{"id":1771,"date":"2008-04-01T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-01T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2008\/04\/01\/ask-john-why-are-anime-theme-songs-sung-in-japanese\/"},"modified":"2008-04-01T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-01T14:00:00","slug":"ask-john-why-are-anime-theme-songs-sung-in-japanese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/ask-john-why-are-anime-theme-songs-sung-in-japanese\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask John: Why Are Anime Theme Songs Sung in Japanese?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Question:<\/strong><br \/>\nWhy are most Anime Opening and Closing themes are sung in Japoanese?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><strong>Answer:<\/strong><br \/>\nIn commemoration of April Fools Day, today&#8217;s question is genuine, and presented exactly as I received it.<\/p>\n<p>(Although it shouldn&#8217;t need explanation: Japanese songwriters and Japanese vocalists performing music for Japanese animation to be watched by Japanese viewers are naturally going to use Japanese language most of the time.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Why are most Anime Opening and Closing themes are sung in Japoanese?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ask-john"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}