{"id":44011,"date":"2022-04-29T10:00:26","date_gmt":"2022-04-29T01:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/29\/slackers-barred-testing-tokyos-anti-procrastination-cafe"},"modified":"2022-04-29T10:00:26","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T01:00:26","slug":"slackers-barred-testing-tokyos-anti-procrastination-cafe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=44011","title":{"rendered":"Slackers barred: testing Tokyo\u2019s anti-procrastination cafe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Would the nagging, stiff chairs and coffee refills at the Manuscript Writing Cafe help Justin McCurry hit his deadline?<\/p>\n<p>Writers in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/cities\/2019\/jun\/10\/tokyo-big-year-is-the-impenetrable-city-finally-opening-up\">Tokyo<\/a> in search of an antidote to procrastination and unproductive work practices can now toil in the company of the similarly afflicted, united in their determination to confront the tyranny of the looming deadline.<\/p>\n<p>They can be found at the Manuscript Writing Cafe, which opened in April in the city\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/travel\/2017\/jan\/25\/tokyo-coolest-neighbourhood-koenji-art-hotel-music-vintage-clothes\">Koenji<\/a> neighbourhood as a haven for writers, editors, proofreaders, video producers and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/manga\">manga<\/a> artists \u2013 anyone struggling with the distractions of the home or office. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/29\/slackers-barred-testing-tokyos-anti-procrastination-cafe\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Would the nagging, stiff chairs and coffee refills at the Manuscript Writing Cafe help Justin McCurry hit his deadline?Writers in Tokyo in search of an antidote to procrastination and unproductive work practices can now toil in the company of the simil&#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":[41,88,79,1850,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-society","category-work-careers","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\/44011","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=44011"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44023,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44011\/revisions\/44023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}