{"id":9668,"date":"2021-01-18T10:12:21","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T10:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/week-asia\/lifestyle-culture\/article\/3118208\/fewer-moons-lunar-new-year-coronavirus-hits-japans"},"modified":"2021-01-18T10:12:21","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T10:12:21","slug":"fewer-moons-at-lunar-new-year-as-coronavirus-hits-japans-naked-man-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/18\/fewer-moons-at-lunar-new-year-as-coronavirus-hits-japans-naked-man-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Fewer moons at Lunar New Year as coronavirus hits Japan\u2019s Naked Man Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"One of the oldest \u2013 and oddest \u2013 festivals in Japan has fallen victim to the coronavirus.\r\rElders at the Saidaiji Kannonin Temple, in Okayama prefecture in central Japan, have opted to curtail an event that can trace its history back nearly 1,000 years and typically attracts upwards of 10,000 jostling men clad only in the \u201cfundoshi\u201d loincloths more commonly worn by sumo wrestlers.\r\rThe Saidaiji Eyo festival \u2013 also known as the Naked Man Festival \u2013 will be held on February 20, the temple has\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/week-asia\/lifestyle-culture\/article\/3118208\/fewer-moons-lunar-new-year-coronavirus-hits-japans\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the oldest \u2013 and oddest \u2013 festivals in Japan has fallen victim to the coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>Elders at the Saidaiji Kannonin Temple, in Okayama prefecture in central Japan, have opted to curtail an event that can trace its history back nearly 1,000 years&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":982,"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\/9668"}],"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\/982"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9669,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9668\/revisions\/9669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}