{"id":6182,"date":"2016-11-28T14:34:13","date_gmt":"2016-11-28T14:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/?p=6182"},"modified":"2016-12-07T14:47:26","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T14:47:26","slug":"local-to-global-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/international-exchange\/local-to-global-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Action Plan to promote Japan&#8217;s regions: new &#8216;Local to Global&#8217; Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This month Japan&#8217;s Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported that Foreign Minister\u00a0Mr Fumio Kishida visited Miyagi Prefecture with diplomats stationed in Japan from seven countries, as part of a new initiative, the &#8216;Local to Global&#8217; Project, which aims to promote the attractiveness of Japan&#8217;s regions worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>Under the project, Minister Kishida visited regional areas of Japan with foreign diplomats to share the attractiveness of the regions, engage in dialogue with local people, and promote each region&#8217;s appeal to the world, with the aim of connecting Japan\u2019s regional areas internationally and further revitalizing these areas.<\/p>\n<p>During a symposium held at Tohoku University on November 23, Minister Kishida announced a new Action Plan for promoting local appeals to the world based on three core initiatives: the expansion of sales channels for regional products, the promotion of tourism in Japan, and the acceleration of global interaction on a regional basis.<\/p>\n<p>Read the Ministry of Foreign Affairs press release <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mofa.go.jp\/press\/release\/press4e_001387.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This month Japan&#8217;s Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported that Foreign Minister\u00a0Mr Fumio Kishida visited Miyagi Prefecture with diplomats stationed in Japan from seven countries, as part of a new initiative, the &#8216;Local to Global&#8217; Project, which aims to promote the attractiveness of Japan&#8217;s regions worldwide. Under the project, Minister Kishida visited regional areas of Japan [&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":[15,19],"tags":[26,27,48],"class_list":["post-6182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-exchange","category-international-cooperation","tag-local-growth","tag-regional-revitalisation","tag-tokyo-2020"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6182","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=6182"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6189,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6182\/revisions\/6189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}