{"id":24059,"date":"2020-10-22T12:00:14","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T03:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/22\/a-revolution-is-sweeping-through-japans-takarazuka-music-school"},"modified":"2020-10-22T12:00:14","modified_gmt":"2020-10-22T03:00:14","slug":"a-revolution-is-sweeping-through-japans-takarazuka-music-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=24059","title":{"rendered":"A revolution is sweeping through Japan&#8217;s Takarazuka Music School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This month the school scrapped several longstanding and unwritten rules that governed the behaviour of students for decades<\/p>\n<p>For more than a century the Takarazuka Music School has transformed thousands of young women from unpolished amateurs into accomplished singers, dancers and actors who perform to sell-out audiences with kitsch adaptations of everything from Japanese manga to classic western novels.<\/p>\n<p>But the school, based in the Japanese hot spring resort from which it takes its name, is not just in the business of nurturing talent.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/22\/a-revolution-is-sweeping-through-japans-takarazuka-music-school\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This month the school scrapped several longstanding and unwritten rules that governed the behaviour of students for decadesFor more than a century the Takarazuka Music School has transformed thousands of young women from unpolished amateurs into accomp&#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":[71,88,878,877,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-japan","category-stage","category-theatre","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\/24059","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=24059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24060,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24059\/revisions\/24060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}