{"id":94259,"date":"2020-02-26T07:46:14","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T07:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/japan-pledges-3-8-million-for-preserving-heritage-sites-in-bamyan\/"},"modified":"2020-02-26T07:46:14","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T07:46:14","slug":"japan-pledges-3-8-million-for-preserving-heritage-sites-in-bamyan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/japan-pledges-3-8-million-for-preserving-heritage-sites-in-bamyan\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan pledges $ 3.8 million for preserving heritage sites in Bamyan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"262\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2020\/February\/26\/bamyan.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>KABUL (SW) &ndash; The Embassy of Japan on Wednesday pledged to grant $ 3.8 million for restoring and preserving heritage sites in Bamyan.<\/p>\n<p>The Embassy of Japan hosted a signing ceremony in this connection on Wednesday. Japanese Ambassador to Afghanistan, Mitsuji&nbsp;Suzuka, said on the occasion that this fund would be used to help take the historic heritage sites of Bamyan out of danger of destruction.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Minister for information and culture, Mohammad Rasul Bawari, hailed the generous support by Japan in this regard. He also highlighted other projects initiated and supported by Japan in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Jordan Naido, Director, Unesco Kabul Office and Country Representative Afghanistan at UNESCO, said on his term that this support indicates Japan&rsquo;s commitment towards sustainable development in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Japan is among the leading donor countries in Afghanistan that has contributed some $ 5.7 billion towards the reconstruction drive here so far.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW) \u2013 The Embassy of Japan on Wednesday pledged to grant $ 3.8 million for restoring and preserving heritage sites in Bamyan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":94260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-94259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}