{"id":66123,"date":"2024-08-08T21:00:46","date_gmt":"2024-08-08T12:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/08\/us-ambassador-to-skip-nagasaki-bomb-event-over-israeli-exclusion"},"modified":"2024-08-08T21:00:46","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T12:00:46","slug":"us-ambassador-to-skip-nagasaki-bomb-commemoration-over-israeli-exclusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=66123","title":{"rendered":"US ambassador to skip Nagasaki bomb commemoration over Israeli exclusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City\u2019s mayor says Israel not invited because of risk of protests at event honouring victims of 1945 nuclear blast<\/p>\n<p>The US ambassador to Japan will skip this year\u2019s memorial service for the nuclear attack on Nagasaki because Israel has not been invited, the embassy has said.<\/p>\n<p>Rahm Emanuel would not attend the event on Friday because it had been \u201cpoliticised\u201d by Nagasaki\u2019s decision not to invite Israel, the embassy said. Instead, he would honour the victims of the Nagasaki bombing at a ceremony at a Buddhist temple in Tokyo and a lower-ranked US official would attend the Nagasaki event, it said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/08\/us-ambassador-to-skip-nagasaki-bomb-event-over-israeli-exclusion\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City\u2019s mayor says Israel not invited because of risk of protests at event honouring victims of 1945 nuclear blastThe US ambassador to Japan will skip this year\u2019s memorial service for the nuclear attack on Nagasaki because Israel has not been invited, t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2342,"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":[41,1005,88,212,441,45,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-israel","category-japan","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-nuclear-weapons","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66123","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\/2342"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66124,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66123\/revisions\/66124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}