{"id":1104,"date":"2016-01-06T19:54:51","date_gmt":"2016-01-06T11:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/06\/japans-first-girls-only-otaku-cafe-opens-in-osaka-and-boys-are-strictly-not-allowed\/"},"modified":"2016-01-06T19:54:51","modified_gmt":"2016-01-06T11:54:51","slug":"japans-first-girls-only-otaku-cafe-opens-in-osaka-and-boys-are-strictly-not-allowed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/06\/japans-first-girls-only-otaku-cafe-opens-in-osaka-and-boys-are-strictly-not-allowed\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan's first girls-only 'otaku' cafe opens in Osaka and boys are strictly not allowed"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mention the Japanese term ‘otaku’, and the image of a middle-aged anime fan or manga geek-boy might come to mind.<\/p>\n

But a new cafe, Ataraxia Cafe<\/a>, in Osaka’s Nipponbashi area wants to cater to Japan’s growing number of female otakus instead.<\/p>\n

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See also: Studio Ghibli will release its first foreign film, The Red Turtle, next year<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

In Japan, ‘otaku’ is used to describe a fan or someone who specialises in a particular topic, theme or hobby. This unique Japanese subculture once had a negative connotation<\/a> and was previously used to refer to an obsessive, withdrawn loner who had “taken leave of his senses”, according to Wired<\/em>‘s 1993 debut issue. Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n

More about Japan<\/a>, Akihabara<\/a>, Us World<\/a>, Osaka<\/a>, and Otaku<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mention the Japanese term ‘otaku’, and the image of a middle-aged anime fan or manga geek-boy might come to mind. But a new cafe, Ataraxia Cafe, in Osaka’s Nipponbashi area wants to cater to Japan’s growing number of female otakus … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[653,527,654,655,1,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-akihabara","category-japan","category-osaka","category-otaku","category-other","category-us-world"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}