{"id":63219,"date":"2024-04-10T12:42:04","date_gmt":"2024-04-10T03:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/10\/joe-biden-us-japan-white-house-state-dinner-fumio-kishida-yuko"},"modified":"2024-04-10T12:42:04","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T03:42:04","slug":"cherry-blossoms-steak-and-paul-simon-the-bidens-put-on-a-show-for-japans-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=63219","title":{"rendered":"Cherry blossoms, steak and Paul Simon: the Bidens put on a show for Japan\u2019s PM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fumio and Yuko Kishida honoured with state dinner to recognise \u2018flourishing\u2019 relationship between US and Japan, says Jill Biden<\/p>\n<p>Dry-aged rib eye steak, cherry blossoms and the music of Paul Simon will be provided for the more than 200 guests expected to attend a White House state dinner being thrown for Japan\u2019s prime minister, Fumio Kishida, his wife, Yuko.<\/p>\n<p>A lavish state dinner is a tool of US diplomacy, and a high honour that is used sparingly and only to America\u2019s closest allies. In the case of Japan, President Joe Biden has chosen to celebrate an ally that he sees as a cornerstone of his policy toward the Indo-Pacific region.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/10\/joe-biden-us-japan-white-house-state-dinner-fumio-kishida-yuko\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fumio and Yuko Kishida honoured with state dinner to recognise \u2018flourishing\u2019 relationship between US and Japan, says Jill BidenDry-aged rib eye steak, cherry blossoms and the music of Paul Simon will be provided for the more than 200 guests expected to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,88,939,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-joe-biden","category-us-foreign-policy"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63219"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63229,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63219\/revisions\/63229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}