{"id":19781,"date":"2026-04-25T01:57:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T17:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/?p=19781"},"modified":"2026-04-25T01:57:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T17:57:22","slug":"president-marcos-to-make-state-visit-to-japan-in-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/2026\/04\/25\/president-marcos-to-make-state-visit-to-japan-in-may\/","title":{"rendered":"PRESIDENT MARCOS TO MAKE STATE VISIT TO JAPAN IN MAY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>PRESIDENT Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and First Lady Louise Araneta-Marcos will embark on a State Visit to Japan from May 26 to 29, 2026, upon the invitation of the Japanese government.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>During the State Visit, the President and First Lady are set to be received by Their Majesties the Emperor and Empress of Japan at the Imperial Palace for a welcome ceremony, state call, and state banquet.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The President will hold a summit meeting with Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae, where the two leaders are expected to discuss the future trajectory of the Philippines-Japan Strengthened Strategic Partnership and continue their recent discussions on current international developments, especially with regard to energy and food security, and maritime security.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The President is scheduled to meet with Japanese business groups and the members of the Filipino community, as part of his official engagements during the State Visit.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The last State Visit to Japan by a Philippine President was undertaken by former President Benigno S. Aquino III in June 2015, while Their Majesties the Emperor Emeritus Akihito and Empress Emerita Michiko last undertook a State Visit to the Philippines in January 2016.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Philippines and Japan are commemorating the 70th anniversary of the normalization of their diplomatic relations this year. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PRESIDENT Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and First Lady Louise Araneta-Marcos will embark on a State Visit to Japan from May 26 to 29, 2026, upon the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19781"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19783,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19781\/revisions\/19783"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}