{"id":49422,"date":"2022-10-18T14:49:38","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T05:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/18\/japans-oldest-toilet-damaged-as-driver-backed-up"},"modified":"2022-10-18T14:49:38","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T05:49:38","slug":"loo-rolled-japans-oldest-toilet-damaged-as-driver-backed-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=49422","title":{"rendered":"Loo rolled: Japan\u2019s oldest toilet damaged as driver backed up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Worker mistakenly accelerated while the car was in reverse, crashing into the building\u2019s roughly 500-year old wooden door<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a>\u2019s oldest existing toilet, dating back hundreds of years, has been damaged after it was accidentally rammed by a car driven by an employee of an organisation that preserves cultural relics.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old man, who works for the Kyoto Heritage Preservation Association, damaged the communal toilet, located inside Tofukuji temple in Kyoto, after he mistakenly accelerated while the vehicle was in reverse, crashing into the building\u2019s wooden door, according to media reports.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/18\/japans-oldest-toilet-damaged-as-driver-backed-up\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Worker mistakenly accelerated while the car was in reverse, crashing into the building\u2019s roughly 500-year old wooden doorJapan\u2019s oldest existing toilet, dating back hundreds of years, has been damaged after it was accidentally rammed by a car driven by&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49422","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=49422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49423,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49422\/revisions\/49423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}