{"id":2262,"date":"2011-03-21T12:15:15","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T12:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jlgc.wordpress.com\/?p=2262"},"modified":"2021-05-19T17:10:26","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T16:10:26","slug":"bedford-looks-to-forge-links-with-japanese-firms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/international-exchange\/bedford-looks-to-forge-links-with-japanese-firms\/","title":{"rendered":"Bedford looks to forge links with Japanese firms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mayor of Bedford Dave Hodgson has paid a visit to Japanese company<\/p>\n<p>Fujifilm in his town, as part of a council plan for better engagement with local businesses.  The visit to the company&#8217;s site on the St Martin&#8217;s Way Business Park took place as part of the mayor&#8217;s &#8216;Open for Business&#8217; programme, where the mayor paid tribute to Fujifilm&#8217;s innovative product line and its <em>&#8220;special blend of the best of British and Japanese business cultures&#8230; an eclectic mix which draws on the best traditions of both countries.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Following his visit last week, the mayor said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It was a great pleasure to meet Fujifilm UK&#8217;s Managing Director Mr Matsushita and his colleagues, and I am grateful to them for their welcome and their warm attitude to myself and other representatives of the Council in attendance. I know that the Japanese members of staff here in Bedford will be thinking of home at this extremely difficult time, and I have written to the company to offer my sympathies and very best wishes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bedford.gov.uk\/council_and_democracy\/council_news\/fujifilm_uk.aspx\">Bedford Borough Council press release<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.daveformayor.org.uk\/en\/article\/2011\/474772\/visiting-one-of-bedford-s-hidden-giants\">Mayor Dave Hodgson&#8217;s website<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mayor of Bedford Dave Hodgson has paid a visit to Japanese company Fujifilm in his town, as part of a council plan for better engagement with local businesses. The visit to the company&#8217;s site on the St Martin&#8217;s Way Business Park took place as part of the mayor&#8217;s &#8216;Open for Business&#8217; programme, where the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-exchange"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9608,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2262\/revisions\/9608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}