{"id":20659,"date":"2020-07-17T15:02:05","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T06:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/17\/japan-police-seek-to-stop-halloween-yakuza-handing-out-sweets-to-children"},"modified":"2020-07-17T15:02:05","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T06:02:05","slug":"japan-police-seek-to-stop-yakuza-handing-out-halloween-sweets-to-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=20659","title":{"rendered":"Japan police seek to stop yakuza handing out Halloween sweets to children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Concerns about a turf war in Kobe prompts police to seek legislation to halt traditional handout<\/p>\n<p>Police in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a> are planning to deprive children of their trick-or-treat goodies this Halloween \u2013 but only because the gifts come from members of the country\u2019s biggest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/organised-crime\">underworld organisation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Yamaguchi-gumi gang members, based in the western port city of Kobe, have been distributing sweets to local children at Halloween most years since 2013.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/17\/japan-police-seek-to-stop-halloween-yakuza-handing-out-sweets-to-children\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Concerns about a turf war in Kobe prompts police to seek legislation to halt traditional handoutPolice in Japan are planning to deprive children of their trick-or-treat goodies this Halloween \u2013 but only because the gifts come from members of the countr&#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":[41,1568,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-halloween","category-japan"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20659","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=20659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20660,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20659\/revisions\/20660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}