{"id":95717,"date":"2018-09-18T08:29:09","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T08:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=5d6b805113b39e8ffabc15c7b6033ece"},"modified":"2018-09-18T08:29:09","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T08:29:09","slug":"press-release-jeremy-hunt-takes-forward-new-era-of-friendship-with-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=95717","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Jeremy Hunt takes forward \u2018new era of friendship\u2019 with Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In the first speech in Japanese by a UK minister, Jeremy Hunt makes personal commitment to the Anglo-Japanese alliance.<\/p>\n

In remarks to representatives from UK-Japan exchange programmes, the Foreign Secretary is expected to say:<\/p>\n

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I came to this country for the first time in 1990 to learn Japanese. I lived for eight months in Kyoto, then six months in Nagasaki, followed by six months in Tokyo. I was introduced to Japan and wonderfully looked after by Japanese families all over the country, and I always try to meet them when I come back.<\/p>\n

Today, I am here to take forward the new era of friendship between Britain and Japan. We have so much in common as two island nations who strongly support the rules-based international system that has delivered peace and prosperity for many years.<\/p>\n

Our friendship stretches back to the Anglo-Japanese alliance of 1902 \u2013 and I am sure it will strengthen in the years ahead, not least because for the first time there is a British Foreign Secretary who can speak a little Japanese.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Attendees at the event will include representatives from the Oxford University Alumni Association, who has approximately 1,500 alumni living in Japan, the British Council and Daiwa Scholarships, an Anglo-Japanese Foundation established in 1988 to support closer links between Britain and Japan.<\/p>\n

The Foreign Secretary lived in Japan while in his twenties, and will today meet the families he stayed with at the time: the Fujimoto family, who he stayed with in Tokyo; and the Ito family he stayed with in Nagasaki.<\/p>\n

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