{"id":8502,"date":"2019-09-04T18:45:57","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T09:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/04\/south-korea-boycott-japanese-goods-beer-car-sales"},"modified":"2019-09-04T18:45:57","modified_gmt":"2019-09-04T09:45:57","slug":"south-korean-boycott-of-japanese-goods-hits-beer-and-carmakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=8502","title":{"rendered":"South Korean boycott of Japanese goods hits beer and carmakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Honda down 81% and beer sales fall 97% amid deepening spat over countries\u2019 wartime legacy<\/p>\n<p>Sales of Japanese beer and cars have plummeted in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/south-korea\">South Korea<\/a> amid a consumer boycott sparked by a deepening dispute over the countries\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/jul\/03\/battleship-island-a-symbol-of-japans-progress-or-reminder-of-its-dark-history\">wartime legacy<\/a> that has hit trade and security cooperation.<\/p>\n<p>Japanese automakers said on Wednesday sales fell 57% in August from a year earlier, while beer sales were almost wiped out the same month with a year-on-year decline of more than 97%, according to reports.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/04\/south-korea-boycott-japanese-goods-beer-car-sales\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Honda down 81% and beer sales fall 97% amid deepening spat over countries\u2019 wartime legacySales of Japanese beer and cars have plummeted in South Korea amid a consumer boycott sparked by a deepening dispute over the countries\u2019 wartime legacy that has hi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":344,"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":[41,6,88,222,700,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-business","category-japan","category-south-korea","category-toyota","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\/8502","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\/344"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8502"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8505,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8502\/revisions\/8505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}