{"id":45633,"date":"2022-06-21T18:51:24","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T09:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/21\/dont-swipe-write-japanese-city-encourages-daters-to-send-love-letters"},"modified":"2022-06-21T18:51:24","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T09:51:24","slug":"dont-swipe-write-japanese-city-encourages-daters-to-send-love-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=45633","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t swipe, write: Japanese city encourages daters to send love letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matchmaking initiative in Miyazaki has brought together 17 couples, as Japan battles falling birthrate<\/p>\n<p>Japan\u2019s faltering campaign to raise its birthrate has gone analogue, with authorities in a southwestern city encouraging potential suitors to put pen to paper and wait patiently for a reply rather than simply swiping right.<\/p>\n<p>The city of Miyazaki says hundreds of men and women have dabbled in old-fashioned letter writing since the matchmaking scheme was launched two years ago. While there have been no wedding bells, the programme has spawned 32 face-to-face meetings and brought together 17 couples.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/21\/dont-swipe-write-japanese-city-encourages-daters-to-send-love-letters\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matchmaking initiative in Miyazaki has brought together 17 couples, as Japan battles falling birthrateJapan\u2019s faltering campaign to raise its birthrate has gone analogue, with authorities in a southwestern city encouraging potential suitors to put pen &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":344,"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":[41,1788,88,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-dating","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\/45633","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\/344"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45633"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45662,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45633\/revisions\/45662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}