{"id":26459,"date":"2021-01-08T00:58:09","date_gmt":"2021-01-07T15:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/07\/japans-pm-declares-state-of-emergency-in-tokyo-amid-covid-crisis"},"modified":"2021-01-08T00:58:09","modified_gmt":"2021-01-07T15:58:09","slug":"japans-pm-declares-state-of-emergency-in-tokyo-amid-covid-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=26459","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s PM declares state of emergency in Tokyo amid Covid crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Record number of coronavirus cases reported sparking fears hospitals will be overwhelmed<\/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><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a>\u2019s prime minister, Yoshihide Suga, has declared a state of emergency in the greater Tokyo area after a record number of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">coronavirus<\/a> cases were reported in the capital and across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Suga had come under pressure from his own health experts to take action, as the country battles a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/16\/honeymoon-over-for-yoshihide-suga-japan-pm-covid-third-wave\">third wave<\/a> of infections far more serious than those seen earlier in the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/07\/japans-pm-declares-state-of-emergency-in-tokyo-amid-covid-crisis\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Record number of coronavirus cases reported sparking fears hospitals will be overwhelmedCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageJapan\u2019s prime minister, Yoshihide Suga, has declared a state of emergency in the greater Tokyo area afte&#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":[41,1066,88,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-japan","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26459","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=26459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26461,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26459\/revisions\/26461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}