Japan’s Crown Prince and Princess Akishino have attended a ceremony marking 90 years of Japanese immigration to Paraguay. They are in the South American country on an official visit.<\/p>\n
Paraguayan President Santiago Pena also took part in Friday’s event with his wife. About 650 people including Japanese immigrants and Japanese-Paraguayans also attended.<\/p>\n
The Crown Prince gave a speech. He said Japanese immigrants and Japanese-Paraguayans have succeeded in Paraguay after overcoming a harsh natural environment and cultural and language differences.<\/p>\n
He also expressed hope that they will further contribute to the future of Paraguay and continue serving as a bridge between the two countries.<\/p>\n
The Crown Prince concluded by saying “Thank you” in both Spanish and an indigenous language. He received a round of applause.<\/p>\n
The Crown Prince and Princess mingled with government officials and representatives of Japanese immigrants and Japanese-Paraguayans at a reception later in the day.<\/p>\n
On Saturday, they will visit La Colmena, where the first group of Japanese immigrants settled. They will offer flowers at a memorial and remember the Japanese pioneers who died in accidents and from disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Japan’s Crown Prince and Princess Akishino have attended a ceremony marking 90 years of Japanese immigration to Paraguay.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[72,259,8,262,17,173,261,265,266,267,264,258,263,268,260,257],"class_list":["post-78372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-japan","tag-asia","tag-biz","tag-japan","tag-japan-broadcasting-corporation","tag-japanese","tag-news","tag-nhk","tag-nhk-world","tag-nhk-world-premium","tag-nhk-world-tv","tag-nhkworld","tag-nuclear","tag-public-broadcaster","tag-radio-japan","tag-tech","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}