{"id":55660,"date":"2023-06-02T12:50:08","date_gmt":"2023-06-02T03:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/02\/japan-vending-machines-to-automatically-offer-free-food-if-earthquake-hits"},"modified":"2023-06-02T12:50:08","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T03:50:08","slug":"japan-vending-machines-to-automatically-offer-free-food-if-earthquake-hits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=55660","title":{"rendered":"Japan vending machines to automatically offer free food if earthquake hits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Machines in coastal city of Ako, are located in an area that experts say is vulnerable to a future powerful earthquake<\/p>\n<p>Japan has extended its natural disaster preparations to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/29\/no-contact-required-covid-fuels-vending-machine-revival-in-japan\">vending machines<\/a>, which will offer free food and drink in the event of a major earthquake or typhoon.<\/p>\n<p>Two machines have been installed in the western coastal city of Ako, located in a region that seismologists say is vulnerable to a powerful earthquake that is expected to hit the country\u2019s central and south-west pacific coast in the next few decades.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/02\/japan-vending-machines-to-automatically-offer-free-food-if-earthquake-hits\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Machines in coastal city of Ako, are located in an area that experts say is vulnerable to a future powerful earthquakeJapan has extended its natural disaster preparations to vending machines, which will offer free food and drink in the event of a major&#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":[41,263,311,88,1709],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-earthquakes","category-food","category-japan","category-natural-disasters"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55660","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=55660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55661,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55660\/revisions\/55661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}