{"id":25294,"date":"2020-12-02T13:11:06","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T04:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/02\/japans-covid-safe-catchcry-sanmitsu-named-buzzword-of-2020"},"modified":"2020-12-02T13:11:06","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T04:11:06","slug":"japan-names-covid-safe-catchcry-sanmitsu-buzzword-of-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=25294","title":{"rendered":"Japan names Covid-safe catchcry &#8216;sanmitsu&#8217; buzzword of 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Sanmitsu<\/em> is known in English as the three Cs \u2013 confined spaces, crowded places and close-contact settings \u2013 situations the public are asked to avoid<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Japan\u2019s approach to tackling the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">coronavirus pandemic<\/a> has become the country\u2019s buzzword for 2020. <em>Sanmitsu<\/em> \u2013 known in English as the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mhlw.go.jp\/content\/3CS.pdf\">three Cs<\/a>\u201d \u2013 was one of several words and phrases inspired by the virus to have made it onto this year\u2019s shortlist.<\/p>\n<p>Popularised by the Tokyo governor, Yuriko Koike, <em>sanmitsu<\/em> refers to three situations the government has encouraged people to avoid to prevent the transmission of Covid-19: confined spaces, crowded places and close-contact settings.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/02\/japans-covid-safe-catchcry-sanmitsu-named-buzzword-of-2020\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sanmitsu is known in English as the three Cs \u2013 confined spaces, crowded places and close-contact settings \u2013 situations the public are asked to avoidCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageJapan\u2019s approach to tackling the coronavirus&#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":[41,1066,914,88,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-infectious-diseases","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\/25294","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=25294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25295,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25294\/revisions\/25295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}