{"id":188346,"date":"2025-10-09T15:33:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T15:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/188346\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T15:33:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T15:33:07","slug":"japanese-themed-race-days-a-winner-for-hong-kong-jockey-club-with-2-more-added","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/188346\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese-themed race days a winner for Hong Kong Jockey Club, with 2 more added"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The Hong Kong Jockey Club has expanded its popular Japanese-themed race days from two to four this year, a move aimed at drawing more spectators, including mainland Chinese and overseas visitors, by adding cultural elements from one of residents\u2019 favourite travel destinations.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The expansion of the \u201cJapan Nights\u201d event series was highlighted on Thursday in conjunction with the opening of the 2025 \u201cJapan Autumn Festival in Hong Kong\u201d, a two-month programme marking its 10th anniversary.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Hanane Sabri, head of racing marketing at the Jockey Club, said the increase in the number of events was a direct response to high demand.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cLast year we had only two Japanese nights and this year we are going to have four. So we expanded our budget in that regard because the Japan Nights were very successful last year,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kiichiro Takanami (left), executive committee chairman of the \u201cJapan Autumn Festival in Hong Kong\u201d, and Jun Miura, the consul-general. Photo: May Tse\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/232ef688-5d96-4402-99c8-74376a9e1c22_1126e908.jpg\" title=\"Kiichiro Takanami (left), executive committee chairman of the \u201cJapan Autumn Festival in Hong Kong\u201d, and Jun Miura, the consul-general. Photo: May Tse\"\/>Kiichiro Takanami (left), executive committee chairman of the \u201cJapan Autumn Festival in Hong Kong\u201d, and Jun Miura, the consul-general. Photo: May Tse<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Sabri said the club planned to create a fully immersive Japanese race-day experience appealing to the senses, which would include live bands from Japan, new culinary offerings and a lucky draw for travel vouchers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Hong Kong Jockey Club has expanded its popular Japanese-themed race days from two to four this year,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[82875,82884,82882,6875,386,82883,82878,82877,82879,82873,82874,82881,9581,3004,101,82880,82876,29129,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-188346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-racing","tag-four-seas-mercantile-holdings","tag-hanane-sabri","tag-happy-wednesday-japanese-festival","tag-hong-kong","tag-japan","tag-japan-autumn-festival-in-hong-kong","tag-japanese-consulate","tag-jetro-hong-kong","tag-kason-kung","tag-miura-jun","tag-miyazaki-prefectural-hong-kong-representative-office","tag-okinawa","tag-race","tag-racing","tag-sports","tag-the-hong-kong-jockey-club","tag-tokushima","tag-tokyo","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}