{"id":24582,"date":"2020-11-09T18:50:29","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T09:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/09\/japan-jo-baiden-becomes-overnight-internet-sensation-joe-biden"},"modified":"2020-11-09T18:50:29","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T09:50:29","slug":"japans-jo-baiden-becomes-overnight-internet-sensation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=24582","title":{"rendered":"Japan’s ‘Jo Baiden’ becomes overnight internet sensation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Town mayor, 73, whose name can be pronounced similarly to president-elect, was trending on social media<\/p>\n

Joe Biden\u2019s election victory has brought an improbable moment of celebrity to a local politician in Japan.<\/p>\n

Yutaka Umeda, 73, the mayor of Yamato, a small town in the south-west of the country, has become an overnight internet sensation after it was noticed that the kanji characters used to write his name can also be pronounced \u201cJo Baiden\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Town mayor, 73, whose name can be pronounced similarly to president-elect, was trending on social mediaJoe Biden\u2019s election victory has brought an improbable moment of celebrity to a local politician in Japan.Yutaka Umeda, 73, the mayor of Yamato, a sm…<\/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":[41,88,939,42,1678],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-joe-biden","category-world-news","category-yoshihide-suga"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24582","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=24582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24583,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24582\/revisions\/24583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}