Kirk here reporting that an inadvertent post here by Mr. Yagi of the International Center is EXTREMELY popular, with a post reach as of 1 PM Friday of well over 50,000. If, somehow, you missed it, Mr. Yagi’s wildly popular post is here:
I say that the post was “inadvertent” because Mr. Yagi later told me he meant to post it to his own Facebook page but posted it to Kumamoto International instead.
Personally, even though I’ve posted thousands and thousands of times in the decade or so that I’ve been running this page on Facebook, I’ve never posted anything that so many people liked. The one precedent is the following post by fellow editor Sara Brown (now Sara Kubota):
Sara’s post got shared a lot because it contained a link to a useful website showing where they could get (free?) food after the earthquake in 2016. The website itself was in Japanese so I wasn’t really surprised that it got shared a lot.
Mr. Yagi’s post is nice but, to be honest, I didn’t expect it to take off like this. Maybe its popularity has something to do with it getting shared by Taylor Swift and Justin Bieber (just kidding ;) ).
Or, maybe it’s just that a lot more people like trams than I realized. By the way, if you like trams, remember that you can ride free tomorrow:
https://www.facebook.com/profile/100064554018003/search/?q=free%20bus