{"id":8766,"date":"2019-09-09T11:10:14","date_gmt":"2019-09-09T02:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/09\/typhoon-faxai-batters-tokyo-causing-evacuations-blackouts-and-transport-chaos"},"modified":"2019-09-09T12:32:55","modified_gmt":"2019-09-09T03:32:55","slug":"typhoon-faxai-batters-tokyo-causing-evacuations-blackouts-and-transport-chaos-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=8766","title":{"rendered":"Typhoon Faxai batters Tokyo, causing evacuations, blackouts and transport chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One death reported and nearly a million households without power as Japanese capital bears brunt of 216km\/h winds <\/p>\n<p>A powerful typhoon with record-breaking winds and heavy rain has battered the Tokyo region, sparking evacuation warnings for tens of thousands and causing widespread blackouts and transport disruption.<\/p>\n<p>Government spokesman Yoshihide Suga told reporters that he had received a report of one death and damage caused by toppling trees and flying objects. He said some 900,000 power failures were also reported.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/09\/typhoon-faxai-batters-tokyo-causing-evacuations-blackouts-and-transport-chaos\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One death reported and nearly a million households without power as Japanese capital bears brunt of 216km\/h winds A powerful typhoon with record-breaking winds and heavy rain has battered the Tokyo region, sparking evacuation warnings for tens of thous&#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":[41,88,157,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-natural-disasters-and-extreme-weather","category-north-korea"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8766","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=8766"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8793,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8766\/revisions\/8793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}