{"id":80644,"date":"2015-04-15T15:15:11","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T06:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=60599"},"modified":"2016-04-01T02:46:26","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T17:46:26","slug":"toyotas-promotional-video-filmed-in-kitakyushu","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/toyotas-promotional-video-filmed-in-kitakyushu\/","title":{"rendered":"Toyota&#8217;s Promotional Video Filmed in Kitakyushu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toyota&#8217;s promotional video \u201cG&#8217;s Baseball Party\u201d is getting attention both within and outside of Japan. The video was filmed in downtown in Kitakyushu City. It has already been watched more than 4 million times, and featured on the MLB website. As \u201cG&#8217;s button\u201d emerges, the town changes into a huge baseball field and people start playing a super exciting game of street baseball. The commercial was shot between the end of February to the beginning of March with a support of the city. Kan Eguchi, an artist based in Fukuoka City, who created a promotional video for 2020 Tokyo Olympic, directed this unique and spectacular video. Together with 100 of local extras, Warren Cromartie, a retired American baseball player known for his career with Yomiuri Giants, can also be seen in the video.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/A1IWlba8NrA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toyota&#8217;s promotional video \u201cG&#8217;s Baseball Party\u201d is getting attention both within and outside of Japan. The video was filmed in downtown in Kitakyushu City. It has already been watched more than 4 million times, and featured on the MLB website. As \u201cG&#8217;s button\u201d emerges, the town changes into a huge baseball field and people start playing a super exciting game of street baseball. The commercial was shot between the end of February to the beginning of March with a support of the city. Kan Eguchi, an artist based in Fukuoka City, who created a promotional video for 2020 Tokyo Olympic, directed this unique and spectacular video. Together with 100 of local extras, Warren Cromartie, a retired American baseball player known for his career with Yomiuri Giants, can also be seen in the video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":60600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-80644","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-category-general","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/80644","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=80644"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}