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Jun 12
The #FIFAWorldCup 2026 kicked off on 11th June with a record 48 teams participating! Scotland qualified for the first time in almost 30 years, and we’re so proud of them! Scotland and Japan kick off on 14th June. Good luck to the Japan team and the UK teams Scotland and England!
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Jun 11
The FIFA World Cup starts soon! Scotland qualified for the first time in almost 30 years and Japan qualified too! So, for ManaMoku (Manabi Mokuyoubi / Learning Thursday), let’s learn some World Cup related sentences!
#ManabiMokuyoubi #ManaMoku
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📰On Wednesday, 3rd June, Consul General Katsutoshi Takeda visited the Port of Nigg in Tain, the Scottish Highlands.
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📰On Thursday 4 June, Consul General Katsutoshi Takeda attended the Pump it Up! Challenge Final 2026 held in Livingston, hosted by West Lothian Chamber of Commerce & Mitsubishi Electric Airconditioning Systems Europe.
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📰On Thursday 4th June, Cultural Consul Masataka Abe attended the launch event of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2026.
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📰On Wednesday 3rd June, Cultural Consul Masataka Abe attended the 40th anniversary event of Culture & Business Scotland.
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📰On Wednesday, 3rd June, Consul General Katsutoshi Takeda visited the newly established office of Sumitomo Electric in Alness.
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📰On Wednesday 3rd June, Consul General Katsutoshi Takeda made a courtesy call on Cllr Bill Lobban, Convener of Highland Council in Inverness.
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📰On Tuesday 2nd June, Consul General Katsutoshi Takeda made a courtesy call on Dr Stuart Black, Chief Executive of Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) in Inveness.
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📰On Thursday, 28th May, Consul General Katsutoshi Takeda paid a courtesy call on Cllr John McMillan, Provost of East Lothian.
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📰 On Sunday 31st May, Consul General Katsutoshi Takeda attended Japanese Car Show Scotland at Dundee Museum of Transport.
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📰 On Saturday 30th May, Cultural Consul Masataka Abe attended the Japan-Scotland summit between “Dalkeith Men’s Shed” and “Pokke Kotan”, a Men’s Shed in Sapporo, Japan.
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We've hopped into June! Both frogs and snails will enjoy the random showers that will likely occur this month. June is also a large part of tsuyu (rainy season) in Japan.
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📰 On Wednesday, 27th May, Consul General Katsutoshi Takeda attended the opening ceremony of Hitachi Energy's "UK Engineering Centre of Excellence" held in Glasgow.
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May 28
Want to learn some simple Japanese? Manabi means "learning" and Mokuyoubi means "Thursday", so this is a little Japanese lesson on a Thursday! Today we have some short conversation sentences that are quite relevant to the sunny weather we've been having recently!
#ManaMoku
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Japan In Scotland retweeted
May 27
Japan's cutest fish is just 1cm long
A tiny fish no bigger than a fingernail draws divers to Japan’s Hyogo coast each spring. The rare Cherry Blossom Lumpfish appears only briefly, and is under threat as the seaweed it depends on disappears.
For more: nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/v…
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May 26
📰 On Sunday 24th May, Consul General Katsutoshi Takeda attended the Scottish Bonsai National Exhibition, organised by the Scottish Bonsai Association and held in Broxburn near Edinburgh.
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May 22
The Consulate will be closed on Monday 25th May for a Spring Bank Holiday. We will reopen as usual on Tuesday 26th May.
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May 22
On Monday 18th May, Consul GeneralTakeda attended a commemorative event in Keith, combining the planting of cherry trees and the publication of a children's book "In the Footsteps of Isabella Gordon."
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May 22
On Thursday, 21st May, Consul General Katsutoshi Takeda visited Cllr Kenneth Duffy, Provost of North Lanarkshire.
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