{"id":33,"date":"2015-04-23T19:53:37","date_gmt":"2015-04-23T19:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wasurenagusa.org.uk\/?page_id=33"},"modified":"2022-11-16T22:55:57","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T22:55:57","slug":"about-ja","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wasurenagusa.org.uk\/en\/about-ja\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan Association in the UK (JA)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The association was founded in November 1996 with a view to promote friendship within the Japanese community and to expedite mutual help through a spirit of voluntary activities. It was also hoped to contribute to the future develop-ment of the Japanese society as well as engen-dering a better understanding by acting as a bridge between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p>The JA\u2019s prime aim is to provide mutual support to Japanese speaker in the UK and to promote the Anglo-Japanese relationship. There are two main regular meetings (Koyokai, Nisuikai and etc).<\/p>\n<p>We send monthly newsletters and a seasonal jour-nal \u201cEikoku Shunjyu &#8211; Spring &amp; Autumn in Britain\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>We also maintain the Hendon Park Japanese Cemetery. Our other activities include the follow-ing:<\/p>\n<p>Summer bazaar, picnics and outings, occasional Japanese related events, the end of the year and a New Year Party.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Japan Association in the UK<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:secretary@japanassociation.org.uk\">secretary@japanassociation.org.uk<br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.japanassociation.org.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.japanassociation.org.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The association was founded in November 1996 with a view to promote friendship within the Japanese community and to expedite mutual help through a spirit of voluntary activities. It was also hoped to contribute to the future develop-ment of the Japanese society as well as engen-dering a better understanding by acting as a bridge between&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/wasurenagusa.org.uk\/en\/about-ja\/\" title=\"ReadJapan Association in the UK (JA)\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wasurenagusa.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wasurenagusa.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wasurenagusa.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wasurenagusa.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wasurenagusa.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/wasurenagusa.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":788,"href":"https:\/\/wasurenagusa.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33\/revisions\/788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wasurenagusa.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}