{"id":21766,"date":"2020-08-17T13:45:08","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T04:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/17\/global-report-covid-japan-hit-by-biggest-gdp-fall-in-40-years-australia-suffers-deadliest-day"},"modified":"2020-08-17T13:45:08","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T04:45:08","slug":"global-report-japan-hit-by-biggest-gdp-fall-in-40-years-australia-suffers-deadliest-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21766","title":{"rendered":"Global report: Japan hit by biggest GDP fall in 40 years, Australia suffers deadliest day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand postpones general election; US coronavirus death toll passes 170,000; Italy closes nightclubs for three weeks<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest 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 economy has been hit by the worst economic contraction in its modern history as the coronavirus pandemic closed businesses and buffeted consumer spending. It came as <strong>New Zealand<\/strong> postponed its general election for a month as its Auckland Covid cluster grew and <strong>Australia <\/strong>suffered its deadliest day of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Gross domestic product in<strong> Japan<\/strong> shrank a record 7.8% in April-June, which equates to an annualised rate of 27.8%, marking the biggest decline since comparable data became available in 1980.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/17\/global-report-covid-japan-hit-by-biggest-gdp-fall-in-40-years-australia-suffers-deadliest-day\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand postpones general election; US coronavirus death toll passes 170,000; Italy closes nightclubs for three weeksCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageJapan\u2019s economy has been hit by the worst economic contraction in its m&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":378,"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":[43,50,1069,526,451,88,1405,56,783,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia-news","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-france","category-italy","category-japan","category-mexico","category-new-zealand","category-singapore","category-us-news","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\/21766","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\/378"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21767,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21766\/revisions\/21767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}