{"id":29141,"date":"2021-03-02T12:16:46","date_gmt":"2021-03-02T03:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/02\/stop-doing-anal-covid-tests-on-our-citizens-japan-tells-china"},"modified":"2021-03-02T12:16:46","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T03:16:46","slug":"stop-doing-anal-covid-tests-on-our-citizens-japan-tells-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=29141","title":{"rendered":"Stop doing anal Covid tests on our citizens, Japan tells China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anal swabs cause \u2018great psychological pain\u2019, says Japan\u2019s chief cabinet secretary<\/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>Tokyo has requested Beijing to stop taking anal swab tests for Covid-19 on Japanese citizens because the procedure causes psychological pain, a government spokesperson has said.<\/p>\n<p>Japan\u2019s chief cabinet secretary, Katsunobu Kato, said the government had not received a response that Beijing would change the testing procedure, so Japan would continue to ask China to alter the way of testing.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/02\/stop-doing-anal-covid-tests-on-our-citizens-japan-tells-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anal swabs cause \u2018great psychological pain\u2019, says Japan\u2019s chief cabinet secretaryCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageTokyo has requested Beijing to stop taking anal swab tests for Covid-19 on Japanese citizens because the proced&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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":[41,50,1066,914,88,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","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\/29141","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29141"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29145,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29141\/revisions\/29145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}