{"id":829559,"date":"2026-07-28T18:08:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T18:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/829559\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T18:08:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T18:08:12","slug":"japan-earthquake-reports-of-multiple-deaths-after-earthquake-strikes-japan-as-it-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/829559\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan earthquake: Reports of multiple deaths after earthquake strikes Japan \u2013 as it happened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">If you&#8217;re just joining us, here&#8217;s the latest info we&#8217;ve got on\u00a0 the earthquake in Japan:<\/p>\n<p>A major, 7.1-magnitude earthquake has struck Japan, toppling buildings and sparking firesOne of the areas of most concern is the Aeon Mall shopping centre in\u00a0Kumamoto in Japan&#8217;s southwest, where authorities say a &#8220;considerable number&#8221; of people are feared deadPictures show extensive damage to the building, which had only re-opened a month agoJapanese public broadcaster NHK says between 20 and 30 workers in the shopping centre cannot be contactedMultiple people are also unaccounted for at a factory in Yatsushiro city where the tip of a chimney fell down, NHK reportedMany roads were closed and high-speed shinkansen train services were suspended in the region affected by Tuesday&#8217;s quake<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Stay with us as we bring you the latest developments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you&#8217;re just joining us, here&#8217;s the latest info we&#8217;ve got on\u00a0 the earthquake in Japan: A major,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":829560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,121095,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-829559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-japan-earthquake","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829559","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=829559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/829560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=829559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=829559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}