{"id":51136,"date":"2022-12-14T16:14:05","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T07:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/14\/road-sleeping-deaths-soar-in-tokyo-as-socialising-returns-to-pre-covid-levels"},"modified":"2022-12-14T16:14:05","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T07:14:05","slug":"road-sleeping-deaths-soar-in-tokyo-as-socialising-returns-to-pre-covid-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=51136","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Road sleeping\u2019 deaths soar in Tokyo as socialising returns to pre-Covid levels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities concerned that death toll from people being hit by cars while sleeping on roads will increase further as end-of-year party season begins<\/p>\n<p>The end of Covid-19 restrictions on Japan\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/19\/tokyo-alcohol-ban-covid-lockdown-izakayas-shimbashi\">nighttime economy<\/a> has brought more people out on to the streets of Tokyo \u2013 but it could also be contributing to a spate of deaths among people who are struck by cars as they sleep on the road.<\/p>\n<p>The number of deaths among people who sleep where they drop on the capital\u2019s roads has nearly doubled from last year, from seven to 13, according to police.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/14\/road-sleeping-deaths-soar-in-tokyo-as-socialising-returns-to-pre-covid-levels\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities concerned that death toll from people being hit by cars while sleeping on roads will increase further as end-of-year party season beginsThe end of Covid-19 restrictions on Japan\u2019s nighttime economy has brought more people out on to the stre&#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":[969,41,88,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alcohol","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51136","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=51136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51137,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51136\/revisions\/51137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}