{"id":61416,"date":"2024-01-25T12:35:16","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T03:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/25\/japan-naked-festival-hadaka-matsuri-women-allowed-inazawa-fertility-festival"},"modified":"2024-01-25T12:35:16","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T03:35:16","slug":"women-in-japan-allowed-to-take-part-in-naked-festival-for-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=61416","title":{"rendered":"Women in Japan allowed to take part in \u2018naked festival\u2019 for first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Women will take part in the <em>hadaka matsuri <\/em>in Inazawa, in which thousands of men dressed in next to nothing drive away evil spirits<\/p>\n<p>Women in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a> have been permitted to take part in an ancient ceremony, known as the naked festival, for the first time in the event\u2019s history, albeit with modifications.<\/p>\n<p>Every February, thousands of men dressed in next to nothing take part in the <em>hadaka matsuri<\/em> at a Shinto shrine in Inazawa, a town in central Japan, to drive away evil spirits over the coming year.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/25\/japan-naked-festival-hadaka-matsuri-women-allowed-inazawa-fertility-festival\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Women will take part in the hadaka matsuri in Inazawa, in which thousands of men dressed in next to nothing drive away evil spiritsWomen in Japan have been permitted to take part in an ancient ceremony, known as the naked festival, for the first time i&#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":[41,88,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","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\/61416","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=61416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61417,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61416\/revisions\/61417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}