{"id":47684,"date":"2022-08-20T11:00:27","date_gmt":"2022-08-20T02:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/20\/the-sento-owners-making-group-bathing-in-japan-cool-again"},"modified":"2022-08-20T11:00:27","modified_gmt":"2022-08-20T02:00:27","slug":"the-sento-owners-making-group-bathing-in-japan-cool-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47684","title":{"rendered":"The sento owners making group bathing in Japan cool again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Covid accelerated a decline but a new breed of bathhouse is reimagining a Japanese tradition<\/p>\n<p>It is a Japanese ritual that stretches back centuries: stripping off in the company of friends and neighbours before stretching out in the recuperative waters of a public bathhouse.<\/p>\n<p>But almost half a millennia after the first <em>sento<\/em> opened in Tokyo, Japan\u2019s modern-day bathhouses face an existential threat \u2013 and are fighting back by redefining the meaning of communal bathing.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/20\/the-sento-owners-making-group-bathing-in-japan-cool-again\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Covid accelerated a decline but a new breed of bathhouse is reimagining a Japanese traditionIt is a Japanese ritual that stretches back centuries: stripping off in the company of friends and neighbours before stretching out in the recuperative waters o&#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":[41,6,408,88,78,1088,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-business","category-health-wellbeing","category-japan","category-life-and-style","category-travel-leisure","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\/47684","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=47684"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47714,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47684\/revisions\/47714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}