{"id":34859,"date":"2021-08-06T20:00:47","date_gmt":"2021-08-06T11:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/06\/japan-shrugs-at-name-and-shame-policy-amid-covid-fatigue-and-changing-norms"},"modified":"2021-08-06T20:00:47","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T11:00:47","slug":"japan-shrugs-at-name-and-shame-policy-amid-covid-fatigue-and-changing-norms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=34859","title":{"rendered":"Japan shrugs at name-and-shame policy amid Covid fatigue and changing norms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Social pressure and group mores have become less powerful as people become tired of staying home<\/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>The Japanese government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/04\/japan-names-and-shames-citizens-for-breaching-covid-quarantine-rules\"> has named three people<\/a> this week who broke quarantine rules after returning from overseas in an attempt to shame others into complying with anti-virus measures. <\/p>\n<p>The authorities are hoping to tap into traits, such as the sense of collective and the importance of not breaking social norms, that Japan is known for.<\/p>\n<p>However, fatigue from prolonged states of emergency and ire at quarantine exceptions made for Olympic athletes may mean the \u201cname and shame\u201d policy has limited effect, or will even backfire.<\/p>\n<p>The names \u2013 but no other details \u2013 of the three rule-breakers who are reported to have avoided contact with authorities during their 14-day mandatory quarantine were announced on Monday. Some social media users attempted to identify the trio but there was little public outcry.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/06\/japan-shrugs-at-name-and-shame-policy-amid-covid-fatigue-and-changing-norms\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social pressure and group mores have become less powerful as people become tired of staying homeSee all our coronavirus coverageThe Japanese government  has named three people this week who broke quarantine rules after returning from overseas in an att&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":255,"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-34859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-infectious-diseases","category-japan","category-science","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\/34859","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\/255"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34860,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34859\/revisions\/34860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}