{"id":16674,"date":"2020-03-31T13:27:09","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T04:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/31\/karaoke-shutdown-in-tokyo-amid-calls-for-covid-19-state-of-emergency-in-japan"},"modified":"2020-03-31T13:27:09","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T04:27:09","slug":"karaoke-warning-in-tokyo-amid-calls-for-covid-19-state-of-emergency-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=16674","title":{"rendered":"Karaoke warning in Tokyo amid calls for Covid-19 state of emergency in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Capital\u2019s population told to avoid bars and restaurants for two weeks as coronavirus cases rise<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Weeks after urging them to forgo cherry blossom parties, the governor of Tokyo has told residents to ditch another national pastime \u2013 karaoke \u2013 as calls grow for Japan to take tougher measures to stem a rise in the number of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">Covid-19<\/a> cases.<\/p>\n<p>Yuriko Koike said Tokyo\u2019s 14 million people should avoid visits to bars and restaurants, and put karaoke sessions on hold until 12 April, while a senior medical official called on the government to declare a state of emergency before it is \u201ctoo late\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/31\/karaoke-shutdown-in-tokyo-amid-calls-for-covid-19-state-of-emergency-in-japan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Capital\u2019s population told to avoid bars and restaurants for two weeks as coronavirus cases riseCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageWeeks after urging them to forgo cherry blossom parties, the governor of Tokyo has told residents&#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":[41,1069,914,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-infectious-diseases","category-japan"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16674","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=16674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16675,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16674\/revisions\/16675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}