{"id":226384,"date":"2026-05-10T15:45:36","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T15:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/226384\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T15:45:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T15:45:36","slug":"fifth-japan-parade-cultural-promotion-event-held-in-manhattan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/226384\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifth Japan Parade cultural promotion event held in Manhattan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meanwhile, one male attendee who purchased &#8220;takoyaki&#8221;, pancake spheres filled with octopus pieces, mentioned he was tasting the dish for the very first time and thoroughly enjoyed it.<\/p>\n<p>Looking ahead to global travel, the southwestern prefecture of Nagasaki utilised the occasion to highlight its native &#8220;geikoshi&#8221; or &#8220;geisha&#8221; (local traditional female entertainers).<\/p>\n<p>This promotional effort aligns seamlessly with the city of Nagasaki recently being named on The New York Times&#8217; prestigious &#8220;52 places to go&#8221; list for 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Highlighting this regional tourism push, Yoshihiro Date, a cultural and tourism official for the prefecture, stated: &#8220;We hope many tourists will visit regional cities,&#8221; explicitly encouraging travellers to explore beyond major metropolises like Tokyo.<\/p>\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/lg-webp.webp\" alt=\"Fifth Japan Parade cultural promotion event held in Manhattan\" class=\"img-fluid w-100 showcaption-false\" style=\"width: 300px; height: 52px;\" width=\"300\" height=\"52\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>\n        <\/p>\n<p>[Copyright <a href=\"https:\/\/jen.jiji.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Jiji Press<\/a>, Ltd.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meanwhile, one male attendee who purchased &#8220;takoyaki&#8221;, pancake spheres filled with octopus pieces, mentioned he was tasting the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[1361,825,75,84,83,9,24,63,49070],"class_list":["post-226384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-event","tag-japan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-promotion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}