{"id":713186,"date":"2026-07-27T07:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T07:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/713186\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T07:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T07:42:09","slug":"the-woman-on-a-mission-to-promote-stoke-on-trent-and-the-potteries-to-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/713186\/","title":{"rendered":"The woman on a mission to promote Stoke-on-Trent and the Potteries to Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A woman has been praised for her efforts in promoting the city of Stoke-on-Trent to Japan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Yuri Kawakami-Shotton runs Peak and Pottery Tours at the city&#8217;s Spode Museum, showcasing the region and the Potteries to overseas visitors from Japan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said she was inspired to spread the word about the city after watching a BBC News report about pottery firms falling into administration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;My father-in-law said: &#8216;Oh, because no one&#8217;s buying a dinner set anymore&#8217;,&#8221; she explained. &#8220;And I said, &#8216;Japanese people would buy, Japanese people would go to the museum and things. I can do that, I can maybe promote it for this city&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kawakami-Shotton said, since starting her tours, the dinner sets made in England have proved to be a hit in Japan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;My customers love it and then some of them, for example, they come in Spode, they can&#8217;t move, in front of the entrance, like &#8216;oh my god i&#8217;m in Stoke, i&#8217;m in Spode&#8217;,&#8221; she beamed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s like a legend.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman has been praised for her efforts in promoting the city of Stoke-on-Trent to Japan. Yuri Kawakami-Shotton&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":713187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-713186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-gb","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713186","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=713186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/713187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}