{"id":150173,"date":"2022-11-25T11:20:31","date_gmt":"2022-11-25T02:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=150173&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2022-11-25T11:20:31","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T02:20:31","slug":"76-year-old-man-donates-ambulance-to-chikugo-city","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/76-year-old-man-donates-ambulance-to-chikugo-city\/","title":{"rendered":"76 Year Old Man Donates Ambulance to Chikugo City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A 76-year-old man from Chikugo City diagnosed with leukemia three years ago donated 30 million yen to the city to purchase an ambulance. On November 24, a letter of appreciation was presented to him. On the 24th, a letter of appreciation was presented by the mayor. Mr. Fujiyoshi has been managing restaurants and cooking school lunches for kindergartens in Fukuoka City, but he was diagnosed with leukemia three years ago. He was moved by the sight of medical personnel working to save lives at the hospital where he was hospitalized and decided to donate to his hometown of Chikugo City to be used for the purchase of an ambulance. <\/span><b>Source: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www3.nhk.or.jp\/fukuoka-news\/20221124\/5010018247.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NHK<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-150166\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/fnn_chikugo-city-ambulance_2022_cl.jpg?resize=1400%2C791&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"76 Year Old Man Donates Ambulance to Chikugo City\" width=\"1400\" height=\"791\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/fnn_chikugo-city-ambulance_2022_cl.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/fnn_chikugo-city-ambulance_2022_cl.jpg?resize=300%2C170&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/fnn_chikugo-city-ambulance_2022_cl.jpg?resize=1024%2C579&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/fnn_chikugo-city-ambulance_2022_cl.jpg?resize=768%2C434&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>A 76-year-old man from Chikugo City diagnosed with leukemia three years ago donated 30 million yen to the city to purchase an ambulance. On November 24, a letter of appreciation was presented to him. On the 24th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29305,"featured_media":150169,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-150173","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\/150173","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=150173"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}