{"id":38123,"date":"2021-10-18T13:32:19","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T04:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/18\/fukushima-japans-new-pm-wont-delay-release-of-contaminated-water-into-ocean"},"modified":"2021-10-18T13:32:19","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T04:32:19","slug":"fukushima-japans-new-pm-wont-delay-release-of-contaminated-water-into-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=38123","title":{"rendered":"Fukushima: Japan\u2019s new PM won\u2019t delay release of contaminated water into ocean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fumio Kishida said every effort would be made to reassure local people that disposing of the water in the Pacific was safe<\/p>\n<p>Japan\u2019s new prime minister, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/29\/fumio-kishida-safe-pair-of-hands-for-japan-ruling-party\">Fumio Kishida<\/a>, has said that there can be no delay to plans to release contaminated water from the wrecked <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/fukushima\">Fukushima<\/a> Daiichi nuclear power plant into the sea, despite opposition from fishers and neighbouring countries.<\/p>\n<p>Kishida, who made his first trip to the plant at the weekend since becoming prime minister last month, said every effort would be made to reassure local people that disposing of the water in the Pacific Ocean was safe.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/18\/fukushima-japans-new-pm-wont-delay-release-of-contaminated-water-into-ocean\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fumio Kishida said every effort would be made to reassure local people that disposing of the water in the Pacific was safeJapan\u2019s new prime minister, Fumio Kishida, has said that there can be no delay to plans to release contaminated water from the wre&#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":[41,65,980,88,846,570],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-environment","category-fukushima","category-japan","category-japan-disaster","category-nuclear-power"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38123","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=38123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38124,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38123\/revisions\/38124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}