{"id":5819,"date":"2013-02-12T02:07:36","date_gmt":"2013-02-12T02:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/japanese-envoy-bids-farewell-to-president-kagame\/"},"modified":"2013-02-12T02:10:48","modified_gmt":"2013-02-12T02:10:48","slug":"japanese-envoy-bids-farewell-to-president-kagame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/japanese-envoy-bids-farewell-to-president-kagame\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Envoy Bids Farewell to President Kagame"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-1947 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/gftr.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>{{Outgoing Amb. Kunio Hatanaka, Japanese first Ambassador to Rwanda has bid farewell to President Paul Kagame in conclusion of his three-year tour of duty. }} <\/p>\n<p>Amb. Hatanaka extended the invitation from the Japanese Government to President Kagame to attend the upcoming TICAD meeting which will take place in Yokohama, Japan in June.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI sincerely thank the Government and leaders of this country for the assistance provided when we were establishing our embassy here. <\/p>\n<p>Our cooperation has been excellent; there has been reciprocal assistance between our two countries. <\/p>\n<p>We also appreciate the transparency and efficiency in the way this country uses aid and we look forward to further cooperation.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mary Baine said the outgoing Ambassador was a hands-on envoy who promoted cooperation between Rwanda and Japan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe used his vast experience in investment to encourage Japanese businessmen to invest in Rwanda. He also did a lot of work to see that the one-stop-border post at Rusumo was established and also funding of irrigation schemes in the Eastern Province through JICA.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{Outgoing Amb. Kunio Hatanaka, Japanese first Ambassador to Rwanda has bid farewell to President Paul Kagame in conclusion of his three-year tour of duty. }} Amb. Hatanaka extended the invitation from the Japanese Government to President Kagame to attend the upcoming TICAD meeting which will take place in Yokohama, Japan in June. \u201cI sincerely thank [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-5819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5819"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=5819"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=5819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}