{"id":60881,"date":"2024-01-02T15:55:48","date_gmt":"2024-01-02T06:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/gallery\/2024\/jan\/02\/japans-deadly-earthquakes-spark-fires-and-destroy-buildings-in-pictures"},"modified":"2024-01-02T15:55:48","modified_gmt":"2024-01-02T06:55:48","slug":"japans-deadly-earthquakes-spark-fires-and-destroy-buildings-in-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=60881","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s deadly earthquakes spark fires and destroy buildings \u2013 in pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese prime minister Fumio Kishida says the country is facing a \u2018battle against time\u2019 to find people affected by a series of major earthquakes that reportedly killed at least 48 people, injured dozens and sparked fires that destroyed homes.<\/p>\n<p>Police and local authorities early on Tuesday reported cases of bodies being pulled from the rubble of collapsed buildings while others remained trapped.<\/p>\n<p>A thousand army personnel were dispatched to the worst-hit area in Japan\u2019s relatively remote Noto peninsula but rescue operations have been hindered by badly damaged and blocked roads<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/02\/japan-earthquakes-tsunami-alert-dropped-but-residents-told-not-to-return-to-homes\">Race to find people trapped under Japan earthquake rubble as death toll rises<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/gallery\/2024\/jan\/02\/japans-deadly-earthquakes-spark-fires-and-destroy-buildings-in-pictures\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese prime minister Fumio Kishida says the country is facing a \u2018battle against time\u2019 to find people affected by a series of major earthquakes that reportedly killed at least 48 people, injured dozens and sparked fires that destroyed homes.Police an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":327,"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":[41,263,88,1709],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-earthquakes","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\/60881","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\/327"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60882,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60881\/revisions\/60882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}