{"id":23295,"date":"2020-09-30T12:42:32","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T03:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/30\/japan-airlines-scraps-ladies-and-gentlemen-in-favour-of-gender-neutral-greetings"},"modified":"2020-09-30T12:42:32","modified_gmt":"2020-09-30T03:42:32","slug":"japan-airlines-scraps-ladies-and-gentlemen-in-favour-of-gender-neutral-greetings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=23295","title":{"rendered":"Japan Airlines scraps &#8216;ladies and gentlemen&#8217; in favour of gender-neutral greetings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Airline becomes first in Japan to make move as part of commitment to tackle gender-based discrimination<\/p>\n<p>Japan Airlines is replacing \u201cladies and gentlemen\u201d in its in-flight and airport announcements with gender-neutral expressions, beginning in October.<\/p>\n<p>The formerly state-owned airline will use phrases such as \u201call passengers\u201d, \u201cgood morning\u201d and \u201cgood evening\u201d in its English announcements. The standard term used in Japanese \u201c<em>minna-sama<\/em>\u201d \u2013 an honorific form of \u201ceverybody\u201d \u2013 is already gender neutral.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/30\/japan-airlines-scraps-ladies-and-gentlemen-in-favour-of-gender-neutral-greetings\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Airline becomes first in Japan to make move as part of commitment to tackle gender-based discriminationJapan Airlines is replacing \u201cladies and gentlemen\u201d in its in-flight and airport announcements with gender-neutral expressions, beginning in October.T&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":255,"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":[665,88,281],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airline-industry","category-japan","category-women"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23295","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\/255"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23296,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23295\/revisions\/23296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}