{"id":129469,"date":"2020-01-31T14:55:19","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T05:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=129469&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2020-01-31T14:55:19","modified_gmt":"2020-01-31T05:55:19","slug":"oita-prefecture-and-wales-continue-ties-after-rugby-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/oita-prefecture-and-wales-continue-ties-after-rugby-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Oita Prefecture and Wales Continue Ties After Rugby World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A government official from Wales visited Oita Prefecture on January 29 to propose a stronger bi-regional collaboration. Robin Walker, Chief Representative of the Welsh Government in Japan, expressed his gratitude for receiving a warm welcome to the Welsh rugby team during Rugby World Cup. He also proposed a continued connection between the two regions, including educational and economic exchange, as well as an event to introduce Wales through an event. <strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www3.nhk.or.jp\/lnews\/oita\/20200129\/5070005774.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">NHK-TV<\/a> 01\/29\/2020<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/wales-in-oita.png?resize=900%2C555&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"555\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-129471\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/wales-in-oita.png?w=900&amp;ssl=1 900w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/wales-in-oita.png?resize=300%2C185&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/wales-in-oita.png?resize=768%2C474&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/> Photo: NHK TV<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Disclaimer<\/strong>: Fukuoka Now posts summaries of Kyushu area related news for the benefit of those who cannot read Japanese. Contents posted here are mostly summaries of publicly posted news stories from Japanese media organizations. Errors might occur during translation. Those errors are ours, and not the news source\u2019s. Photos and images are sourced separately and are for illustrative purposes only. Please use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/contact\/\">this form<\/a> to send feedback and questions.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A government official from Wales visited Oita Prefecture on January 29 to propose a stronger&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29355,"featured_media":129471,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-129469","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-oita-prefecture","news-category-business","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/129469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29355"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129469"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}