{"id":14795,"date":"2020-02-21T14:00:44","date_gmt":"2020-02-21T05:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/21\/tokyo-olympics-dance-by-japans-indigenous-people-dropped-from-opening-ceremony"},"modified":"2020-02-21T14:00:44","modified_gmt":"2020-02-21T05:00:44","slug":"tokyo-olympics-dance-by-japans-indigenous-people-dropped-from-opening-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=14795","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo Olympics: dance by Japan\u2019s indigenous people dropped from opening ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Move raises questions about status of Ainu ethnic minority, whose cultural identity Japan is legally obliged to protect <\/p>\n<p>Japan\u2019s commitment to the rights of its indigenous people has been questioned after organisers of this summer\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/olympic-games-2020\">Tokyo Olympics<\/a> dropped a performance by members of the Ainu ethnic minority from the Games\u2019 opening ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the Ainu community, originally from Japan\u2019s northernmost island of Hokkaido, had been expecting to showcase their culture to the world in a dance at the Olympic stadium, but learned recently that the plans had been scrapped.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/21\/tokyo-olympics-dance-by-japans-indigenous-people-dropped-from-opening-ceremony\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Move raises questions about status of Ainu ethnic minority, whose cultural identity Japan is legally obliged to protect Japan\u2019s commitment to the rights of its indigenous people has been questioned after organisers of this summer\u2019s Tokyo Olympics dropp&#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":[41,503,88,342,882,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-indigenous-peoples","category-japan","category-olympic-games","category-tokyo-olympic-games-2020","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\/14795","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=14795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14796,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14795\/revisions\/14796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}