{"id":1909,"date":"2013-10-06T08:19:18","date_gmt":"2013-10-06T15:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/?p=1909"},"modified":"2013-10-06T08:19:18","modified_gmt":"2013-10-06T15:19:18","slug":"sea-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/06\/sea-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Sea Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Women diving into the ocean to <strong>pick abalones<\/strong> are known in Japan as <strong>\u201camas\u201d or \u201csea women\u201d.<\/strong> Ladies diving into waters of up to 20 meters deep have become one of Japan\u2019s trademarks, despite the fact that many of the \u2018amas\u2019 have lost their lives throughout the years due to the risky diving that is made just by wearing a simple mask. Some of them are in their 70s or 80s, but continue to dive.\u00a0A kilogram of wild abalone sells for around Y8,000, although most consumed in Japan are now farmed.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/06\/sea-women\/ama\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1910\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1910\" alt=\"Ama\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Ama-480x270.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Ama-480x270.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Ama-600x337.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Ama.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Women diving into the ocean to pick abalones are known in Japan as \u201camas\u201d or \u201csea women\u201d. Ladies diving into waters of up to 20 meters deep have become one of Japan\u2019s trademarks, despite the fact that many of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/06\/sea-women\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1909"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1913,"href":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1909\/revisions\/1913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}