{"id":142899,"date":"2021-10-19T10:23:42","date_gmt":"2021-10-19T01:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=142899&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2021-10-19T10:31:35","modified_gmt":"2021-10-19T01:31:35","slug":"exile-member-appointed-as-okawa-furniture-advisor","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/exile-member-appointed-as-okawa-furniture-advisor\/","title":{"rendered":"EXILE Member appointed as Okawa Furniture Advisor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Keiji Kuroki, a member of the famous Japanese group EXILE, was appointed as the Okawa Furniture Advisor for 2021. The Kyushu-native performer and actor will work to raise awareness of the area&#8217;s furniture and also take part in the development of new products. Kuroki has been eager to promote the charms of Kyushu in the past years. <\/span><b>Source: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www3.nhk.or.jp\/fukuoka-news\/20211014\/5010013630.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NHK<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \/ <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/kbc.co.jp\/news\/article.php?id=7821485&amp;ymd=2021-10-14\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">KBC<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-142900\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/exile-ookawa-funiture.jpg?resize=1024%2C682&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/exile-ookawa-funiture.jpg?resize=1024%2C682&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/exile-ookawa-funiture.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/exile-ookawa-funiture.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/exile-ookawa-funiture.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/>Photo by <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/prtimes.jp\/main\/html\/rd\/p\/000000001.000088446.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">PR times<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Disclaimer<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Fukuoka Now posts summaries of Kyushu area news for those who cannot read Japanese. 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The Kyushu-native performer and actor will work to raise awareness of the area&#8217;s furniture and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29305,"featured_media":142900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-142899","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-fukuoka-prefecture","news-category-others","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/142899","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=142899"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}