{"id":55609,"date":"2016-05-09T18:40:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T16:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2016\/05\/09\/new-japanese-ambassador-gives-pope-binoculars-to-get-a-good-look-at-the-peripheries\/"},"modified":"2016-05-09T18:40:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-09T16:40:00","slug":"new-japanese-ambassador-gives-pope-binoculars-to-get-a-good-look-at-the-peripheries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2016\/05\/09\/new-japanese-ambassador-gives-pope-binoculars-to-get-a-good-look-at-the-peripheries\/","title":{"rendered":"New Japanese Ambassador gives Pope binoculars to get a good look at the \"peripheries\""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is how Japan's new Ambassador to the Holy See, Yoshio Matthew Nakamura, presented his credential letters.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>'Good morning, Holy Father. It is a great honor to present my credential letters to His Holiness.'<\/p>\n<p>The diplomat made a great effort to greet the Pope in Italian, but asked him to continue in English, so Pope Francis replied in English.<\/p>\n<p>'You are welcome.\u00e2?\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Then the ambassador introduced his delegation and his family. The women wore traditional Japanese kimonos, but the children were the real stars of the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>During the exchange of gifts, Yoshio Matthew Nakamura gave the Pope binoculars.<\/p>\n<p>'For you to see the lives of the people in the periphery.\u00e2?\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Pope Francis handed him a copy of Evangelii Gaudium and the encyclical Laudato Si'.<\/p>\n<p>The Vatican has maintained diplomatic relations with Japan since 1942. The land of the rising sun was also the first non-Christian state to establish diplomatic relations with the Holy See.<\/p>\n<p>AC\/MB<br \/>\nCTV<br \/>\n-SV<br \/>\n-BN<br \/>\nup: IPC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan and the Holy See established diplomatic relations in 1942.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":36711,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[197],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"http:\/\/youtu.be\/xEvkpQJSRs8","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bambasciatoregiapponeint.mov","type":"rrp","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55609"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}