{"id":533481,"date":"2026-03-11T14:45:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T14:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/533481\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T14:45:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T14:45:07","slug":"japan-marks-15th-anniversary-of-great-east-japan-earthquake-and-tsunami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/533481\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan marks 15th anniversary of Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Memorial services were held across the country on Wednesday to mark the 15th anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake, with a moment of silence observed for victims of the disaster at 2:46 p.m. \u2014 the time the earthquake, which caused tsunamis, occurred.<\/p>\n<p>The quake, which hit the Tohoku region in 2011, is the largest-scale earthquake to have occurred in Japan to date.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi attended a memorial service in Fukushima Prefecture held in memory of all those who lost their lives to the disaster, which also caused a meltdown at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Memorial services were held across the country on Wednesday to mark the 15th anniversary of the Great East&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":533482,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[264804,64,63,75,85192,153073,134683,130747,128,264803,9990],"class_list":["post-533481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-3-11","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-environment","tag-fukushima","tag-iwate","tag-miyagi","tag-sanae-takaichi","tag-science","tag-tohoku","tag-tsunami"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}