{"id":69554,"date":"2025-02-19T15:40:43","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T06:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/feb\/19\/japan-onsen-hot-spring-worker-deaths-fukushima"},"modified":"2025-02-19T15:40:43","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T06:40:43","slug":"three-resort-workers-die-in-suspected-gas-poisoning-near-hot-spring-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=69554","title":{"rendered":"Three resort workers die in suspected gas poisoning near hot spring in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hydrogen sulphide gives Takayu Onsen its unmistakable sulphurous smell but can be dangerous if inhaled in high enough concentrations<\/p>\n<p>Three people have died in north-east <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a> in an accident that authorities suspect is linked to the inhalation of deadly gas found in the country\u2019s famed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/18\/crocodiles-could-spell-the-end-of-japans-tradition-of-nude-mixed-bathing\">hot spring resorts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Japanese media said the three men, who all worked at a nearby hotel, were found in a mountainous area near the city of Fukushima on Tuesday. They were discovered in an area of Takayu Onsen (hot spring) where high concentrations of hydrogen sulphide, a toxic byproduct of volcanic hot springs, have been recorded.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/feb\/19\/japan-onsen-hot-spring-worker-deaths-fukushima\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hydrogen sulphide gives Takayu Onsen its unmistakable sulphurous smell but can be dangerous if inhaled in high enough concentrationsThree people have died in north-east Japan in an accident that authorities suspect is linked to the inhalation of deadly&#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":[41,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69554","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=69554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69555,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69554\/revisions\/69555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}