{"id":18723,"date":"2020-05-27T12:02:14","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T03:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/27\/japan-launches-remote-cheering-app-to-boost-atmosphere-in-empty-stadiums"},"modified":"2020-05-27T12:02:14","modified_gmt":"2020-05-27T03:02:14","slug":"japan-launches-remote-cheering-app-to-boost-atmosphere-in-empty-stadiums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=18723","title":{"rendered":"Japan launches remote cheering app to boost atmosphere in empty stadiums"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>System allows fans following a match on TV, the radio or online to encourage \u2013 or berate \u2013 players via their smartphones<\/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>When Japan\u2019s coronavirus-hit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\">football<\/a> league finally resumes in a few weeks\u2019 time, it will be in stadiums devoid of supporters. But a new smartphone app could mean the action won\u2019t unfold in atmosphere-sapping silence.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VHkC-iAVr20&amp;feature=youtu.be\">Remote Cheerer<\/a> system developed by the Japanese firm Yamaha allows fans following the match on TV, the radio or online to encourage \u2013 or berate \u2013 players via their smartphones, their voices reverberating around the stadium in realtime via loudspeakers.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/27\/japan-launches-remote-cheering-app-to-boost-atmosphere-in-empty-stadiums\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>System allows fans following a match on TV, the radio or online to encourage \u2013 or berate \u2013 players via their smartphonesCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageWhen Japan\u2019s coronavirus-hit football league finally resumes in a few we&#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":[41,88,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18723","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=18723"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18748,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18723\/revisions\/18748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}