{"id":6581,"date":"2008-02-05T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-05T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2008\/02\/05\/hatha-yoga-a-growing-trend-in-japan\/"},"modified":"2008-02-05T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-05T12:00:00","slug":"hatha-yoga-a-growing-trend-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2008\/02\/05\/hatha-yoga-a-growing-trend-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Hatha Yoga a Growing Trend in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.hinduonnet.com\/thehindu\/holnus\/001200802051652.htm\">www.hinduonnet.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">KOLKATA, INDIA, February 5, 2008: Thousands of Japanese citizens, from the age of 5 to 90 years, now regularly practice Yoga to keep their body fit and live a better life.<\/p>\n<p>Yoga exponent in Japan and founder\/director of Ghosh Yoga Institute, Jibananda Ghosh, said besides the average Japanese, sportspersons in the land of rising sun were enamored about the ancient Indian discipline.<\/p>\n<p>Ghosh and his wife Karuna, who had been teaching yoga in Japan for about last four decades, have now a number of branches in Japan. They wrote a number of books in Japanese to popularize Yoga, the latest book entitled &#8220;Indian Yoga Helps Release Stress.&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>www.hinduonnet.com KOLKATA, INDIA, February 5, 2008: Thousands of Japanese citizens, from the age of 5 to 90 years, now regularly,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}