{"id":33429,"date":"2021-06-24T20:02:02","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T11:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/24\/japan-emperor-voices-concern-covid-spread-during-olympics"},"modified":"2021-06-24T20:02:02","modified_gmt":"2021-06-24T11:02:02","slug":"japans-emperor-voices-concern-about-covid-spread-during-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=33429","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s emperor voices concern about Covid spread during Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Naruhito said to be \u2018extremely worried\u2019 and shares widespread public unease over the Games<\/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\u2019s emperor has voiced concern over the possible spread of coronavirus during the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/olympic-games-2020\">Tokyo 2020 Olympics<\/a>, in an unexpected intervention in the debate over holding the Games in the middle of a pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Naruhito, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/apr\/26\/japan-emperor-naruhito-new-era-reiwa-beautiful-harmony\">ascended<\/a> the Chrysanthemum throne in 2019 after his father, Akihito, abdicated, said he shared widespread public concern about the Games, which open in a month\u2019s time.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/24\/japan-emperor-voices-concern-covid-spread-during-olympics\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Naruhito said to be \u2018extremely worried\u2019 and shares widespread public unease over the GamesCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageJapan\u2019s emperor has voiced concern over the possible spread of coronavirus during the Tokyo 2020 Olymp&#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":[41,1066,88,342,882,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-japan","category-olympic-games","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\/33429","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=33429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33430,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33429\/revisions\/33430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}