{"id":50506,"date":"2022-11-24T12:30:46","date_gmt":"2022-11-24T03:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/24\/japan-vs-germany-world-cup-2022-victory-calls-for-public-holidy-miracle-of-doha"},"modified":"2022-11-24T12:30:46","modified_gmt":"2022-11-24T03:30:46","slug":"miracle-of-doha-calls-for-public-holiday-as-japans-samurai-blue-put-germany-to-sword","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=50506","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Miracle of Doha\u2019: calls for public holiday as Japan\u2019s Samurai Blue put Germany to sword"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victory in World Cup opener sparks street celebrations and banishes painful memories in Doha of failure to qualify for USA 1994<\/p>\n<p>Japan\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2022\/nov\/23\/germany-japan-world-cup-group-e-match-report\">shock victory<\/a> over Germany in Qatar on Wednesday sparked <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/video\/2022\/nov\/23\/japans-fans-celebrate-stunning-comeback-after-securing-first-victory-against-germany-video\">late-night celebrations<\/a> and calls to mark the Samurai Blue\u2019s momentous feat in their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/world-cup-2022\">2022 World Cup<\/a> opener with a public holiday.<\/p>\n<p>The clock was nearing midnight when Takuma Asano rifled Japan\u2019s winner into the roof of the net at Khalifa International Stadium in Doha \u2013 a result that had seemed impossible after a poor first half from Japan, playing in their seventh straight World Cup.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/24\/japan-vs-germany-world-cup-2022-victory-calls-for-public-holidy-miracle-of-doha\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victory in World Cup opener sparks street celebrations and banishes painful memories in Doha of failure to qualify for USA 1994Japan\u2019s shock victory over Germany in Qatar on Wednesday sparked late-night celebrations and calls to mark the Samurai Blue\u2019s&#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":[41,627,533,88,203,2430,2429],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-football","category-germany","category-japan","category-sport","category-world-cup","category-world-cup-2022"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50506","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=50506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50507,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50506\/revisions\/50507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}