{"id":30907,"date":"2021-04-14T13:52:43","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T04:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/14\/second-chance-clock-stopped-after-japan-tsunami-starts-ticking-a-decade-later"},"modified":"2021-04-14T13:52:43","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T04:52:43","slug":"second-chance-clock-stopped-after-japan-tsunami-starts-ticking-a-decade-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=30907","title":{"rendered":"Second chance: clock stopped after Japan tsunami starts ticking a decade later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The century-old temple clock has come back to life when an aftershock of the 2011 quake hit the region<\/p>\n<p>For almost 10 years, the clock hanging in Bunshun Sakano\u2019s temple was a reminder of the day nature\u2019s force came close to destroying his community.<\/p>\n<p>The clock, which is thought to be about 100 years old, stopped ticking after the north-east coast of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a> was struck by an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan-earthquake-and-tsunami\">earthquake and tsunami<\/a> that killed more than 18,000 people on 11 March 2011.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/14\/second-chance-clock-stopped-after-japan-tsunami-starts-ticking-a-decade-later\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The century-old temple clock has come back to life when an aftershock of the 2011 quake hit the regionFor almost 10 years, the clock hanging in Bunshun Sakano\u2019s temple was a reminder of the day nature\u2019s force came close to destroying his community.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":[41,88,1189,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-tsunamis","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\/30907","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=30907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30908,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30907\/revisions\/30908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}