{"id":32235,"date":"2021-05-19T09:00:12","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T00:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/19\/tokyo-alcohol-ban-covid-lockdown-izakayas-shimbashi"},"modified":"2021-05-19T09:00:12","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T00:00:12","slug":"tokyos-restaurateurs-rail-against-alcohol-ban-as-covid-measures-bite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=32235","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo\u2019s restaurateurs rail against alcohol ban as Covid measures bite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Owners of izakayas in the Shimbashi district of Japan\u2019s capital are facing an existential threat<\/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>A vivid rainbow heralds the arrival of dusk in Tokyo, but the fabled promise of a pot of gold must seem like a cruel joke to restaurateurs in Shimbashi, where office blocks stand in happy proximity to hundreds of watering holes.<\/p>\n<p>In pre-coronavirus days, nightfall would be the cue for the neighbourhood\u2019s neon lights to flicker into action and for touts armed with laminated menus to beckon office workers inside with promises of cheap food and drink.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/19\/tokyo-alcohol-ban-covid-lockdown-izakayas-shimbashi\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Owners of izakayas in the Shimbashi district of Japan\u2019s capital are facing an existential threatCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageA vivid rainbow heralds the arrival of dusk in Tokyo, but the fabled promise of a pot of gold mu&#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":[41,1066,88,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","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\/32235","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=32235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32236,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32235\/revisions\/32236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}