{"id":90238,"date":"2016-09-01T14:38:23","date_gmt":"2016-09-01T05:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=90238&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2016-09-01T14:38:23","modified_gmt":"2016-09-01T05:38:23","slug":"governor-fukuoka-prefecture-visits-finland","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/governor-fukuoka-prefecture-visits-finland\/","title":{"rendered":"Governor of Fukuoka Prefecture Visits Finland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Ogawa and members of the Prefectural Assembly visited Finland to commemorate the launch of Finnair\u2019s new Fukuoka-Helsinki route. The group visited Finnair headquarters where they met with CEO Pekka Vauramo. Governor Ogawa asked Mr. Vauramo to keep operating the new route until the end of the year instead of the scheduled end date of October to facilitate mutual exchange between the two cities. The delegation also visited the Finnish Tourist Board where they exchanged opinions on how to invigorate exchange between Europe and Kyushu. Furthermore, they pitched Fukuoka as a possible location for Finland\u2019s training camps ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games. Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fiba.jp\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.fiba.jp\/<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_90239\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-90239\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/finnair-first-flight-2016-161-Version-2-resized.jpeg?resize=640%2C427\" alt=\"Governor Ogawa at the ribbon cutting for the first Finnair flight to Fukuoka.\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" class=\"size-full wp-image-90239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/finnair-first-flight-2016-161-Version-2-resized.jpeg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/finnair-first-flight-2016-161-Version-2-resized.jpeg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-90239\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Governor Ogawa at the ribbon cutting for the first Finnair flight to Fukuoka.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Ogawa and members of the Prefectural Assembly visited Finland to commemorate the launch of Finnair\u2019s new Fukuoka-Helsinki route. The group visited Finnair headquarters where they met with CEO&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26750,"featured_media":90239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-90238","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\/90238","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\/26750"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}