{"id":42686,"date":"2013-10-16T16:39:45","date_gmt":"2013-10-16T12:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=42686"},"modified":"2013-10-16T16:39:45","modified_gmt":"2013-10-16T12:39:45","slug":"typhoon-wipha-hits-tokyo-area-killing-at-least-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=42686","title":{"rendered":"Typhoon Wipha hits Tokyo area, killing at least 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least 17 people have died and hundreds of flights have been canceled as Typhoon Wipha pummeled the Tokyo area on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>A local government official in Oshima, a small island 120 km (75 miles) south of Tokyo, said that a majority of the people died after heavy rain triggered flooding and landslides that blocked roads and crushed houses.<\/p>\n<p>Rescuers were unable to reach about some people in the area hit by landslides.<\/p>\n<p>More than 500 domestic and international flights were canceled at Tokyo&#8217;s Narita and Haneda airports and the national rail operator halted bullet train services in central and northern Japan.<\/p>\n<p>The typhoon is moving north along the Pacific coast of Japan and is expected to reach the northernmost island of Hokkaido by late Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), the main electricity supplier in Tokyo and central Japan, said blackouts affected more than 56,000 households.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 17 people have died and hundreds of flights have been canceled as Typhoon&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":42684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,155,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-other-countries","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}