{"id":14217,"date":"2011-06-01T14:03:50","date_gmt":"2011-06-01T05:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=14217"},"modified":"2011-06-01T14:03:50","modified_gmt":"2011-06-01T05:03:50","slug":"japans-foreign-ministry-opens-twitter-and-facebook-accounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/japans-foreign-ministry-opens-twitter-and-facebook-accounts\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s Foreign Ministry Opens Twitter And Facebook Accounts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/japan-mofa-twitter.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14218\" title=\"japan mofa twitter\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/japan-mofa-twitter.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"571\" height=\"409\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nBack in March, right after the earthquake and tsunami hit Japan, the Prime Minister&#8217;s Office <a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/16\/japan-prime-ministers-office-begins-english-twitter-to-inform-disaster-information\/\">opened a Twitter account<\/a> first before <a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/23\/13535\/\">launching a Facebook page<\/a> just a few days later. And yesterday, the country&#8217;s Ministry Of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) decided it&#8217;s time to do the same.<br \/>\nAccording to Foreign Minister Takeaki Matsumoto, the move to integrate social media in its communication channels to the public isn&#8217;t directly related to the earthquake. However, the web proved to be an effective means of communication in disaster situations after 3\/11, which was widely acknowledged by Japanese politics and mass media alike.<br \/>\nMatsumoto said his office will post information on both platforms in English and Japanese. Twitter and Facebook buttons have also been added to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mofa.go.jp\/mofaj\/\">Japanese MOFA website<\/a> already.<br \/>\nThe official MOFA Twitter account in English is <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/MofaJapan_en\">here<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/MofaJapan_jp\">Japanese<\/a>).<br \/>\nThe official MOFA Facebook page in English can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Ministry-of-Foreign-Affairs-of-Japan\/187313607986414\">here<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/ja-jp.facebook.com\/pages\/%E5%A4%96%E5%8B%99%E7%9C%81\/148659488539371\">Japanese<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in March, right after the earthquake and tsunami hit Japan, the Prime Minister&#8217;s Office opened a Twitter account first before launching a Facebook page just a few days later. And yesterday, the country&#8217;s Ministry Of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) decided it&#8217;s time to do the same. According to Foreign Minister Takeaki Matsumoto, the move to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/japans-foreign-ministry-opens-twitter-and-facebook-accounts\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Japan&#8217;s Foreign Ministry Opens Twitter And Facebook Accounts<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,24],"tags":[1131,1233,3856],"class_list":["post-14217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-news","tag-facebook","tag-foreign-ministry","tag-twitter","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}