{"id":85432,"date":"2017-01-16T20:56:57","date_gmt":"2017-01-17T01:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=85432"},"modified":"2017-01-16T20:56:57","modified_gmt":"2017-01-17T01:56:57","slug":"kennedy-bids-farewell-thanks-abe-for-supporting-u-s-japan-alliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/01\/16\/kennedy-bids-farewell-thanks-abe-for-supporting-u-s-japan-alliance\/","title":{"rendered":"Kennedy bids farewell, thanks Abe for supporting U.S.-Japan alliance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_85441\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-85441\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Ambassador_Caroline_Kennedy_Poses_for_a_Photo_in_Front_of_the_Itsukishima_Shrine_26278879571.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85441\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Ambassador_Caroline_Kennedy_Poses_for_a_Photo_in_Front_of_the_Itsukishima_Shrine_26278879571.jpg\" alt=\"Kennedy bids farewell, thanks Abe for supporting U.S.-Japan alliance (Photo by U.S. Department of State from United States [Public domain])\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Ambassador_Caroline_Kennedy_Poses_for_a_Photo_in_Front_of_the_Itsukishima_Shrine_26278879571.jpg 800w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Ambassador_Caroline_Kennedy_Poses_for_a_Photo_in_Front_of_the_Itsukishima_Shrine_26278879571-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Ambassador_Caroline_Kennedy_Poses_for_a_Photo_in_Front_of_the_Itsukishima_Shrine_26278879571-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-85441\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kennedy bids farewell, thanks Abe for supporting U.S.-Japan alliance (Photo by<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File%3AAmbassador_Caroline_Kennedy_Poses_for_a_Photo_in_Front_of_the_Itsukishima_Shrine_(26278879571).jpg\"> U.S. Department of State from <\/a>United States [Public domain])<\/figcaption><\/figure>TOKYO\u2014Outgoing U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy expressed her gratitude to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for his contribution to strengthening the U.S.-Japan alliance in her farewell message released Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want to thank Prime Minister Abe and the members of his government for working to strengthen our &#8216;alliance of hope&#8217; and for sharing President (Barack) Obama&#8217;s belief in the &#8216;power of reconciliation&#8217;,&#8221; said Kennedy, who is set to leave Japan on Wednesday, in a video message released by the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo.<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy cited Abe&#8217;s visit last December to Pearl Harbor, which was attacked by Japan in 1941, and for arranging Obama&#8217;s historic visit last May to Hiroshima, where the United States dropped an atomic bomb in 1945.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO\u2014Outgoing U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy expressed her gratitude to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for his contribution to strengthening &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":85441,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,16,17],"tags":[503,13708,13028,5732],"class_list":["post-85432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news","category-news-w","tag-barack-obama","tag-caroline-kennedy","tag-pearl-harbor","tag-shinzo-abe","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85432","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=85432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}