{"id":66353,"date":"2015-12-06T05:49:04","date_gmt":"2015-12-06T10:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=66353"},"modified":"2015-12-06T05:49:04","modified_gmt":"2015-12-06T10:49:04","slug":"preparations-underway-for-5-day-visit-of-japanese-imperial-couple-to-phl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/12\/06\/preparations-underway-for-5-day-visit-of-japanese-imperial-couple-to-phl\/","title":{"rendered":"Preparations underway for 5-day visit of Japanese imperial couple to PHL"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_66354\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-66354\" style=\"width: 278px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/500px-Emperor_Akihito_and_empress_Michiko_of_japan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-66354\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/500px-Emperor_Akihito_and_empress_Michiko_of_japan.jpg\" alt=\"The Emperor and Empress of Japan (Photo from Wikipedia)\" width=\"278\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/500px-Emperor_Akihito_and_empress_Michiko_of_japan.jpg 500w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/500px-Emperor_Akihito_and_empress_Michiko_of_japan-167x300.jpg 167w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 278px) 100vw, 278px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-66354\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Emperor and Empress of Japan<br \/> (Photo from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Akihito\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA, (PNA)\u2014The government has begun its preparations for the five-day visit of Japanese Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko in the Philippines in January next year.<\/p>\n<p>Presidential Communications Secretary Herminio Coloma Jr. said the Department of Foreign Affairs has been in constant communication with Japan&#8217;s Foreign Ministry and their embassy to finalize the itinerary of the Japanese royal couple.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sa kasalukuyan po ay ginagawa na ang mga kinauukulang preparasyon para sa pagdalaw nina Emperor Akihito at Empress Michiko sa susunod na buwan, sa Enero 2016 <em>(We are currently taking care of the preparation for the visit of Emperor Akihito and Empress Michico next month, January 2016)<\/em>,&#8221; Coloma said in a radio interview on government-run Radyo ng Bayan on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Coloma said the royal couple&#8217;s forthcoming visit would be &#8220;historic&#8221; noting that the two last visited the country in 1962.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the visit would be more significant since 2016 marks the 60th anniversary of the normalization of diplomatic relations between Japan and the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p>Last Friday, the Japanese embassy in Manila formally announced that the imperial couple would be leaving Tokyo on Jan. 26 to embark on a five-day trip to the Philippines upon the invitation of President Benigno Aquino III.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said that he and the people of Japan felt &#8220;immense pleasure&#8221; for the royal couple&#8217;s visit to Manila, adding that it would &#8220;further strengthen the intimate relations of friendship and goodwill&#8221; between Japan and the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p>President Aquino was given a royal welcome when he visited the Imperial Palace, the primary residence of Japan&#8217;s Emperor, during his state visit in Japan last June.<\/p>\n<p>It was that time the President reiterated his invitation for the royal couple to visit the Philippines. (PNA)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Italics are Philippine Canadian Inquirer\u2019s.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA, (PNA)\u2014The government has begun its preparations for the five-day visit of Japanese Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko in the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":66354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-66353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-original","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66353","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=66353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}