{"id":16362,"date":"2011-12-17T10:25:59","date_gmt":"2011-12-17T01:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=16362"},"modified":"2011-12-17T10:25:59","modified_gmt":"2011-12-17T01:25:59","slug":"bank-of-japan-starts-twitter-can-it-stop-too-high-yen-by-tweets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/bank-of-japan-starts-twitter-can-it-stop-too-high-yen-by-tweets\/","title":{"rendered":"Bank Of Japan Starts Twitter, Can It Stop Too-High Yen By Tweets?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/225px-Flag_of_Japan.svg_.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/225px-Flag_of_Japan.svg_.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"225px-Flag_of_Japan.svg\" width=\"225\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-16332\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/bank-of-japan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/bank-of-japan.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"bank-of-japan\" width=\"395\" height=\"208\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-16363\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nBank of Japan, Japan&#8217;s central bank, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boj.or.jp\/en\/announcements\/release_2011\/rel111216a.htm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a> [J] its immediate start of Twitter on December 16. Two Twitter account in <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Bank_of_Japan_j\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Japanese<\/a> and in <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Bank_of_Japan_e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">English<\/a> started tweeting.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/bank-of-japan-english-twitter.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/bank-of-japan-english-twitter-600x401.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"bank-of-japan-english-twitter\" width=\"600\" height=\"401\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-16364\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>These accounts provide updates on new releases on the Bank&#8217;s web site.  In addition, the Bank may, when necessary, as in cases of emergency, communicate its messages through these accounts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Japanese account has tweeted 4 messages, but English one has 2 tweets so far. It seems English account only tweets only when there is an English web page matched with the message.<br \/>\nJapanese Yen has been being in historic high, despite national debt and two decades economical stagnation. Bank of Japan is always pressured by pro-export industries and politicians.<br \/>\nEspecially after the Eastern Japan disaster last March 11, many government and government-related organization began Twitter after criticism for not being open, some of them are in English, including <a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/16\/japan-prime-ministers-office-begins-english-twitter-to-inform-disaster-information\/\">Prime Minister\u2019s Office (English one)<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/17\/tokyo-electric-power-co-tepco-starts-twitter-to-provide-updates\/\">Tokyo Electric Power Co.(TEPCO)<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/21\/japan-ground-self-defense-force-starts-twitter\/\">Japan Ground Self-Defense Force<\/a> (=army, though they are not allowed to identity themselves so).<br \/>\nAll links on the tweets are abbreviated by twme.jp, which is provided by CGM Marketing, a subsidiary of Digital Garage who assists Twitter&#8217; localization. It shows Bank of Japan uses Tweetmanager by CGM Marketing, who also manages Twitter guiding portal TwiNavi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bank of Japan, Japan&#8217;s central bank, announced [J] its immediate start of Twitter on December 16. Two Twitter account in Japanese and in English started tweeting. These accounts provide updates on new releases on the Bank&#8217;s web site. In addition, the Bank may, when necessary, as in cases of emergency, communicate its messages through these&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/bank-of-japan-starts-twitter-can-it-stop-too-high-yen-by-tweets\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bank Of Japan Starts Twitter, Can It Stop Too-High Yen By Tweets?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16364,"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":[17,24],"tags":[374,599,1075,1431,3856],"class_list":["post-16362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-japan","category-news","tag-bank-of-japan","tag-central-bank","tag-english","tag-government","tag-twitter","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16362","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=16362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}