{"id":39133,"date":"2021-11-22T16:44:31","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T07:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/22\/lesson-number-two-japan-enlists-prof-poo-to-teach-children-about-paying-taxes"},"modified":"2021-11-22T16:44:31","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T07:44:31","slug":"lesson-number-two-japan-enlists-prof-poo-to-teach-children-about-paying-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39133","title":{"rendered":"Lesson number two: Japan enlists Prof Poo to teach children about paying taxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ad campaign featuring Unko-sensei \u2013 aka Professor Poo \u2013 aims to help students appreciate the importance of the nation\u2019s treasury<\/p>\n<p>Japan\u2019s government is hoping that children\u2019s fascination with bodily functions will help them appreciate the importance of paying taxes when they reach adulthood.<\/p>\n<p>Years after he fuelled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2017\/jun\/05\/japanese-children-unko-kanji-doriru-professor-poo\">huge sales of school textbooks<\/a>, Unko-sensei [Professor Poo] has been enlisted by the finance ministry\u2019s tax agency to appear in a brochure as part of a campaign to engender an appreciation of the role of the treasury among the nation\u2019s youngest citizens.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/22\/lesson-number-two-japan-enlists-prof-poo-to-teach-children-about-paying-taxes\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ad campaign featuring Unko-sensei \u2013 aka Professor Poo \u2013 aims to help students appreciate the importance of the nation\u2019s treasuryJapan\u2019s government is hoping that children\u2019s fascination with bodily functions will help them appreciate the importance of p&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":818,"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":[41,88,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","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\/39133","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\/818"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39133"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39151,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39133\/revisions\/39151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}