{"id":71998,"date":"2016-03-27T08:33:48","date_gmt":"2016-03-26T23:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=71625"},"modified":"2016-04-01T00:45:17","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T15:45:17","slug":"fukuoka-follows-aichi-prefecture-bid-2026-asian-games","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/fukuoka-follows-aichi-prefecture-bid-2026-asian-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Fukuoka Follows Aichi Prefecture in Bid for 2026 Asian Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fukuoka Prefecture is reportedly bidding to host the 2026 Asian Games. The only other prefecture in Japan to bid so far is Aichi Prefecture, which confirmed its intent in January.\u00a0The Japanese Olympic Committee will begin the selection process for a single candidate. The final selection including other nations will be decided at the general meeting of the Olympic Council of Asia in 2018. The games were previously held in Japan twice with\u00a0Tokyo hosting in 1958 and Hiroshima in 1994. Source:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/sports\/2016\/03\/25\/general\/fukuoka-plans-bid-2026-asian-games\/#.VvaBmBJ94UE\">Japan Times<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_71624\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-71624\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/2006_Asian_Games_athletes_during_opening_ceremony.jpg?resize=640%2C374\" alt=\"Photo Credit: Le Dieu https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/deity\/314030271\/in\/photostream\/\" width=\"640\" height=\"374\" class=\"size-full wp-image-71624\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/2006_Asian_Games_athletes_during_opening_ceremony.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/2006_Asian_Games_athletes_during_opening_ceremony.jpg?resize=300%2C175&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-71624\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Credit: Le Dieu https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/deity\/314030271\/in\/photostream\/<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fukuoka Prefecture is reportedly bidding to host the 2026 Asian Games. The only other prefecture in Japan to bid so far is Aichi Prefecture, which confirmed its intent in January.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":71624,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-71998","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-category-sports","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/71998","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71998"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}