{"id":51774,"date":"2023-01-10T19:31:36","date_gmt":"2023-01-10T10:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/gallery\/2023\/jan\/10\/japan-coming-of-age-day-in-pictures"},"modified":"2023-01-10T19:31:36","modified_gmt":"2023-01-10T10:31:36","slug":"japan-celebrates-coming-of-age-day-in-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=51774","title":{"rendered":"Japan celebrates Coming of Age Day \u2013 in pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japan\u2019s Coming of Age Day (<em>Seijin-shiki<\/em>) is a national holiday held in January to recognise young people who have been officially recognised as adults after turning 20. Many wear formal attire, traditional Japanese clothing or suits and ties to ceremonies and celebrations. Many young women wear traditional <em>furisode<\/em> kimonos, which have long sleeves and are worn by unmarried women, while young men may wear <em>hakama<\/em>, a style of traditional pleated trousers<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/gallery\/2023\/jan\/10\/japan-coming-of-age-day-in-pictures\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan\u2019s Coming of Age Day (Seijin-shiki) is a national holiday held in January to recognise young people who have been officially recognised as adults after turning 20. Many wear formal attire, traditional Japanese clothing or suits and ties to ceremon&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1060,"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":[41,678,88,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-festivals","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\/51774","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\/1060"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51775,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51774\/revisions\/51775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}