{"id":16954,"date":"2020-04-07T20:21:06","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T11:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/07\/japan-shinzo-abe-declares-state-of-emergency-over-coronavirus"},"modified":"2020-04-07T20:21:06","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T11:21:06","slug":"japan-declares-state-of-emergency-over-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=16954","title":{"rendered":"Japan declares state of emergency over coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese leader Shinzo Abe announces month of restrictions and unveils record stimulus package<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/apr\/07\/coronavirus-live-news-boris-johnson-intensive-care-uk-donald-trump-america-us-praying-recovery-latest-updates\">Coronavirus \u2013latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Japan\u2019s prime minister, Shinzo Abe, has declared a month-long state of emergency in response to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">coronavirus pandemic<\/a>, and unveiled a record stimulus package aimed at steering the world\u2019s third-largest economy through its biggest crisis since the war.<\/p>\n<p>Abe told a televised news conference a recent sharp rise in Covid-19 cases in Tokyo and other urban areas had forced him to rethink Japan\u2019s approach towards stemming the outbreak.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/07\/japan-shinzo-abe-declares-state-of-emergency-over-coronavirus\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese leader Shinzo Abe announces month of restrictions and unveils record stimulus packageCoronavirus \u2013latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageJapan\u2019s prime minister, Shinzo Abe, has declared a month-long state of emergency in response to the&#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":[41,1069,88,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-japan","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16954","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=16954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16955,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16954\/revisions\/16955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}