{"id":181,"date":"2017-04-08T13:50:36","date_gmt":"2017-04-08T04:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.icot.or.jp\/?page_id=181"},"modified":"2017-04-11T11:50:39","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T02:50:39","slug":"greetings_en","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.icot.or.jp\/?page_id=181&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Greetings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am Ko Matsushita, the executive director of the International Choral Organization of Tokyo. I will be working as the executive director for two years, starting from April 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The International Choral Organization of Tokyo (ICOT) will mainly cooperate with the choral alliance of Tokyo \u201cKoyukai\u201d, to host and operate the Karuizawa International Choral Festival and the International Choral Composition Competition Japan, as you may know.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the ICOT will start a new international competition, namely the \u201cTokyo International Choir Competition\u201d, with the aim to improve the choral music field in Japan and Asia, and to activate international relationship to a further level.<\/p>\n<p>We will actively work with the hope to help introduce the choral movements around the world to Japan, and also to introduce the current situation of the Japanese choral community to the world.<\/p>\n<p>We will make our best efforts to contribute to the improvement of the choral community around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you all for your kind understanding and warm assistance to the ICOT.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">April 2017<br \/>\nExecutive director<br \/>\n Ko Matsushita<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c  no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer;\">\u4fdd\u5b58<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am Ko Matsushita, the executive director of the International Choral Organization of Tokyo. I will be workin &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.icot.or.jp\/?page_id=181&#038;lang=en\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Greetings&#8221; \u306e<\/span>\u7d9a\u304d\u3092\u8aad\u3080<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":152,"parent":244,"menu_order":10,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icot.or.jp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/181"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icot.or.jp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icot.or.jp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icot.or.jp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icot.or.jp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.icot.or.jp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":386,"href":"https:\/\/www.icot.or.jp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/181\/revisions\/386"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icot.or.jp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/244"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icot.or.jp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icot.or.jp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}