{"id":40185,"date":"2021-12-29T19:06:06","date_gmt":"2021-12-29T10:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/29\/no-contact-required-covid-fuels-vending-machine-revival-in-japan"},"modified":"2021-12-29T19:06:06","modified_gmt":"2021-12-29T10:06:06","slug":"no-contact-required-covid-fuels-vending-machine-revival-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40185","title":{"rendered":"No contact required: Covid fuels vending machine revival in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After decades of decline, <em>jid\u014d<\/em> <em>hanbaiki<\/em> are back in fashion with public wary of human interaction<\/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>After a brief wait to the faint whirr of moving machinery parts, the tiny cardboard box that drops into the plastic-covered tray is reassuringly warm. Inside is a perfectly passable burger in a chewy white bun, topped with a blob of ketchup and diced fried onions.<\/p>\n<p>No human interaction occurred in the making of this transaction. The Guardian\u2019s alfresco lunch came courtesy of one of dozens of vending machines in Sagamihara, an unglamorous town near Tokyo.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/29\/no-contact-required-covid-fuels-vending-machine-revival-in-japan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After decades of decline, jid\u014d hanbaiki are back in fashion with public wary of human interactionCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageAfter a brief wait to the faint whirr of moving machinery parts, the tiny cardboard box that dr&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2761,"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":[41,6,311,88,335,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-business","category-food","category-japan","category-retail-industry","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40185","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\/2761"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40186,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40185\/revisions\/40186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}