{"id":58972,"date":"2023-10-05T15:03:01","date_gmt":"2023-10-05T06:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/05\/stay-away-for-fear-of-a-halloween-crowd-crush-disaster-urges-mayor-of-tokyo-nightlife-district"},"modified":"2023-10-05T17:21:29","modified_gmt":"2023-10-05T08:21:29","slug":"stay-away-for-fear-of-a-halloween-crowd-crush-disaster-urges-mayor-of-tokyo-nightlife-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=58972","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo district mayor urges Halloween revellers to stay away amid crush fears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ken Hasebe issues warning after 2022 Itaewon tragedy in Seoul, in which more than 150 people died<\/p>\n<p>Authorities in one of Tokyo\u2019s liveliest neighbourhoods are pleading with revellers to stay away during <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/halloween\">Halloween<\/a>, fearing a repeat of last year\u2019s deadly crowd crush in the Itaewon district of Seoul.<\/p>\n<p>Ken Hasebe, the mayor of Shibuya \u2013 a popular destination for young Japanese and foreign tourists \u2013 said partygoers hoping to mark the celebration in the area on and around 31 October would be disappointed.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/05\/stay-away-for-fear-of-a-halloween-crowd-crush-disaster-urges-mayor-of-tokyo-nightlife-district\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ken Hasebe issues warning after 2022 Itaewon tragedy in Seoul, in which more than 150 people diedAuthorities in one of Tokyo\u2019s liveliest neighbourhoods are pleading with revellers to stay away during Halloween, fearing a repeat of last year\u2019s deadly cr&#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":[41,88,2798,222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-seoul-crowd-crush","category-south-korea"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58972","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=58972"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58994,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58972\/revisions\/58994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}