{"id":234052,"date":"2019-10-09T23:03:19","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T03:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=234052"},"modified":"2019-10-09T23:03:19","modified_gmt":"2019-10-10T03:03:19","slug":"japanese-diplomat-visits-ph-army-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/10\/09\/japanese-diplomat-visits-ph-army-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese diplomat visits PH Army chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FPhilippineArmy2028%2Fposts%2F2368855496696328&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"795\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; A ranking official of the Embassy of Japan in the Philippines paid a courtesy call on Philippine Army (PA) chief Lt. Gen. Macairog S. Alberto at the PA headquarters in Fort Bonifacio, Taguig City Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The visiting dignitary was Minister Yasushi Yamamoto, Deputy Chief of Mission of the Japanese Embassy, Army spokesperson Lt. Col. Ramon Zagala said in a statement Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The visit is part of Japan and the Philippines\u2019 constant efforts to strengthen bilateral ties.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur two countries\u2019 cooperation and exchanges should be upgraded further to support the [mutual] understanding,\u201d Yamamoto said.<\/p>\n<p>The Japanese official also expressed his gratitude to the PA in terms of military training and said that their forces learned much from their Filipino counterparts.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, Alberto recalled the recent visit of a Japanese team that inspected PA\u2019s humanitarian assistance and disaster relief equipment in coordination with the Army\u2019s Engineering Battalion.<\/p>\n<p>The collaboration aimed to enhance the command\u2019s abilities in responding to emergencies and rescue operations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have lots of disaster coming in the Philippines [such as earthquakes and typhoons], so we have this cooperation with your Army. We are planning more activities with you,\u201d the PA chief said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; A ranking official of the Embassy of Japan in the Philippines paid a courtesy call on Philippine Army (PA) &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":234053,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-priam-nepomuceno","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234052"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234055,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234052\/revisions\/234055"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}