{"id":68060,"date":"2024-12-03T09:48:25","date_gmt":"2024-12-03T00:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/03\/harry-potter-sword-godric-gryffindor-recalled-japan"},"modified":"2024-12-03T09:48:25","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T00:48:25","slug":"replica-harry-potter-swords-recalled-in-japan-for-breaking-weapons-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=68060","title":{"rendered":"Replica Harry Potter swords recalled in Japan for breaking weapons law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police said 86cm stainless steel blade \u2013 mounted on a wooden plaque and sold in the hundreds \u2013 contravened Japan\u2019s firearms and sword control law<\/p>\n<p>Full-size replica swords sold as souvenirs at a popular Harry Potter exhibition in Tokyo have fallen foul of Japan\u2019s strict weapons control law and been recalled.<\/p>\n<p>The 86cm stainless steel blade, which comes mounted on a wooden plaque, is described on the Warner Bros website that promotes the event as an \u201cauthentic recreation of Godric Gryffindor\u2019s sword\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/03\/harry-potter-sword-godric-gryffindor-recalled-japan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police said 86cm stainless steel blade \u2013 mounted on a wooden plaque and sold in the hundreds \u2013 contravened Japan\u2019s firearms and sword control lawFull-size replica swords sold as souvenirs at a popular Harry Potter exhibition in Tokyo have fallen foul o&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":255,"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-68060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","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\/68060","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\/255"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68060"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68061,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68060\/revisions\/68061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}