{"id":56254,"date":"2023-06-27T14:20:10","date_gmt":"2023-06-27T05:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/27\/japan-approves-trial-sales-of-over-the-counter-emergency-contraceptives"},"modified":"2023-06-27T14:20:10","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T05:20:10","slug":"japan-approves-trial-sales-of-over-the-counter-emergency-contraceptives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=56254","title":{"rendered":"Japan approves trial sales of over-the-counter emergency contraceptives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The move is a major policy shift in country\u2019s male-dominated parliament and brings Japan into line with more than 90 other countries<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a> is to permit the sale of emergency contraceptives without prescription on a trial basis, weeks after it approved the abortion pill.<\/p>\n<p>The move, reported by media on Tuesday, will bring Japan into line with dozens of other countries where the morning-after pill is already available over the counter.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/27\/japan-approves-trial-sales-of-over-the-counter-emergency-contraceptives\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The move is a major policy shift in country\u2019s male-dominated parliament and brings Japan into line with more than 90 other countriesJapan is to permit the sale of emergency contraceptives without prescription on a trial basis, weeks after it approved t&#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":[41,88,1539,79,281,1792,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-reproductive-rights","category-society","category-women","category-womens-health","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\/56254","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=56254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56255,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56254\/revisions\/56255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}