{"id":19281,"date":"2022-01-23T20:00:34","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T04:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhollywoodnet.com\/?post_type=socaljapan&#038;p=19281"},"modified":"2022-01-23T14:44:43","modified_gmt":"2022-01-23T22:44:43","slug":"2022%e5%b9%b41%e6%9c%8823%e6%97%a5-%e6%94%be%e9%80%81","status":"publish","type":"socaljapan","link":"https:\/\/jhollywoodnet.com\/en\/socaljapan\/2022%e5%b9%b41%e6%9c%8823%e6%97%a5-%e6%94%be%e9%80%81\/","title":{"rendered":"January 23rd 2022 O.A."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p><\/p>\n<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">January 23rd 2022 O.A.<\/h2>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AyFPvqRystA\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h2>Asian American Expo<\/h2>\n<p>Asian American Expo, an expo sharing Asian products and business happened on January 14th and 15th at Pomona.<\/p>\n<p>This event is held annually during Chinese New Year.<br \/>\nA physical event was held for the first time in 2 years since it had to be done virtually last year due to the impact of COVID-19<\/p>\n<p>It originally started in 1982 in the name of Chinese American Expo, however, evolved into an expo where different Asian vendors participate including Japanese businesses.<\/p>\n<p>Booths were placed in 7 different halls and either introduced their new or major products at an exclusive price or promoted Chinese New Year.<\/p>\n<p>It is the largest Chinese New Year event in the US attracting more than 100 thousand people.<br \/>\nThis year, visitors had to present their vaccination record or negative COVID-19 test results.<br \/>\nThere were fewer people due to the outbreak of the Omicron variant.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the current situation, anime-related booths attracted many people in 3 different halls with fans cosplaying and purchasing merchandise.<\/p>\n<p>Asian street food lined up outside as well.<\/p>\n<p>For Japanese food, there were yakisoba, yakitori and takoyaki.<br \/>\nEveryone enjoyed their favorite Asian food.<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asian American Expo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":19294,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"socaljapan_category":[272],"socaljapan_tag":[],"class_list":["post-19281","socaljapan","type-socaljapan","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","socaljapan_category-2022-01-january"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jhollywoodnet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/socaljapan\/19281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jhollywoodnet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/socaljapan"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jhollywoodnet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/socaljapan"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jhollywoodnet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19281"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jhollywoodnet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/socaljapan\/19281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19282,"href":"https:\/\/jhollywoodnet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/socaljapan\/19281\/revisions\/19282"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jhollywoodnet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jhollywoodnet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"socaljapan_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jhollywoodnet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/socaljapan_category?post=19281"},{"taxonomy":"socaljapan_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jhollywoodnet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/socaljapan_tag?post=19281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}