{"id":57968,"date":"2023-09-01T08:01:18","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T23:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/01\/tokyo-braces-for-another-big-one-on-100th-anniversary-of-deadly-quake"},"modified":"2023-09-01T08:01:18","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T23:01:18","slug":"tokyo-braces-for-another-big-one-on-100th-anniversary-of-deadly-quake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=57968","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo braces for another \u2018big one\u2019 on 100th anniversary of deadly quake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japan has learned key lessons from the 1923 earthquake that killed 105,000 people, but rapid growth of the capital has raised the stakes<\/p>\n<p>The earthquake that struck the Tokyo region two minutes before noon on 1 September 1923 was so powerful that it destroyed the central weather bureau\u2019s seismometers.<\/p>\n<p>Over almost two days, fires triggered by household gas burners, chemicals and overhead wires raged through the wooden buildings of eastern Tokyo\u2019s low-lying <em>shitamachi<\/em> neighbourhoods.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/01\/tokyo-braces-for-another-big-one-on-100th-anniversary-of-deadly-quake\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan has learned key lessons from the 1923 earthquake that killed 105,000 people, but rapid growth of the capital has raised the stakesThe earthquake that struck the Tokyo region two minutes before noon on 1 September 1923 was so powerful that it dest&#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":[41,263,88,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-earthquakes","category-japan","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\/57968","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=57968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57969,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57968\/revisions\/57969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}