{"id":15382,"date":"2020-03-04T12:32:33","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T03:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/04\/coronavirus-japan-to-cancel-fukushima-anniversary-ceremony-reports"},"modified":"2020-03-04T12:32:33","modified_gmt":"2020-03-04T03:32:33","slug":"coronavirus-japan-to-cancel-tsunami-anniversary-ceremony-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=15382","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: Japan to cancel tsunami anniversary ceremony \u2013 reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Efforts to contain the spread of Covid-19 set to put paid to tribute marking March 2011 earthquake, tsunami and meltdown disaster, says NHK<\/p>\n<p>Japan is to cancel a ceremony to mark the anniversary next week of the March 2011 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan-earthquake-and-tsunami\"> triple disaster<\/a> on its north-east coast, as part of government-led efforts to contain the spread of the coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>The national ceremony was due to be held in Tokyo on 11 March, exactly nine years after a powerful earthquake and tsunami killed more than 18,000 people and triggered a triple meltdown at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/fukushima\">Fukushima<\/a> Daiichi nuclear power plant.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/04\/coronavirus-japan-to-cancel-fukushima-anniversary-ceremony-reports\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Efforts to contain the spread of Covid-19 set to put paid to tribute marking March 2011 earthquake, tsunami and meltdown disaster, says NHKJapan is to cancel a ceremony to mark the anniversary next week of the March 2011  triple disaster on its north-e&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1069,980,88,846,1189],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-fukushima","category-japan","category-japan-disaster","category-tsunamis"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15383,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15382\/revisions\/15383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}