{"id":611051,"date":"2026-09-25T05:04:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T05:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/611051\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T05:04:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T05:04:17","slug":"tokyo-considers-littering-fine-to-tackle-growing-trash-issue-in-popular-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/611051\/","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo considers littering fine to tackle growing trash issue in popular areas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tokyo Metropolitan Government is considering introducing a fine, via an ordinance, to punish littering in the capital, aiming to combat an increasing amount of litter in popular areas as record-breaking numbers of tourists continue to visit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will collaborate with experts to explore effective measures, including an ordinance, to maintain a clean and comfortable urban environment,\u201d Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike said in her policy speech at the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly last Friday.<\/p>\n<p>A panel of waste management experts under the metropolitan government met last month to look into action that can be taken to tackle the problem, at Koike\u2019s request.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tokyo Metropolitan Government is considering introducing a fine, via an ordinance, to punish littering in the capital,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":611052,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[273,111,139,69,147,256635,301101,11081,10097,74982],"class_list":["post-611051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-shibuya","tag-shinjuku","tag-tokyo","tag-tourism","tag-yuriko-koike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/611052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}