{"id":92500,"date":"2019-06-23T06:43:07","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T13:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/japanese-sign-up-for-dna-matchmaking-as-country-faces-demographic-crisis"},"modified":"2019-06-23T06:43:07","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T13:43:07","slug":"japanese-sign-up-for-dna-matchmaking-as-country-faces-demographic-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/japanese-sign-up-for-dna-matchmaking-as-country-faces-demographic-crisis","title":{"rendered":"Japanese sign up for DNA matchmaking as country faces demographic crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/japanese-sign-up-for-dna-matchmaking-as-country-faces-demographic-crisis.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The scene resembles a typical blind speed-dating event: 13 women and 13 men, seated on either side of a bamboo screen in an upmarket Tokyo restaurant, are chatting in pairs on a strictly timed three-minute rotation.<\/p>\n<p>But the doctor hovering on the fringes and the scientific documents held in the participant\u2019s hands, however, offer a hint that this is no ordinary dating event: for everyone attending has undergone a DNA test in a bid to find their best romantic match.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to the world of DNA matchmaking. Forget hobbies, professions, ages or nose sizes: one critical new criteria for finding the perfect partner was recently added to Japan\u2019s fast-paced dating world, with the launch of a new service that promises to find love based on genetic compatibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The scene resembles a typical blind speed-dating event: 13 women and 13 men, seated on either side of a bamboo screen in an upmarket Tokyo restaurant, are chatting in pairs on a strictly timed three-minute rotation. But the doctor hovering on the fringes and the scientific documents held in the participant\u2019s hands, however, offer a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}