{"id":39378,"date":"2021-12-01T10:24:04","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T01:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/01\/utter-torment-japans-party-season-loses-lustre-as-workers-dread-drinking-with-the-boss"},"modified":"2021-12-01T10:24:04","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T01:24:04","slug":"utter-torment-japans-party-season-loses-lustre-as-workers-dread-drinking-with-the-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39378","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Utter torment\u2019: Japan\u2019s party season loses lustre as workers dread drinking with the boss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bonenkai &#8211; or end of year &#8211; party season kicks off in December with some reluctant to join the workplace tradition<\/p>\n<p>Not everyone in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a> is looking forward to observing the time-honoured tradition of drinking, eating, and drinking some more with groups of colleagues, even as the country begins to rediscover its gregarious side after 18 months of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">coronavirus<\/a> pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>December usually marks the start of the <em>bonenkai<\/em> (forget-the-year) party season, when men and women who spend hours together in the workplace get together for an evening of <em>nomunication<\/em>, a portmanteau of the Japanese verb to drink [nomu] and communication.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/01\/utter-torment-japans-party-season-loses-lustre-as-workers-dread-drinking-with-the-boss\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bonenkai &#8211; or end of year &#8211; party season kicks off in December with some reluctant to join the workplace traditionNot everyone in Japan is looking forward to observing the time-honoured tradition of drinking, eating, and drinking some more with groups &#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-japan"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39378","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=39378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39379,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39378\/revisions\/39379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}