{"id":2271,"date":"2026-01-26T02:23:41","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T02:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/?p=2271"},"modified":"2026-01-26T02:25:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T02:25:28","slug":"the-26th-noda-token-icho-january-26-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/2026\/01\/26\/the-26th-noda-token-icho-january-26-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"The 26th Noda Token Ichi January 26, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_5287.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2266\" src=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_5287-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_5287-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_5287.jpeg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_5296.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2270\" src=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_5296-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_5296-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_5296.jpeg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_5283-1.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2265\" src=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_5283-1-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_5283-1-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_5283-1.jpeg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_5290.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2268\" src=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_5290-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_5290-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_5290.jpeg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_5293.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2269\" src=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_5293-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_5293-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_5293.jpeg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_5289.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2267\" src=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_5289-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_5289-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_5289.jpeg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"47\" data-end=\"172\">The 26th Noda Token Ichi was held for three days starting on Friday, January 23, as usual at Business Hotel Noda.<br \/>\nJanuary 24, during the event, marked a very special occasion: it was the 90th birthday (Sotsuju) of my father and company founder, Tomio Matsumoto. He stayed active and energetically engaged in business throughout all three days of the fair.<br \/>\nFor this event, we made a strong effort in promotion. Announcements were placed in the community-based free paper <strong data-start=\"539\" data-end=\"559\">\u201c<\/strong>Chiiki Shimbun<strong data-start=\"539\" data-end=\"559\">\u201d<\/strong> across 17 local areas, as well as on Facebook. In addition, station posters were displayed at six stations within Noda City on the Tobu Noda Line, and at three major nearby stations.<br \/>\nThanks to these efforts, the fair was lively and bustling, welcoming both long-time regular customers and many new visitors. It was a very busy and successful three-day event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 26th Noda Token Ichi was held for three days starting on Friday, January 23, as usual at Business Hotel Noda. January 24, during the event, marked a very special occasion: it was the 90th birthday (Sotsuju) of my father and company founder, Tomio Matsumoto. He stayed active and energetically engaged in business throughout all &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/2026\/01\/26\/the-26th-noda-token-icho-january-26-2026\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The 26th Noda Token Ichi January 26, 2026<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2271"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2271"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2275,"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2271\/revisions\/2275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}