{"id":10558,"date":"2021-01-19T23:00:17","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T23:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/asia\/east-asia\/article\/3118340\/coronavirus-pandemic-reveals-japans-hidden-poverty-women-hit"},"modified":"2021-01-19T23:00:17","modified_gmt":"2021-01-19T23:00:17","slug":"coronavirus-pandemic-reveals-japans-hidden-poverty-with-women-hit-especially-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/19\/coronavirus-pandemic-reveals-japans-hidden-poverty-with-women-hit-especially-hard\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus pandemic reveals Japan\u2019s hidden poverty, with women hit especially hard"},"content":{"rendered":"Yuichiro welled up as he collected a food parcel at a Tokyo outreach event offering help to the growing number of Japanese pushed into poverty by the coronavirus pandemic.\u201cThere is no work. Absolutely none,\u201d said the 46-year-old, until recently a construction worker, while clutching a small plastic bag of essentials on a cold winter street in the capital.\u201cThis doesn\u2019t get reported much in the media, but many people are sleeping at train stations and in cardboard boxes. Some are dying of hunger\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/asia\/east-asia\/article\/3118340\/coronavirus-pandemic-reveals-japans-hidden-poverty-women-hit\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yuichiro welled up as he collected a food parcel at a Tokyo outreach event offering help to the growing number of Japanese pushed into poverty by the coronavirus pandemic.\u201cThere is no work. Absolutely none,\u201d said the 46-year-old, until recently a const&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":742,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10558"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/742"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10559,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10558\/revisions\/10559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}