{"id":21842,"date":"2020-08-19T13:42:20","date_gmt":"2020-08-19T04:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/19\/road-sleeping-epidemic-hits-okinawa-as-warm-weather-meets-heavy-drinking"},"modified":"2020-08-19T13:42:20","modified_gmt":"2020-08-19T04:42:20","slug":"road-sleeping-epidemic-hits-okinawa-as-warm-weather-meets-heavy-drinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21842","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Road sleeping&#8217; epidemic hits Okinawa as warm weather meets heavy drinking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police in southern Japan reported more than 7,000 cases of \u2018rojo-ne\u2019 last year<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a> is largely tolerant of salarymen snoozing on trains after an evening out, but authorities on the southern island of Okinawa are taking a dim view of a worrying new trend in alcohol-fuelled somnolence.<\/p>\n<p>Local police reported more than 7,000 cases of <em>rojo-ne<\/em> \u2013 literally sleeping on the road \u2013 last year, a phenomenon some attribute to Okinawa\u2019s balmy weather and enthusiastic consumption of a fiery spirit that has been made on the island for hundreds of years.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/19\/road-sleeping-epidemic-hits-okinawa-as-warm-weather-meets-heavy-drinking\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police in southern Japan reported more than 7,000 cases of \u2018rojo-ne\u2019 last yearJapan is largely tolerant of salarymen snoozing on trains after an evening out, but authorities on the southern island of Okinawa are taking a dim view of a worrying new tren&#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-21842","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\/21842","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=21842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21843,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21842\/revisions\/21843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}