{"id":95165,"date":"2017-02-10T15:25:04","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T06:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=95165&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2017-03-23T15:14:24","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T06:14:24","slug":"visit-japans-valentine-village-in-kumamoto-pref","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/visit-japans-valentine-village-in-kumamoto-pref\/","title":{"rendered":"Visit Japan&#8217;s Valentine Village in Kumamoto Pref."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Kumamoto Pref<\/em>. &#8211; Sagara village has announced plans to collaborate with the village of Saint-Valentin in France to create Valentine\u2019s themed events. The village\u2019s name, Sagara (\u76f8\u826f in kanji), translates to \u2018better compatability\u2019 (\u76f8\u6027\u304c\u826f\u304f\u306a\u308b), and the people of Sagara hope couples who visit the city will find good fortune. The first Valentine\u2019s festival in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vill.sagara.lg.jp\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sagara village<\/a>\u00a0will be held on Feb. 12 (Sat.) and the village plans to continue with new projects from next year onwards. <strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sankei.com\/region\/news\/170204\/rgn1702040017-n1.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sankei News<\/a>, Feb. 4, 2017<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-95166\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/16422739_686114771571285_4045373987853627260_o-1024x341.jpg?resize=1024%2C341\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"341\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/16422739_686114771571285_4045373987853627260_o.jpg?resize=1024%2C341&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/16422739_686114771571285_4045373987853627260_o.jpg?resize=300%2C100&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/16422739_686114771571285_4045373987853627260_o.jpg?resize=768%2C256&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/16422739_686114771571285_4045373987853627260_o.jpg?w=2000&amp;ssl=1 2000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/16422739_686114771571285_4045373987853627260_o.jpg?w=3000&amp;ssl=1 3000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/vill.sagara\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<br \/>\n<em><strong>Disclaimer<\/strong>: Fukuoka Now posts summaries of Kyushu area related news for the benefit of those who cannot read Japanese. Contents posted here are mostly summaries of publicly posted news stories from Japanese media organizations. Errors might occur during translation. Those errors are ours, and not the news source\u2019s. Photos and images are sourced separately and are for illustrative purposes only. Please use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/contact\/\">this form<\/a> to send feedback and questions. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><em>Kumamoto Pref<\/em>. &#8211; Sagara village has announced plans to collaborate with the village of Saint-Valentin in France to create Valentine\u2019s themed events. The village\u2019s name, Sagara (\u76f8\u826f in kanji), translates to \u2018better compatability\u2019 (\u76f8\u6027\u304c\u826f\u304f\u306a\u308b), and the people of Sagara hope&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":95166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-95165","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-category-others","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/95165","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95165"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}