{"id":1431,"date":"2023-11-18T12:46:53","date_gmt":"2023-11-18T12:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/the-man-teaching-japan-to-cry-bbc-reel\/"},"modified":"2023-11-18T12:46:53","modified_gmt":"2023-11-18T12:46:53","slug":"the-man-teaching-japan-to-cry-bbc-reel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/the-man-teaching-japan-to-cry-bbc-reel\/","title":{"rendered":"The man teaching Japan to cry &#8211; BBC REEL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ih1l-FR508o?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>Hidefumi Yoshida is a &#8216;tear teacher&#8217;. Through the use of sad films, emotional letters and beautiful scenery he claims to have helped 50,000 people to cry.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s part of a service in Japan called &#8216;rui-katsu&#8217;, which means &#8216;tear seeking&#8217;. Tear teachers like Hidefumi provide support and a safe space for people who struggle to express their emotions, often due to cultural stigmas.<\/p>\n<p>He says, &#8220;Many Japanese people hold back from crying. One of my roles is to help people get rid of their belief that they should not cry.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Video by Keith Bedford and Shiho Fukada<\/p>\n<p>#bbcreel #bbc #bbcnews<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ih1l-FR508o\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hidefumi Yoshida is a &#8216;tear teacher&#8217;. Through the use of sad films, emotional letters and beautiful scenery he claims to have helped 50,000 people to cry. It&#8217;s part of a service in Japan called &#8216;rui-katsu&#8217;, which means &#8216;tear seeking&#8217;. Tear teachers like Hidefumi provide support and a safe space for people who struggle to express [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":1432,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[15,17,16,18,19],"class_list":["post-1431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-humans","tag-bbc","tag-bbcnews","tag-bbcreel","tag-factual","tag-features","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}