{"id":31763,"date":"2021-05-05T16:59:54","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T07:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/05\/japanese-town-spends-covid-funds-on-huge-squid-statue"},"modified":"2021-05-05T16:59:54","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T07:59:54","slug":"japanese-town-spends-covid-19-funds-on-huge-squid-statue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=31763","title":{"rendered":"Japanese town spends Covid-19 funds on huge squid statue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The town of Noto sought to boost tourism in the area where squid is a delicacy <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A coastal town in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a> is facing criticism after it spent emergency funds intended for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">coronavirus<\/a> measures on a giant statue of a squid to promote the local tourism industry.<\/p>\n<p>Noto, located in Ishikawa prefecture on the Japan Sea coast, spent \u00a525m (\u00a3164,000) on the 13-metre-long marine creature, according to the Chunichi Shimbun.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/05\/japanese-town-spends-covid-funds-on-huge-squid-statue\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The town of Noto sought to boost tourism in the area where squid is a delicacy See all our coronavirus coverageA coastal town in Japan is facing criticism after it spent emergency funds intended for coronavirus measures on a giant statue of a squid to &#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":[41,1066,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-japan"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31763","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=31763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31764,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31763\/revisions\/31764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}