{"id":33209,"date":"2021-06-17T20:27:46","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T11:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/17\/japan-eases-tokyos-covid-restrictions-as-it-prepares-for-olympics"},"modified":"2021-06-17T20:27:46","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T11:27:46","slug":"japan-eases-tokyos-covid-restrictions-as-it-prepares-for-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=33209","title":{"rendered":"Japan eases Tokyo\u2019s Covid restrictions as it prepares for Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Relaxed measures in capital and several other regions will focus on early closure of bars and restaurants<\/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 is to ease coronavirus emergency measures in Tokyo from Sunday, just over a month before the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/olympic-games-2020\">Olympic Games<\/a> are due to open.<\/p>\n<p>The capital, along with Osaka and eight other regions, is currently subject to restrictions aimed at reining in Japan\u2019s fourth wave of cases, driven by more contagious variants.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/17\/japan-eases-tokyos-covid-restrictions-as-it-prepares-for-olympics\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relaxed measures in capital and several other regions will focus on early closure of bars and restaurantsCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageJapan is to ease coronavirus emergency measures in Tokyo from Sunday, just over a month&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":344,"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":[41,1066,88,342,203,882,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-japan","category-olympic-games","category-sport","category-tokyo-olympic-games-2020","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33209","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\/344"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33210,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33209\/revisions\/33210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}