PPAP star Piko Taro to debut at U.N. to promote development goals

"Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen" star Piko Taro accepted a request Wednesday to attend a U.N.-related event in New York later this month to promote the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals, aimed at eradicating poverty and inequality.Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida asked Piko Taro in a meeting at the ministry to attend the reception to be hosted by Japan on the sidelines of the U.N. political forum on SDGs at the U.N. headquarters in mid-July, a ministry official said.Kishida and Piko Taro, whose catchy PPAP song became a viral hit last year, are expected to attend the reception together after the mi…READ FULL ARTICLE