{"id":20903,"date":"2020-07-23T21:16:31","date_gmt":"2020-07-23T12:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/23\/tokyo-red-light-district-closed-coronavirus-bars-restaurants-kabukicho"},"modified":"2020-07-23T21:16:31","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T12:16:31","slug":"no-kissing-no-sharing-can-tokyos-hostess-bars-survive-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=20903","title":{"rendered":"No kissing, no sharing: can Tokyo&#8217;s hostess bars survive Covid-19?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kabukicho is far quieter than usual but is being accused of fuelling a coronavirus second wave<\/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>The arrival of dusk is normally the cue for Tokyo\u2019s biggest red-light district to spring to life. But in the middle of a pandemic, not even the neon lights could lift the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">coronavirus<\/a> cloud hanging over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/jun\/05\/tokyo-kabukicho-red-light-district-hawkers-olympics\">Kabukicho<\/a> this week.<\/p>\n<p>Doormen in masks and visors gestured to occasional passersby with promises of a \u201csensual massage\u201d, and clubs tempted thirsty office workers with all-you-can-drink deals for \u00a51,000 (\u00a37).<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/23\/tokyo-red-light-district-closed-coronavirus-bars-restaurants-kabukicho\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kabukicho is far quieter than usual but is being accused of fuelling a coronavirus second waveCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe arrival of dusk is normally the cue for Tokyo\u2019s biggest red-light district to spring to life. &#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":[41,1069,88,1331],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-japan","category-prostitution"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20903","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=20903"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20904,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20903\/revisions\/20904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}