{"id":333061,"date":"2025-12-06T01:28:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T01:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/333061\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T01:28:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T01:28:11","slug":"japan-downgrades-tokyo-quake-damage-estimate-to-534bn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/333061\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan downgrades Tokyo quake damage estimate to $534bn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/economy\/natural-disasters\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Natural disasters<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">However, disruptions to sewage, electricity and other infrastructure to be more severe<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/0\/8.jpeg\" alt=\"20251205N Tokyo Earthquake Drills REUTERS\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Rescue workers pull a life-size doll\u00a0trapped under debris during an earthquake disaster drill\u00a0in Tokyo. \u00a9 Reuters<\/p>\n<p>SACHIKO KAWAHARA and KEITO NAKAOKA<\/p>\n<p>December 6, 2025 03:49 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; The damage caused by a significant\u00a0earthquake should it strike\u00a0the heart of Tokyo would\u00a0cause significantly less damage than was previously estimated,\u00a0according to an unpublished\u00a0government report, Nikkei has learned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Natural disasters However, disruptions to sewage, electricity and other infrastructure to be more severe Rescue workers pull a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333062,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[168448,24402,168446,192,168447,3471,36765,79,17205],"class_list":["post-333061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-534bn","tag-damage","tag-downgrades","tag-environment","tag-estimate","tag-japan","tag-quake","tag-science","tag-tokyo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}