{"id":135284,"date":"2020-09-10T13:24:57","date_gmt":"2020-09-10T04:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=135284&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2020-09-10T13:24:57","modified_gmt":"2020-09-10T04:24:57","slug":"minami-aso-opens-college-to-educate-international-it-specialist-for-tourism","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/minami-aso-opens-college-to-educate-international-it-specialist-for-tourism\/","title":{"rendered":"Minami-aso Opens College to Educate International IT Specialist for Tourism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A college specialized in IT and tourism education will be established in Minami-aso Village, Kumamoto Prefecture. The Idea, IT College Aso, will provide a two-year curriculum to educate guide interpreters and engineers. It plans to accept 80 students yearly, including approximately 40 exchange students. It will develop programs tailored to outer companies&#8217; needs and welcome lecturers from partner companies. Preparation to accommodate international students in the Kurokawa district of the village is also in progress. <\/span><b>Source:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/this.kiji.is\/673369543338476641?c=92619697908483575\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kumanichi<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \/ <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/mainichi.jp\/articles\/20200907\/ddl\/k43\/100\/225000c\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mainichi<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-135283\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/minami-aso.jpg?resize=1400%2C1050&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1050\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/minami-aso.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/minami-aso.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/minami-aso.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/minami-aso.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Photo by Fukuoka Now<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Disclaimer<\/i><\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Fukuoka Now posts summaries of Kyushu area news for those who cannot read Japanese. 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The Idea, IT College Aso, will provide a two-year curriculum to educate guide interpreters and engineers&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29305,"featured_media":135283,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-135284","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-aso","location-kumamoto-prefecture","news-category-society","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/135284","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\/29305"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135284"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}