{"id":149242,"date":"2022-10-14T15:59:27","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T06:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=149242&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2022-10-14T15:59:27","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T06:59:27","slug":"incumbent-mayor-takashima-announces-candidacy","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/incumbent-mayor-takashima-announces-candidacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Incumbent Mayor Takashima Announces Candidacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Incumbent Mayor Takashima has announced his candidacy for a fourth term. At a press conference at around 4:30 p.m. on<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> October<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> 11, he announced his candidacy in the November 20 election. Mr. Takashima is 47 years old and a native of Oita Prefecture. After working as an announcer, he was elected mayor for the first time in 2010 and is currently serving his third term. <\/span><b>Source:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/soichiro.takashima.33\/posts\/2116266341917227\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mayor Takashima official facebook<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \/ <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/kbc.co.jp\/news\/article.php?id=9137647\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">KBC<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-149203\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/fnn_mayor-takashima-oct_2022_cl.jpeg?resize=1400%2C1038&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Incumbent Mayor Takashima Announces Candidacy\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1038\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/fnn_mayor-takashima-oct_2022_cl.jpeg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/fnn_mayor-takashima-oct_2022_cl.jpeg?resize=300%2C222&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/fnn_mayor-takashima-oct_2022_cl.jpeg?resize=1024%2C759&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/fnn_mayor-takashima-oct_2022_cl.jpeg?resize=768%2C569&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Get Fukuoka &amp; Kyushu area news and events in English regularly.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Sign up for our <\/span><b>free<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> weekly newsletter. Opt out at any time and privacy is protected. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/mailmagazine\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Get the \u201cNow\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Disclaimer: These summaries are from publicly posted contents. Errors might occur during translation. Images are sourced independently for illustrative purposes and credited appropriately. Use <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/contact\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">this form<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to send feedback or ask for edits.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Incumbent Mayor Takashima has announced his candidacy for a fourth term. At a press conference at around 4:30 p.m. on October 11, he announced his candidacy in the November 20 election&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29305,"featured_media":149214,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-149242","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-fukuoka-city","news-category-politics","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/149242","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=149242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}