{"id":59911,"date":"2023-11-17T20:03:17","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T11:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/nov\/17\/japan-kabuki-actor-ennosuke-ichikawa-suspended-jail-parents-suicide"},"modified":"2023-11-17T20:03:17","modified_gmt":"2023-11-17T11:03:17","slug":"japanese-kabuki-actor-gets-suspended-sentence-for-assisting-parents-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=59911","title":{"rendered":"Japanese kabuki actor gets suspended sentence for assisting parents\u2019 suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ennosuke Ichikawa was part of apparent family pact to take their own lives after he learned he was to be accused of sexual abuse<\/p>\n<p>One of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a>\u2019s best-known kabuki actors has been given a suspended prison sentence for helping his parents die in an apparent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/26\/japanese-kabuki-actor-ennosuke-ichikawa-found-collapsed-at-home-alongside-parents\">suicide pact<\/a> that sent shockwaves through the world of Japanese traditional theatre.<\/p>\n<p>Ennosuke Ichikawa, a fourth-generation member of a leading kabuki family, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/27\/japanese-kabuki-actor-arrested-suspicion-assisting-mother-suicide-ennosuke-ichikawa\">arrested<\/a> in June after his mother and father were found dead at the family\u2019s home in Tokyo the previous month.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/nov\/17\/japan-kabuki-actor-ennosuke-ichikawa-suspended-jail-parents-suicide\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ennosuke Ichikawa was part of apparent family pact to take their own lives after he learned he was to be accused of sexual abuseOne of Japan\u2019s best-known kabuki actors has been given a suspended prison sentence for helping his parents die in an apparen&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":818,"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":[88,878,877,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-stage","category-theatre","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\/59911","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\/818"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59912,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59911\/revisions\/59912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}