{"id":421889,"date":"2026-02-12T14:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T14:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/421889\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T14:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T14:18:08","slug":"japans-uk-ambassador-enjoys-a-wee-swally-before-attending-celtic-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/421889\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s UK ambassador enjoys &#8216;a wee swally&#8217; before attending Celtic match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japan\u2019s UK ambassador has gone viral after enjoying \u201ca wee swally\u201d before he attended Celtic\u2019s win over Livingston on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Hiroshi Suzuki has become somewhat of a social media star across the country, with the diplomat being dubbed the \u201cPaddington Bear of ambassadors\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In his most recent trip to Scotland, the Japanese politician posted a video of himself enjoying a pre-match pint of Tennents before heading to Celtic Park to cheer on compatriots Reo Hatate and Daizen Maeda.<\/p>\n<p>The video has been viewed almost 350,000 times and received 12,000 likes.<\/p>\n<p>During his last trip north of the border, Suzuki went viral after taking his first sip of Irn-Bru and describing it as \u201cjust great\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>A picture posted on X, formerly Twitter, of Suzuki trying a teacake gained more than 46,000 likes, while his video of eating haggis gained more than 800,000 views on the platform.<\/p>\n<p>STV News is now on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Get all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaCESJzKgsNvKKNOYO2r\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">      Follow STV News <\/a>Follow STV News on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Scan the QR code on your mobile device for all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/whatsapp-qr.png\" alt=\"WhatsApp channel QR Code\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s UK ambassador has gone viral after enjoying \u201ca wee swally\u201d before he attended Celtic\u2019s win over Livingston&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-421889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421889","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=421889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}