{"id":527,"date":"2020-10-26T10:30:08","date_gmt":"2020-10-26T01:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/messages\/527\/"},"modified":"2023-01-19T13:59:10","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T04:59:10","slug":"%e3%80%90%e9%80%a3%e8%bc%89%e3%80%91%e4%ba%ac%e9%83%bd%e3%81%ae%e7%ab%af%e3%81%8b%e3%82%89%e3%80%81%e3%81%93%e3%82%93%e3%81%ab%e3%81%a1%e3%81%af%e3%80%80%e7%ac%ac1%e5%9b%9e","status":"publish","type":"messages","link":"https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/en\/messages\/527\/","title":{"rendered":"Greetings from the Outskirts of Kyoto vol.1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/nichibun_nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/thumb-en-001-300x171.png\" alt=\"Greetings from the Outskirts of Kyoto vol.1\" width=\"700\" height=\"398\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-523\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/nichibun_nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/thumb-en-001-300x171.png 300w, https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/nichibun_nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/thumb-en-001-768x437.png 768w, https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/nichibun_nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/thumb-en-001-245x139.png 245w, https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/nichibun_nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/thumb-en-001-490x279.png 490w, https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/nichibun_nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/thumb-en-001.png 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p>I took up the position of Director-General of Nichibunken in April 2020. With the coronavirus pandemic moving into full swing soon thereafter, however, I\u2019ve been left in something of a limbo.<\/p>\r\n<p>My predecessor Komatsu Kazuhiko advised me that one of my duties would be to give talks, deliver messages representing Nichibunken, and appear at various events. I would need to be ready, he said, with something engaging and suitable to say for each and every occasion.<\/p>\r\n<p>But with events cancelled one after another, I have had occasion to attend very few face-to-face gatherings\u2014and international meetings, in particular, have become practically impossible to hold. So, despite being told that making speeches is my job, I have had no opportunity to fulfill that role. In fact, I have yet even to present an inaugural address as Director-General to my Nichibunken colleagues.<\/p>\r\n<p>Feeling rather abashed about not performing the role befitting to my post, I have come up with the idea of making amends by writing a series of essays online . I hope you will enjoy the series.<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":548,"template":"","message_category":[23],"class_list":["post-527","messages","type-messages","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","message_category-serialization-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/messages\/527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/messages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/messages"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"message_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/message_category?post=527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}