{"id":144897,"date":"2022-03-02T17:50:03","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T08:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=144897&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2022-03-02T17:50:03","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T08:50:03","slug":"fukuoka-prefectural-assembly-unanimously-criticizes-russian-invasion","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/fukuoka-prefectural-assembly-unanimously-criticizes-russian-invasion\/","title":{"rendered":"Fukuoka Prefectural Assembly Unanimously Criticizes Russian Invasion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Fukuoka Prefectural assembly officially announced its objection against the Russian invasion of Ukraine. On Mar. 1, a proposal addressing Russia\u2019s ongoing military actions as intolerable brutality should be immediately ceased passed by a majority vote. The assembly also requires the Japanese government to protect Japanese nationals in Ukraine and work with other countries to take strict measures against Russia. <\/span><b>Source: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.asahi.com\/articles\/ASQ313VH1Q2XTIPE02C.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Asahi<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \/ <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/rkb.jp\/article\/91722\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">RKB<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-144898\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/fn_prefecture-fukuoka-assembly_2021-WEB.jpg?resize=1400%2C1050&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1050\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/fn_prefecture-fukuoka-assembly_2021-WEB.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/fn_prefecture-fukuoka-assembly_2021-WEB.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/fn_prefecture-fukuoka-assembly_2021-WEB.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/fn_prefecture-fukuoka-assembly_2021-WEB.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/>Photo by Fukuoka Now<\/span><\/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. These are mostly summaries of publicly posted news from the Japanese media. Errors might occur during translation, those are ours. Images are sourced separately and are for illustrative purposes only. Use<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/contact\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">this form<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to send feedback. Please share links to this page, it helps us.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">English language Fukuoka &amp; Kyushu local news summaries are <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/archive\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">posted here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> every day.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Or sign up for our <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/mailmagazine\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">free weekly newsletter<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with all the top stories in one convenient email.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More Kyushu news on<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FukuokaNow\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/fukuokanews\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Instagram<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/fukuokanow\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fukuoka Prefectural assembly officially announced its objection against the Russian invasion of Ukraine. On Mar. 1, a proposal addressing Russia\u2019s ongoing military actions as intolerable brutality should be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29305,"featured_media":144898,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-144897","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-fukuoka-prefecture","news-category-general","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/144897","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=144897"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}