{"id":54106,"date":"2023-04-06T14:10:18","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T05:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/06\/japan-declares-war-on-pollen-as-hay-fever-epidemic-grips-the-nation"},"modified":"2023-04-06T14:10:18","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T05:10:18","slug":"japan-declares-war-on-pollen-as-hay-fever-epidemic-grips-the-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=54106","title":{"rendered":"Japan declares war on pollen as hay fever epidemic grips the nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Calls for PM Fumio Kishida to eliminate \u2018national disease\u2019 as pollen from cedar and cypress trees makes life miserable for 40% of population<\/p>\n<p>Japan\u2019s prime minister, Fumio Kishida, has vowed to fight the scourge of hay fever, calling the pollen allergy a health issue that requires urgent government action.<\/p>\n<p>As pollen levels in Tokyo surged to their highest in a decade, Kishida told a parliamentary committee this week that hay fever had become a \u201csocial problem,\u201d adding that he would work with ministers to devise a response. \u201cWe want to get results,\u201d he said, according to local media.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/06\/japan-declares-war-on-pollen-as-hay-fever-epidemic-grips-the-nation\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calls for PM Fumio Kishida to eliminate \u2018national disease\u2019 as pollen from cedar and cypress trees makes life miserable for 40% of populationJapan\u2019s prime minister, Fumio Kishida, has vowed to fight the scourge of hay fever, calling the pollen allergy a&#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":[88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54106","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=54106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54107,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54106\/revisions\/54107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}