{"id":804793,"date":"2020-03-02T09:10:35","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T16:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=960435"},"modified":"2020-03-02T09:10:35","modified_gmt":"2020-03-02T16:10:35","slug":"the-national-cancel-japan-concerts-over-coronavirus-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/the-national-cancel-japan-concerts-over-coronavirus-fears\/","title":{"rendered":"The National Cancel Japan Concerts Over Coronavirus Fears"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/the-national-cancel-japan.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/the-national\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-national\" data-tag=\"the-national\">The National<\/a> have canceled two upcoming concerts in Tokyo as concerns about the spread of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/coronavirus\/\" id=\"auto-tag_coronavirus\" data-tag=\"coronavirus\">coronavirus<\/a> continue to mount.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Although the band didn\u2019t mention the virus by name in a note announcing the decision, they said they were calling off their March 17th and 18th gigs \u201cin the interest of public safety.\u201d Ticket refunds will be available at the point of purchase from March 3rd through March 31st.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cWe look forward to returning in the future and performing for our friends in Japan,\u201d the National said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"12.448863636364\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Much to our disappointment, in the interest of public safety our March 17+18 dates in Tokyo have been cancelled. Refunds will be available at the point of purchase from March 3 to March 31, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>We look forward to returning in the future and performing for our friends in Japan. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VHS6h0Y600\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/VHS6h0Y600<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The National (@TheNational) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheNational\/status\/1234388047225118720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">March 2, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">The National are the latest act to cancel shows in Asia as a result of the coronavirus outbreak. Last week, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/green-day-postpone-asia-tour-coronavirus-959490\/\">Green Day postponed<\/a> their Asian tour, while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/bts-cancel-map-of-the-soul-korea-shows-coronavirus-959472\/\">BTS nixed<\/a> several hometown shows in Seoul, South Korea. Prior to that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/stormzy-asia-concerts-cancel-coronavirus-952389\/\">Stormzy postponed<\/a> five scheduled shows in Asia, while New Order and Khalid have also called off gigs in the region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">While the increasing severity of the outbreak has finally prompted more Western acts to cancel shows, the coronavirus has had a much <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/asisa-concerts-canceled-coronavirus-outbreak-947489\/\">larger impact<\/a> on top Asian acts. Among the artists to cancel shows are major K-pop acts like Taeyeon, Winner, NCT, and GOT7, as well as Cantopop superstar Andy Lau.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/the-national-japan-concerts-cancel-coronavirus-960435\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National have canceled two upcoming concerts in Tokyo as concerns about the spread of coronavirus continue to mount. Although the band didn\u2019t mention the virus by name in a note announcing the decision, they said they were calling off their March 17th and 18th gigs \u201cin the interest of public safety.\u201d Ticket refunds will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-804793","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-20 05:20:48","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}