{"id":30313,"date":"2021-03-29T12:30:02","date_gmt":"2021-03-29T03:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/29\/i-cant-go-on-women-in-japan-suffer-isolation-and-despair-amid-covid-job-losses"},"modified":"2021-03-29T12:30:02","modified_gmt":"2021-03-29T03:30:02","slug":"i-cant-go-on-women-in-japan-suffer-isolation-and-despair-amid-covid-job-losses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=30313","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I can&#8217;t go on&#8217;: women in Japan suffer isolation and despair amid Covid job losses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Suicide rates among Japanese women rose sharply during the pandemic, prompting calls for support for low-income households<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">coronavirus<\/a> had barely begun its surge across the globe when Ayako Sato was told that the nursery where she worked would temporarily close as part of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/22\/from-near-disaster-to-success-story-how-japan-has-tackled-coronavirus\">Japan\u2019s efforts<\/a> to curb the outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>The mother of two teenage daughters expected a few weeks of belt tightening, believing it wouldn\u2019t be long before she was working again.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/29\/i-cant-go-on-women-in-japan-suffer-isolation-and-despair-amid-covid-job-losses\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suicide rates among Japanese women rose sharply during the pandemic, prompting calls for support for low-income householdsThe coronavirus had barely begun its surge across the globe when Ayako Sato was told that the nursery where she worked would tempo&#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":[41,1066,914,88,299,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-infectious-diseases","category-japan","category-science","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\/30313","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=30313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30314,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30313\/revisions\/30314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}