{
  "id": 16576747,
  "title": "Japan's Pillow Wars Become Competitive Team Sport",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/26/japans-pillow-wars-become-competitive-team-sport",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-26T07:56:48.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "News On Japan",
    "slug": "news-on-japan",
    "url": "https://newsonjapan.com/article/151140.php"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Pillow fighting, once a familiar pastime on Japanese school trips, has evolved into a competitive team sport, with players dressed in traditional yukata competing on tatami mats under unusual rules that include a call of \"The teacher is coming!\" to freeze opponents for 10 seconds. (News On Japan)",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}