{"id":20308,"date":"2011-03-23T13:30:49","date_gmt":"2011-03-23T17:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/fx\/?p=20308"},"modified":"2011-03-23T13:30:49","modified_gmt":"2011-03-23T17:30:49","slug":"japanese-govt-expects-cost-of-earthquake-tsunami-to-be-as-much-as-308-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2011\/03\/23\/japanese-govt-expects-cost-of-earthquake-tsunami-to-be-as-much-as-308-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Gov&#8217;t Expects Cost of Earthquake, Tsunami to be as much as $308 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Japanese government said Wednesday that the economic cost of the  earthquake on March 11 and tsunami could be as much as $308 billion,  which is more than double the cost of the Kobe earthquake that happened  in 1995.Construction and related costs are expected to total 16 trillion  to 25 trillion yen, according to reports. The estimate is focused on  infrastructure-related damages, as well as damages to homes, factories  and other buildings. However, it does not take into account losses  related to the nuclear-power plant.The report also said that the  disaster is expected to knock about half a percentage point off economic  growth in the next fiscal year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Japanese government said Wednesday that the economic cost of the earthquake on March 11 and tsunami could be as much as $308 billion, which is more than double the cost of the Kobe earthquake that happened in 1995&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}