{"id":40482,"date":"2022-01-10T09:01:35","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T00:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/10\/im-more-worried-than-excited-about-the-future-japans-coming-of-age-day-tinged-with-anxiety"},"modified":"2022-01-10T09:01:35","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T00:01:35","slug":"im-more-worried-than-excited-about-the-future-japans-coming-of-age-day-tinged-with-anxiety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40482","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I\u2019m more worried than excited about the future\u2019: Japan\u2019s Coming of Age Day tinged with anxiety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>20-year-olds contemplate an uncertain future shaped by the coronavirus pandemic and Japan\u2019s skewed demographics<\/p>\n<p>On the second Monday in January every year, Japan\u2019s 20-year-olds put on their best kimono and suits, brave the winter chill and congregate at event halls across the country to celebrate their official passage into adulthood.<\/p>\n<p>In happier times, Coming of Age Day is a time to reunite with old school friends from the same neighbourhood and take endless commemorative photos, knowing that a party invariably involving the legal consumption of alcohol will be just reward for sitting through dreary speeches by local dignitaries.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/10\/im-more-worried-than-excited-about-the-future-japans-coming-of-age-day-tinged-with-anxiety\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>20-year-olds contemplate an uncertain future shaped by the coronavirus pandemic and Japan\u2019s skewed demographicsOn the second Monday in January every year, Japan\u2019s 20-year-olds put on their best kimono and suits, brave the winter chill and congregate at&#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":[41,88,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","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\/40482","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=40482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40483,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40482\/revisions\/40483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}