{"id":88326,"date":"2020-05-15T11:11:20","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T05:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=15469"},"modified":"2020-05-15T11:11:20","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T05:41:20","slug":"explained-how-a-traditional-practice-is-coming-in-the-way-of-japans-covid-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/explained-how-a-traditional-practice-is-coming-in-the-way-of-japans-covid-response\/","title":{"rendered":"Explained: How a traditional practice is coming in the way of Japan\u2019s Covid response"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong>In Japan, a centuries-old ritual called \u201cHanko\u201d is being blamed for impeding social distancing efforts in tackling the novel coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Hanko:<\/strong>It is a personal stamp used in Japan that is equivalent to a signature in other countries and is an essential part of several transactions.<\/li><li><strong>Origin: <\/strong>The use of this traditional stamp can be traced back to almost two millennia when an emperor from China\u2019s Han dynasty gave a solid gold stamp to an envoy from Japan in the year 57 AD.<\/li><li><strong>Concerns:<\/strong> Japan has been aggressively promoting a work-from-home policy.However, centuries-old practice is causing employees to go to their workplace as companies prefer to keep their registered stamp at the office premises for security reasons.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: In Japan, a centuries-old ritual called \u201cHanko\u201d is being blamed for impeding social distancing efforts in tackling the novel coronavirus pandemic. Facts: Hanko:It is a personal stamp used in Japan that is equivalent to a signature in other countries and is an essential part of several transactions. Origin: The use of this traditional stamp&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/explained-how-a-traditional-practice-is-coming-in-the-way-of-japans-covid-response\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Explained: How a traditional practice is coming in the way of Japan\u2019s Covid response<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[164],"tags":[6022,2575],"class_list":["post-88326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-relations-daily-factly-articles","tag-hanko-practise","tag-japan","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704710157},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}