{"id":4000,"date":"2015-07-23T23:31:58","date_gmt":"2015-07-23T23:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.j-pop.com\/?p=4000"},"modified":"2016-02-29T23:18:24","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T23:18:24","slug":"go-torch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.j-pop.com\/2015\/go-torch\/","title":{"rendered":"Here come the Go-torch Characters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.j-pop.com\/2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/chara.jpg\" alt=\"go-torch characters\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>When:<\/strong> August 8th (Sat) | 2:50pm &amp; August 9th (Sun)| 4:50pm<br \/>\n<strong>Where: <\/strong>Fort Mason Center<\/p>\n<p>Japan&#8217;s favorite Go-torch Characters (sometimes called Yuru-chara) will be joining J-POP SUMMIT at Fort Mason Center! Meet <a title=\"ossan\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/chicchai.ossan.en?fref=ts\" target=\"_blank\">Ossan<\/a> (often called Chicchai Ossan), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.j-pop.com\/guests\/sanasenabona\/\">SANASENABONA<\/a> from Sasebo, Japan, and the brother and sister bears from Hokkaido, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.j-pop.com\/guests\/koakkuma-akkuma\/\">KOAKKUMA &amp; AKKUMA<\/a>. They will also perform live on Fort Mason main stage both days, so don&#8217;t miss them!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Go-torch characters:<\/strong> There are more than 3,000 Japanese mascots in Japan. Each of them represent a specific prefecture or city.<\/p>\n<p>\u2605 Check out each character&#8217;s profile page!<br \/>\n\u261e <a href=\"\/guests\/chicchai-ossan\/\">Chicchai-Ossan page<\/a><br \/>\n\u261e <a href=\"http:\/\/www.j-pop.com\/guests\/sanasenabona\/\">SANASENABONA page<\/a><br \/>\n\u261e <a href=\"http:\/\/www.j-pop.com\/guests\/koakkuma-akkuma\/\">KOAKKUMA &amp; AKKUMA page<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">\u8a00\u8a9e\uff1a<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.j-pop.com\/asobisystem_guests-jpn\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.j-pop.com\/2015gogogo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/jpn.flag_button.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"28\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan&#8217;s favorite Go-torch Characters will be joining J-POP SUMMIT at Fort Mason Center! Meet Ossan[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4016,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,44,45,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-j-pop-news","category-events","category-guests","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.j-pop.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.j-pop.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.j-pop.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.j-pop.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.j-pop.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4000"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/www.j-pop.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4652,"href":"http:\/\/www.j-pop.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4000\/revisions\/4652"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.j-pop.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.j-pop.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.j-pop.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.j-pop.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}