{"id":140301,"date":"2021-04-26T13:22:12","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T04:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=140301&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2021-04-26T13:22:12","modified_gmt":"2021-04-26T04:22:12","slug":"skull-leaper-eiji-oita-city-assembly-member-to-fight-for-his-rights","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/skull-leaper-eiji-oita-city-assembly-member-to-fight-for-his-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Skull Leaper Eiji, Oita City Assembly Member To Fight for His Rights\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Skull Leaper Eiji, an Oita City assembly member, and masked wrestler, is protesting against the city assembly for refusing him to appear on their website and newsletters wearing his signature mask. The 52-year-old assembly member has worn his mask during his last three successful election campaigns. However, the assembly continues to prohibit him from wearing his mask at assembly meetings. Skull Leaper insists his human rights are being violated and declared intentions to file a formal complaint on the matter soon. <\/span><b>Source: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sankei.com\/affairs\/news\/210422\/afr2104220021-n1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sankei<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \/\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/mainichi.jp\/articles\/20210422\/k00\/00m\/040\/415000c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mainichi<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-140302\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/skull.png?resize=900%2C788&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"788\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/skull.png?w=900&amp;ssl=1 900w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/skull.png?resize=300%2C263&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/skull.png?resize=768%2C672&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Disclaimer<\/i><\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Fukuoka Now posts summaries of Kyushu area news for those who cannot read Japanese. These are mostly summaries of publicly posted news from the Japanese media. Errors might occur during translation, those are ours. Images are sourced separately and are for illustrative purposes only. Use<\/span><\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/contact\/\"> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">this form<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to send feedback. Please share links to this page, it helps us.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More Kyushu news on<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FukuokaNow\"> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Twitter<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/fukuokanews\/\"> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Instagram<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/fukuokanow\"> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Facebook<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skull Leaper Eiji, an Oita City assembly member, and masked wrestler, is protesting against the city assembly for refusing him to appear on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29305,"featured_media":140302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-140301","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-oita-city","news-category-politics","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/140301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29305"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140301"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}