{"id":21762,"date":"2018-11-09T12:22:39","date_gmt":"2018-11-09T12:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=21762"},"modified":"2018-11-09T12:22:39","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T12:22:39","slug":"bts-performance-in-japan-canceled-amid-anger-over-atomic-bomb-shirt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=21762","title":{"rendered":"BTS performance in Japan canceled amid anger over atomic bomb shirt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Tokyo (CNN)<\/cite>One of Japan&#8217;s biggest television stations has canceled a performance of the massively popular <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/09\/24\/asia\/bts-un-korea-intl\/index.html\">K-pop group BTS<\/a> amid allegations that one of the band members wore a shirt that appears to show the atomic bombing of Nagaski.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The seven-member boy band was scheduled to appear on TV Asahi&#8217;s flagship music program, Music Station, Friday night. The station said in a statement it chose not to feature BTS after speaking with the record company about why BTS band member Jimin had chosen to wear the shirt. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">&#8220;We deeply apologize the viewers who were looking forward their performance,&#8221; the station said. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tokyo (CNN)One of Japan&#8217;s biggest television stations has canceled a performance of the massively popular K-pop group BTS amid allegations that one of the band members wore a shirt that appears to show the atomic bombing of Nagaski.The seven-member boy band was scheduled to appear on TV Asahi&#8217;s flagship music program, Music Station, Friday night.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":21763,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}