{"id":420170,"date":"2026-08-01T00:02:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T00:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/420170\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T00:02:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T00:02:21","slug":"bakersfield-hosts-20-wakayama-japan-students-in-sister-city-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/420170\/","title":{"rendered":"Bakersfield hosts 20 Wakayama, Japan students in sister city program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The City of Bakersfield welcomed a group of international visitors this week as 20 students from its sister city of Wakayama, Japan, arrived for the 32nd Wakayama Summer Cultural Study Visit.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Photo: City of Bakersfield\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"364\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/3e628ce1-af91-4356-902d-f6c0d7611b19-image15.png\" width=\"648\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo: City of Bakersfield<\/p>\n<p>During their time in Bakersfield, the students met with Mayor Karen Goh at City Hall and toured Bakersfield Fire Station One.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Photo: City of Bakersfield\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"365\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/b77ab180-1769-4a41-a3d0-e52d41114887-image14.png\" width=\"648\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo: City of Bakersfield<\/p>\n<p>Bakersfield and Wakayama have shared a sister city partnership for more than six decades, building cultural connections through generations of student exchanges and official visits.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Photo: City of Bakersfield\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"364\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/5424c1ee-9814-41aa-abf5-64727e4979bf-image17.png\" width=\"648\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo: City of Bakersfield<\/p>\n<p>For more information on Bakersfield&#8217;s Sister Cities, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldsistercity.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">bakersfieldsistercity.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The City of Bakersfield welcomed a group of international visitors this week as 20&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420171,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-420170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}