{"id":2991,"date":"2020-03-23T17:01:16","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T08:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/tokyo\/?p=2991"},"modified":"2021-05-12T10:22:22","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T01:22:22","slug":"titlealumni-sakura-kokumai-informally-selected-to-represent-the-u-s-at-tokyo-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/tokyo\/news-en\/2020\/03\/23\/2991\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumni Sakura Kokumai Informally Selected to Represent the U.S. at Tokyo 2020!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Waseda Alumni Sakura Kokumai (graduated from the Graduate School of International Culture and Communication Studies in 2017) has been selected to represent the U.S. in the Karate Women\u2019s Kata competition at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.<\/p>\n<p>The World Karate Federation (WFK) announced the selected participants for Tokyo 2020 \u00a0on March 18, 2020, and Ms. Kokumai\u2019s name was on the list.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2986\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2986\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/tokyo\/assets\/uploads\/2021\/05\/2017081000008-610x593.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"391\" height=\"380\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sakura Kokumai, U.S. representative for Karate Women\u2019s Kata = Kyodo News<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Profile<\/p>\n<p>Sakura Kokumai<\/p>\n<p>Born 1992 in Hawaii, as her parents had moved there for work. Graduated from the Waseda Graduate School of International Culture and Communication Studies in 2017. She started karate at age seven, and perfected her skills while travelling between Japan and Hawaii. As her time spent in Hawaii was longer, she received a U.S. residency at age 14, and is currently active as the U.S. representative. She won the bronze medal at the World Karate Championships in 2012, and is currently ranked sixth in the world (as of May 6, 2021).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waseda Alumni Sakura Kokumai (graduated from the Graduate School of International Culture and Communication St [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2986,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[91,94,81,71,114],"class_list":["post-2991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","tag-alumni-en","tag-general-en","tag-global-en","tag-sports-en","tag-tokyo-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/tokyo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/tokyo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/tokyo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/tokyo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/tokyo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/tokyo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/tokyo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/tokyo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/tokyo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/tokyo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}