{"id":954009,"date":"2026-05-12T03:50:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T03:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/954009\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T03:50:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T03:50:16","slug":"meet-hiroshi-suzuki-the-japanese-envoy-showing-britons-how-to-love-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/954009\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Hiroshi Suzuki, the Japanese envoy showing Britons how to love Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hiroshi Suzuki, <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/japan?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"noopener\">Japan<\/a>\u2019s ambassador to Britain, is becoming a social media sensation as followers embrace his unbridled enthusiasm for everything the country has to offer.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Videos of him singing the Welsh national anthem, for example, and his valiant attempts to copy local dialects and expressions have generated an outpouring of love for him online.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Many comments say Suzuki is reminding often pessimistic Britons of the nation\u2019s achievements and rich heritage.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">His entertaining efforts have garnered the kind of publicity and recognition other embassies can only dream of, with a series of complimentary articles in prestigious publications.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Media commentators have also taken note and written about Suzuki\u2019s novel methods.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Since his arrival in November 2024, he has managed to accrue over 220,000 social media followers and many of his videos go viral and can be found on apps popular with younger audiences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hiroshi Suzuki, Japan\u2019s ambassador to Britain, is becoming a social media sensation as followers embrace his unbridled enthusiasm&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":954010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5018,3,4],"tags":[266295,192,748,43387,266293,154253,393,4884,266292,100612,2122,266291,179,2465,266294,1144,71827,712,107751,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-954009","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"category-uk","9":"category-united-kingdom","10":"tag-anglo-japanese-relations","11":"tag-bbc","12":"tag-britain","13":"tag-british-culture","14":"tag-caroline-wilson","15":"tag-eccles-cakes","16":"tag-england","17":"tag-great-britain","18":"tag-hiroshi-suzuki","19":"tag-irn-bru","20":"tag-japan","21":"tag-japanese-people","22":"tag-liverpool","23":"tag-manchester","24":"tag-mark-urban","25":"tag-northern-ireland","26":"tag-paddington-bear","27":"tag-scotland","28":"tag-shinzo-abe","29":"tag-uk","30":"tag-united-kingdom","31":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116559572264495564","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=954009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/954010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}