{"id":59736,"date":"2020-06-24T18:07:08","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T10:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.likejapan.com\/en\/?p=59736"},"modified":"2020-06-26T09:57:39","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T01:57:39","slug":"starbucks-sign-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.likejapan.com\/en\/life\/starbucks-sign-language\/","title":{"rendered":"Starbucks Japan to open its first store using sign language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Starbucks Japan will open its first Signing Store in Kunitachi City, Tokyo, on 27 June!<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_59737\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-59737\" style=\"width: 580px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-59737 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.likejapan.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200624-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.likejapan.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200624-1.jpg 580w, https:\/\/www.likejapan.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200624-1-300x207.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-59737\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a92020 Starbucks Coffee Company. All Rights Reserved.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\nThe new Starbucks store will feature several Deaf and hearing-impaired employees among its staff, offering food, beverages, and services to customers in Japanese sign language. The area of Kunitachi has a long history of the Deaf and hard of hearing community, and the new store will be located near a school for the Deaf.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-59738 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.likejapan.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200624-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.likejapan.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200624-2.jpg 580w, https:\/\/www.likejapan.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200624-2-300x207.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This will be the fifth store of Starbucks that provides the signing language service internationally. Starbucks Japan has taken the \u2018\u2019no filter\u2019\u2019 approach to diversity and inclusion as it claimed in 2018. The purpose of the concept is to foster a culture rooted in human connection that embraces every individual. The upcoming store might be one of the showcases of the company\u2019s ongoing commitment to inclusion, accessibility<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and also diversity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-59739 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.likejapan.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200624-8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"1004\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.likejapan.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200624-8.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.likejapan.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200624-8-108x300.jpg 108w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-59740 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.likejapan.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200624-6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.likejapan.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200624-6.jpg 580w, https:\/\/www.likejapan.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200624-6-300x207.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Store information<br \/>\n<\/strong>Starbucks Coffee Kunitachi<br \/>\naddress: 1-6 Higashi, Kunitachi 150-0011 Tokyo Prefecture<br \/>\nTEL: 042-505-9223<br \/>\nOpen date: 27 June, 2020<br \/>\nBusiness time: 7:00-22:00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starbucks Japan will open its first Signing Store in Kunitachi City, Tokyo, on 27 June!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11215,"featured_media":59744,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,4,8,2],"tags":[9948,9949,9946,9950,9947,1416],"class_list":["post-59736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kanto","category-life","category-tokyo","category-travel","tag-deaf","tag-hearing-impaired","tag-kunitachi-city","tag-sign-language","tag-starbucks-japan","tag-tokyo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.likejapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.likejapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.likejapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.likejapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11215"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.likejapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59736"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.likejapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59751,"href":"https:\/\/www.likejapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59736\/revisions\/59751"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.likejapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.likejapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.likejapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.likejapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}