{"id":5372,"date":"2015-08-27T12:59:39","date_gmt":"2015-08-27T17:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sevencycles.com\/blog\/?p=5372"},"modified":"2020-09-14T14:16:37","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T19:16:37","slug":"in-japanese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/in-japanese\/","title":{"rendered":"In Japanese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_0258.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5374 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_0258-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Seven Catalog Spread in Japanese Table of Contents\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_0258-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_0258-scaled-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_0258-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Without so many passionate cyclists, so many good people all over the world, there is no Seven. When we started out, we guessed that we could send bikes to every continent (and have), but that doesn&#8217;t happen without people who believe in what we do.<\/p>\n<p>Cycling is a thing that transcends language and culture. In fact some of our strongest partnerships are with people we can&#8217;t carry on a normal conversation with. They understand what we&#8217;re trying to do, and we understand what they want. Sometimes having to simplify your communication actually improves the end result. That has been our experience anyway.<\/p>\n<p>This week we received these photos of <a href=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/Webdata\/Brochure_form.php\" class=\"broken_link\">our latest brochure<\/a>, translated into Japanese. It&#8217;s both surreal and deeply satisfying, and we are grateful to our friends at <a href=\"http:\/\/sim-works.com\/\">Simworks<\/a> for making it happen.<\/p>\n<p>On the left, the Japanese version, on the right, the English.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_0257.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5373 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_0257-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Seven Catalogs US and Japan, side-by-side comparison\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_0257-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_0257-scaled-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_0257-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_0260.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5376 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_0260-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Seven Catalog spread of Employee portraits, in Japanese\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_0260-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_0260-scaled-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_0260-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_0259.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5375 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_0259-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Seven Catalog Spread in Japanese\" width=\"639\" height=\"479\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_0259-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_0259-scaled-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_0259-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Without so many passionate cyclists, so many good people all over the world, there is no Seven. When we started out, we guessed that we could send bikes to every continent (and have), but that doesn&#8217;t happen without people who believe in what we do. Cycling is a thing that transcends language and culture. In &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/in-japanese\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;In Japanese&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[109,710,41,456,21,22,452],"class_list":["post-5372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-brochure","tag-circles-japan","tag-friends-of-seven","tag-japan","tag-seven-distributors","tag-seven-retailers","tag-simworks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5372"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11853,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5372\/revisions\/11853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}