{"id":2100,"date":"2019-11-13T17:44:18","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T08:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gmec.co.jp\/eng\/?p=2100"},"modified":"2020-03-31T15:48:04","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T06:48:04","slug":"thinking-about-a-large-fire-at-shuri-castle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gmec.co.jp\/en\/notice\/thinking-about-a-large-fire-at-shuri-castle\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire at Okinawa\u2019s Shuri Castle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> Early 31 October 2019, a devastating fire has destroyed most of Shuri Castle, 500-year-old world heritage site on the southern island of Okinawa, Japan. The compound\u2019s main, north and south buildings were all destroyed by the fire. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>We believe that sudden loss of the world heritage site caused many people including Okinawa residents much pain. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p> This is the fifth time of the castle burned down following year; 1453, 1660, 1709, and 1945. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Even though humans cannot stop natural disaster such as earthquakes, we can still be committed to daily disaster management in order to minimise the impacts or risks involved in such disasters. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p> At GMEC, we all share the knowledge that we learnt from visiting Fukuoka Citizens\u2019 Disaster Management Centre and had an in-house group work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gmec.co.jp\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/NEWS-20191112-01.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2103\" width=\"282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gmec.co.jp\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/NEWS-20191112-01.png 302w, https:\/\/www.gmec.co.jp\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/NEWS-20191112-01-300x199.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 302px) 100vw, 302px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"282\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gmec.co.jp\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/NEWS-20191112-02.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2102\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p> Also, AEDs were installed at Osaka and Tokyo Offices, which counted a total of 5 AEDs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>We will keep raising our awareness of disaster management to be able to effectively and promptly respond to times of emergency. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early 31 October 2019, a devastating fire has destroyed most of Shuri Castle, 500-year-old world heritage site [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notice"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gmec.co.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gmec.co.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gmec.co.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmec.co.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmec.co.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2100"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmec.co.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2197,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmec.co.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2100\/revisions\/2197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gmec.co.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmec.co.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmec.co.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}