-passage-tobacco-burn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/iphone-app-to-experience-japanese-bad-boys-rite-of-passage-tobacco-burn\/","title":{"rendered":"Think You’ve Got What It Takes? iPhone App For Japanese Thugs’ Rite of Passage"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\nphoto by Macotakara<\/a> [J] <\/caption>\n

Studio Moriken<\/a>Studio Moriken<\/a> [J] has released a free iPhone application called
\nKonjoyaki<\/a> that lets users experience a piece of Japanese Yankee culture.
\n\u201cYankee\u201d in Japan does not mean North American – it refers to \u201cbad boys” or “thugs”<\/a>.
\n\"\"<\/a>
\nThe name of the app (‘Konjoyaki’ – literally \u201cBurn, with guts\u201d) comes from a popular form of initiation among yakuza-wannabe high school students. In this game, if you can call it that, you prove your courage by burning yourself and your mates with hot cigarette butts.
\nStudio Moriken’s app<\/a> is Konjoyaki minus the heat. You hold your fingers on the screen as long as possible on the screen, and the longer you press, the darker the ‘burn’ marks become.
\nvia MacOtakara<\/a> [J]
\n(proofread by Adam Walls)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

photo by Macotakara [J] Studio MorikenStudio Moriken [J] has released a free iPhone application called Konjoyaki that lets users experience a piece of Japanese Yankee culture. \u201cYankee\u201d in Japan does not mean North American – it refers to \u201cbad boys” or “thugs”. The name of the app (‘Konjoyaki’ – literally \u201cBurn, with guts\u201d) comes from… Continue reading Think You’ve Got What It Takes? iPhone App For Japanese Thugs’ Rite of Passage<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,32],"tags":[358,1732,1791,3707,4181],"class_list":["post-12476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-society","tag-bad-boys","tag-iphone","tag-japan","tag-tobacco","tag-yankee","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}