{"id":7220,"date":"2016-03-04T14:14:07","date_gmt":"2016-03-04T18:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/?p=7220"},"modified":"2023-08-02T13:44:42","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T17:44:42","slug":"japaneseaward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/japaneseaward\/","title":{"rendered":"K Shines in Japanese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/03\/apaneseLanguageContest.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7221\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-7221 size-full\" src=\"\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/03\/apaneseLanguageContest.jpg\" alt=\"Students Compete in Japanese Language Contest\" width=\"600\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/03\/apaneseLanguageContest.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/03\/apaneseLanguageContest-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/03\/apaneseLanguageContest-419x300.jpg 419w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>Kalamazoo College students dominated the 2016 Japanese Language Speech Contest held at the Novi (Mich.) Civic Center in late February. <strong>Christa Scheck \u201917<\/strong> won third prize for her speech, &#8220;Translating Japanese Into English: the Problems of Literal Translation.&#8221; Senior <strong>Jamie Heywood<\/strong> took home the Consulate General Prize for her presentation, &#8220;Experiences of a Homosexual.&#8221; And junior<strong> Ke Sheng<\/strong> was cited with an honorable mention for his speech, &#8220;Japanese Cellphones.&#8221; K\u2019s participation this year was marked by two firsts: the first time in K\u2019s history a student placed in the top three; the first time K students won multiple prizes in the same year, taking three of the total of five! Pictured are (l-r): front row&#8211;<strong>Yilang Qiu \u201918<\/strong>, <strong>Jie Xu \u201917<\/strong>, and visiting international student <strong>Naori Nishimura<\/strong>; back row&#8211;Assistant Professor of Japanese <strong>Noriko Sugimori<\/strong>, Ke Sheng, Crista Scheck, Jamie Heywood and Consul General Mitsuhiro Wada. This contest is organized by the Japanese Consulate General of Japan in Detroit and is sponsored by, among others, Delta Air Lines, the Japan Business Society of Detroit and the Japan Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kalamazoo College students dominated the 2016 Japanese Language Speech Contest held at the Novi (Mich.) Civic Center in late February. Christa Scheck \u201917 won third prize for her speech, &#8220;Translating Japanese Into English: the Problems of Literal Translation.&#8221; Senior Jamie Heywood took home the Consulate General Prize for her presentation, &#8220;Experiences of a Homosexual.&#8221; And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":7222,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[231],"tags":[30,65,38],"post_formats":[],"class_list":["post-7220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-students","tag-awards","tag-japanese","tag-students"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\r\n<title>K Shines in Japanese - News and Events<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Kalamazoo College students dominated the 2016 Japanese Language Speech Contest held at the Novi (Mich.) Civic Center in late February. Christa Scheck \u201917\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/japaneseaward\/\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"K Shines in Japanese - News and Events\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Kalamazoo College students dominated the 2016 Japanese Language Speech Contest held at the Novi (Mich.) Civic Center in late February. Christa Scheck \u201917\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/japaneseaward\/\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"News and Events\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/KalamazooCollege\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-03-04T18:14:07+00:00\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-08-02T17:44:42+00:00\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/03\/apaneseLanguageContestThumb.jpg\" \/>\r\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"300\" \/>\r\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"290\" \/>\r\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Jim Van Sweden\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@kcollege\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@kcollege\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Jim Van Sweden\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\r\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/japaneseaward\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/japaneseaward\/\",\"name\":\"K Shines in Japanese - News and Events\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/japaneseaward\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/japaneseaward\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/03\/apaneseLanguageContestThumb.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2016-03-04T18:14:07+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-08-02T17:44:42+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/33b812ef7fd17031ab566856049c97af\"},\"description\":\"Kalamazoo College students dominated the 2016 Japanese Language Speech Contest held at the Novi (Mich.) Civic Center in late February. Christa Scheck \u201917\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/japaneseaward\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/japaneseaward\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/japaneseaward\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/03\/apaneseLanguageContestThumb.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/03\/apaneseLanguageContestThumb.jpg\",\"width\":300,\"height\":290,\"caption\":\"Students display awards from Japanese speaking contest\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/japaneseaward\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"K Shines in Japanese\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/\",\"name\":\"News and Events\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/33b812ef7fd17031ab566856049c97af\",\"name\":\"Jim Van Sweden\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/25d851921c00e5d3b76e386535f86c38?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/25d851921c00e5d3b76e386535f86c38?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Jim Van Sweden\"},\"description\":\"Director, College Communications\"}]}<\/script>\r\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"K Shines in Japanese - News and Events","description":"Kalamazoo College students dominated the 2016 Japanese Language Speech Contest held at the Novi (Mich.) Civic Center in late February. Christa Scheck \u201917","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/japaneseaward\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"K Shines in Japanese - News and Events","og_description":"Kalamazoo College students dominated the 2016 Japanese Language Speech Contest held at the Novi (Mich.) Civic Center in late February. Christa Scheck \u201917","og_url":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/japaneseaward\/","og_site_name":"News and Events","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/KalamazooCollege","article_published_time":"2016-03-04T18:14:07+00:00","article_modified_time":"2023-08-02T17:44:42+00:00","og_image":[{"width":300,"height":290,"url":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/03\/apaneseLanguageContestThumb.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Jim Van Sweden","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@kcollege","twitter_site":"@kcollege","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Jim Van Sweden","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/japaneseaward\/","url":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/japaneseaward\/","name":"K Shines in Japanese - News and Events","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/japaneseaward\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/japaneseaward\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/03\/apaneseLanguageContestThumb.jpg","datePublished":"2016-03-04T18:14:07+00:00","dateModified":"2023-08-02T17:44:42+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/33b812ef7fd17031ab566856049c97af"},"description":"Kalamazoo College students dominated the 2016 Japanese Language Speech Contest held at the Novi (Mich.) Civic Center in late February. Christa Scheck \u201917","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/japaneseaward\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/japaneseaward\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/japaneseaward\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/03\/apaneseLanguageContestThumb.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/03\/apaneseLanguageContestThumb.jpg","width":300,"height":290,"caption":"Students display awards from Japanese speaking contest"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/japaneseaward\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"K Shines in Japanese"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/","name":"News and Events","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/33b812ef7fd17031ab566856049c97af","name":"Jim Van Sweden","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/25d851921c00e5d3b76e386535f86c38?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/25d851921c00e5d3b76e386535f86c38?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Jim Van Sweden"},"description":"Director, College Communications"}]}},"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/03\/apaneseLanguageContestThumb.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/03\/apaneseLanguageContestThumb.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Jim Van Sweden","author_link":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/author\/jvsweden\/"},"guten_post_layout_featured_media_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/03\/apaneseLanguageContestThumb.jpg",300,290,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/03\/apaneseLanguageContestThumb-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/03\/apaneseLanguageContestThumb-300x290.jpg",300,290,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/03\/apaneseLanguageContestThumb.jpg",300,290,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/03\/apaneseLanguageContestThumb.jpg",300,290,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/03\/apaneseLanguageContestThumb.jpg",300,290,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/03\/apaneseLanguageContestThumb.jpg",300,290,false],"ab-block-post-grid-landscape":["https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/03\/apaneseLanguageContestThumb.jpg",300,290,false],"ab-block-post-grid-square":["https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/03\/apaneseLanguageContestThumb.jpg",300,290,false],"pl-blogpost-landscape":["https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/03\/apaneseLanguageContestThumb.jpg",300,290,false],"pl-blogpost-square":["https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/03\/apaneseLanguageContestThumb.jpg",300,290,false],"guten_post_layout_landscape_large":["https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/03\/apaneseLanguageContestThumb.jpg",300,290,false],"guten_post_layout_portrait_large":["https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/03\/apaneseLanguageContestThumb.jpg",300,290,false],"guten_post_layout_square_large":["https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/03\/apaneseLanguageContestThumb.jpg",300,290,false],"guten_post_layout_landscape":["https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/03\/apaneseLanguageContestThumb.jpg",300,290,false],"guten_post_layout_portrait":["https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/03\/apaneseLanguageContestThumb.jpg",300,290,false],"guten_post_layout_square":["https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/03\/apaneseLanguageContestThumb.jpg",300,290,false],"campus-posts-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/03\/apaneseLanguageContestThumb.jpg",300,290,false],"gform-image-choice-sm":["https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/03\/apaneseLanguageContestThumb.jpg",300,290,false],"gform-image-choice-md":["https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/03\/apaneseLanguageContestThumb.jpg",300,290,false],"gform-image-choice-lg":["https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/03\/apaneseLanguageContestThumb.jpg",300,290,false]},"category_info":"<a aria-label=\"archive of category Students\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/category\/students\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Students<\/a>","tags_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/tag\/awards\/\" rel=\"tag\">awards<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/tag\/japanese\/\" rel=\"tag\">Japanese<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/tag\/students\/\" rel=\"tag\">students<\/a>","social_share_info":"<a data-share=\"facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/japaneseaward\/\" class=\"pl-facebook-share social-share-default pl-social-share\" target=\"_blank\"><i class=\"fab fa-facebook-f\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/a><a data-share=\"twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/japaneseaward\/\" class=\"pl-twiiter-share social-share-default pl-social-share\" target=\"_blank\"><i class=\"fab fa-twitter\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/a><a data-share=\"linkedin\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?url=https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/japaneseaward\/\" class=\"pl-linkedin-share social-share-default pl-social-share\" target=\"_blank\"><i class=\"fab fa-linkedin-in\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/a>","wordExcerpt_info":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/03\/apaneseLanguageContest.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7221\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-7221 size-full\" src=\"\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/03\/apaneseLanguageContest.jpg\" alt=\"Students Compete in Japanese Language Contest\" width=\"600\" height=\"430\" \/><\/a>Kalamazoo College students dominated the 2016 Japanese Language Speech Contest held at the Novi (Mich.) Civic Center in late February. <strong>Christa Scheck \u201917<\/strong> won third prize for her speech, &#8220;Translating Japanese Into English: the Problems of Literal Translation.&#8221; Senior <strong>Jamie Heywood<\/strong> took home the Consulate General Prize for her presentation, &#8220;Experiences of a Homosexual.&#8221; And junior<strong> Ke Sheng<\/strong> was cited with an honorable mention for his speech, &#8220;Japanese Cellphones.&#8221; K\u2019s participation this year was marked by two firsts: the first time in K\u2019s history a student placed in the top three; the first time K students won multiple prizes in the same year, taking three of the total of five! Pictured are (l-r): front row&#8211;<strong>Yilang Qiu \u201918<\/strong>, <strong>Jie Xu \u201917<\/strong>, and visiting international student <strong>Naori Nishimura<\/strong>; back row&#8211;Assistant Professor of Japanese <strong>Noriko Sugimori<\/strong>, Ke Sheng, Crista Scheck, Jamie Heywood and Consul General Mitsuhiro Wada. This contest is organized by the Japanese Consulate General of Japan in Detroit and is sponsored by, among others, Delta Air Lines, the Japan Business Society of Detroit and the Japan Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","comment_info":"No Comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7220"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20416,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7220\/revisions\/20416"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7220"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_formats?post=7220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}