{"id":1443,"date":"2019-07-08T15:23:22","date_gmt":"2019-07-08T06:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jul\/08\/japan-tries-to-please-rugby-world-cup-fans-with-rethink-on-tattooed-bather-ban"},"modified":"2019-07-08T15:23:22","modified_gmt":"2019-07-08T06:23:22","slug":"japan-tries-to-please-rugby-world-cup-fans-with-rethink-on-tattooed-bather-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=1443","title":{"rendered":"Japan tries to please Rugby World Cup fans with rethink on tattooed bather ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With thousands of fans heading to Japan for the tournament, hot springs consider lifting traditional curbs on displaying body art <\/p>\n<p>Thousands of hot springs in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a> are rethinking their long-standing ban on tattooed bathers, as the country prepares for the arrival of an estimated 400,000 fans for this autumn\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/rugby-world-cup-2019\">Rugby World Cup<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Visitors are accustomed to warnings to cover up their body ink while they are in Japan, where tattoos are traditionally associated with membership of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/dec\/17\/going-straight-the-yakuza-gangster-who-swapped-the-underworld-for-udon\">yakuza<\/a><\/em> crime syndicates.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jul\/08\/japan-tries-to-please-rugby-world-cup-fans-with-rethink-on-tattooed-bather-ban\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With thousands of fans heading to Japan for the tournament, hot springs consider lifting traditional curbs on displaying body art Thousands of hot springs in Japan are rethinking their long-standing ban on tattooed bathers, as the country prepares for &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,88,202,203,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-rugby-world-cup-2019","category-sport","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1443"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1444,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443\/revisions\/1444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}