{"id":13857,"date":"2018-09-04T17:24:20","date_gmt":"2018-09-04T17:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=13857"},"modified":"2018-09-04T17:24:20","modified_gmt":"2018-09-04T17:24:20","slug":"japan-slammed-by-most-powerful-storm-in-decades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=13857","title":{"rendered":"Japan slammed by most powerful storm in decades"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"51.347553325\">\n<p>Typhoon Jebi is the latest\u00a0<span>extreme weather event to besiege Japan this summer following heavy rains,\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/subjects\/landslide.html\">landslides<\/a><span>, floods and a record-breaking heatwave that cumulatively killed hundreds of people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Japan<span>\u00a0issued evacuation orders for more than one million people\u00a0<span>as powerful wind and rain ploughed into the country&#8217;s west on Tuesday, killing at least eight people.\u00a0<\/span><\/span>The Fire and Disaster Management Agency said 150 others were injured.<\/p>\n<p><span><span>Wind gusts of up to 208 km\/h were recorded in one part of Shikoku island, with forecasts as high as 216 km\/h.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The typhoon inundated the region&#8217;s international airport and blew a tanker into a bridge, disrupting land and air travel and leaving thousands stranded.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>More than 1.6 million households were without power in Osaka, Kyoto, and four nearby prefectures.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Typhoon Jebi is the latest\u00a0extreme weather event to besiege Japan this summer following heavy rains,\u00a0landslides, floods and a record-breaking heatwave that cumulatively killed hundreds of people. Japan\u00a0issued evacuation orders for more than one million people\u00a0as powerful wind and rain ploughed into the country&#8217;s west on Tuesday, killing at least eight people.\u00a0The Fire and Disaster Management&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":13858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}