{
  "id": 6559597,
  "title": "You Can Now Take Home a Real Japanese Manhole Cover for National Sewer Day",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/10/you-can-now-take-home-a-real-japanese-manhole-cover-for-national",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-09-10T07:31:06.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Tokyo Weekender",
    "slug": "tokyo-weekender",
    "url": "https://www.tokyoweekender.com/japan-life/japan-sewer-day-manhole-cover-sale/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "On September 10, while most of Japan goes about the ordinary business of living without thinking too hard about what happens after a toilet flushes, the country will observe one of the stranger entries on its crowded calendar of commemorative days: Sewer Day. In Hirakata, a city in Osaka Prefecture, the local waterworks bureau is […] The post You Can Now Take Home a Real Japanese Manhole Cover…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "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."
}