{"id":4913,"date":"2015-06-03T20:04:53","date_gmt":"2015-06-03T19:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/?p=4913"},"modified":"2021-05-19T16:42:45","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T15:42:45","slug":"tokyo-2020-to-promote-japans-distinctive-regional-cultural-offer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/international-exchange\/tokyo-2020-to-promote-japans-distinctive-regional-cultural-offer\/","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo 2020 to promote Japan\u2019s distinctive regional cultural offer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4915\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4915\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/70p3v500.jpg\" alt=\"Image: TMG Bureau of Citizens and Cultural Affairs\" width=\"600\" height=\"213\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4915\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/70p3v500.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/70p3v500-300x106.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4915\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image: TMG Bureau of Citizens and Cultural Affairs<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Tokyo Metropolitan Government (TMG) has released its &#8216;Tokyo Vision for Arts and Culture&#8217; to announce the basic direction of Tokyo\u2019s cultural policies, looking ahead to the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games and beyond. This complements other global strategies for promoting Tokyo to the world, such as last year\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/economic-activities\/tokyos-strategy-for-city-diplomacy\/\">\u2018Basic Strategy for City Diplomacy\u2019<\/a> and more recently the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/economic-activities\/tokyobrand\/\">\u2018Tokyo Brand\u2019<\/a> project.<\/p>\n<p>As well as recognising that <em>\u201cthe Tokyo 2020 Games present a huge opportunity to dramatically advance the promotion of the arts and culture in Tokyo and make Tokyo a strikingly unique, world-class cultural city\u201d<\/em>, the Vision also states that by acting in <em>\u201ccooperation with other prefectural governments, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government will turn Tokyo into a platform to showcase Japanese cultures to the entire world and also promote joint production of diverse forms of arts and culture of Tokyo and distinctive regional cultural projects.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Tokyo can enhance its value and develop as an attractive city by restructuring its arts and cultural resources and manifesting new possibilities. We must use the arts and culture to create a new Japan that will draw the attention of the world by not only undertaking these initiatives within Tokyo but spreading them across the country, and accelerating cultural exchanges within Japan.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can read the &#8216;Tokyo Vision for Arts and Culture&#8217; in full at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seikatubunka.metro.tokyo.jp\/lang\/en\/vision.html\">TMG Bureau of Culture and Citizens\u2019 website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tokyo Metropolitan Government (TMG) has released its &#8216;Tokyo Vision for Arts and Culture&#8217; to announce the basic direction of Tokyo\u2019s cultural policies, looking ahead to the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games and beyond. This complements other global strategies for promoting Tokyo to the world, such as last year\u2019s \u2018Basic Strategy for City Diplomacy\u2019 and more [&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-4913","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\/4913","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=4913"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9554,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4913\/revisions\/9554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}