{"id":24314,"date":"2020-10-31T01:48:12","date_gmt":"2020-10-30T16:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/30\/japans-love-hotels-accused-of-anti-gay-discrimination"},"modified":"2020-10-31T01:48:12","modified_gmt":"2020-10-30T16:48:12","slug":"japans-love-hotels-accused-of-anti-gay-discrimination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=24314","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s &#8216;love hotels&#8217; accused of anti-gay discrimination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Same-sex couples say hotels make excuses to turn them away despite 2018 law change<\/p>\n<p>In May this year, at the height of the coronavirus\u2019s first wave, two gay men living together in Amagasaki, western Japan, thought they would ease the boredom of the country\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/07\/japan-shinzo-abe-declares-state-of-emergency-over-coronavirus\">soft lockdown<\/a> with a visit to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/gallery\/2007\/nov\/01\/tokyo.love.hotels\">love hotel<\/a>, where couples pay for short stays to have sex.<\/p>\n<p>But rather than the carefree time they had anticipated, the couple, in their mid-30s, did not even get as far as the door to their room.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/30\/japans-love-hotels-accused-of-anti-gay-discrimination\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Same-sex couples say hotels make excuses to turn them away despite 2018 law changeIn May this year, at the height of the coronavirus\u2019s first wave, two gay men living together in Amagasaki, western Japan, thought they would ease the boredom of the count&#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":[41,1475,88,72,78,1289,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-hotels","category-japan","category-lgbt-rights","category-life-and-style","category-sex","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\/24314","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=24314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24315,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24314\/revisions\/24315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}