{"id":66138,"date":"2024-08-09T14:36:21","date_gmt":"2024-08-09T05:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/09\/japan-pm-fumio-kishida-asia-visit-cancelled-earthquake"},"modified":"2024-08-09T14:36:21","modified_gmt":"2024-08-09T05:36:21","slug":"japans-pm-cancels-overseas-trip-after-experts-issue-megaquake-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=66138","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s PM cancels overseas trip after experts issue \u2018megaquake\u2019 warning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Japan Meteorological Agency has issued its first-ever warning of the risk of a huge earthquake along the Pacific coast<\/p>\n<p>Japan\u2019s prime minister, Fumio Kishida, has cancelled a visit to central Asia this weekend after experts warned that the risk of a \u201cmegaquake\u201d occurring off the country\u2019s Pacific coast had increased following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/08\/earthquake-japan-tsunami-warning\">Thursday\u2019s magnitude 7.1 earthquake<\/a> in the south-west.<\/p>\n<p>Kishida, who is battling low approval ratings and faces challenges to his leadership in a ruling party presidential election next month, announced his decision at a press conference on Friday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/09\/japan-pm-fumio-kishida-asia-visit-cancelled-earthquake\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Japan Meteorological Agency has issued its first-ever warning of the risk of a huge earthquake along the Pacific coastJapan\u2019s prime minister, Fumio Kishida, has cancelled a visit to central Asia this weekend after experts warned that the risk of a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":344,"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-66138","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\/66138","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\/344"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66139,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66138\/revisions\/66139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}