{"id":72646,"date":"2025-06-26T21:24:43","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T12:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2025\/jun\/26\/bear-runway-yamagata-airport-japan-video"},"modified":"2025-06-26T21:24:43","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T12:24:43","slug":"bear-on-runway-halts-flights-at-japanese-airport-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=72646","title":{"rendered":"Bear on runway halts flights at Japanese airport \u2013\u00a0video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bear entered the runway area of Yamagata airport on Thursday, forcing a temporary shutdown and flight cancellations. The animal was found at the site at about 7am local time, then disappeared before returning, leading to the runway&#8217;s closure from 11.55am. Ten flights connecting the airport in Yamagata prefecture to Tokyo, Osaka, Sapporo and Nagoya were cancelled as a result of the unexpected visitor<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2025\/jun\/26\/bear-runway-yamagata-airport-japan-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bear entered the runway area of Yamagata airport on Thursday, forcing a temporary shutdown and flight cancellations. The animal was found at the site at about 7am local time, then disappeared before returning, leading to the runway&#8217;s closure from 11&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"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":[376,265,88,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-transport","category-animals","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\/72646","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72647,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72646\/revisions\/72647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}