{"id":12865,"date":"2011-06-13T12:00:21","date_gmt":"2011-06-13T11:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=12865"},"modified":"2011-06-11T14:23:45","modified_gmt":"2011-06-11T13:23:45","slug":"back-from-the-dead-astonishing-pictures-show-how-japan-is-recovering-just-three-months-after-tsunami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2011\/06\/back-from-the-dead-astonishing-pictures-show-how-japan-is-recovering-just-three-months-after-tsunami\/","title":{"rendered":"Back from the Dead: Astonishing Pictures Show How Japan Is Recovering Just Three Months after Tsunami"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Japan&#8217;s economy shrank 0.9 percent in the first quarter but recovery is expected between July and September.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Just three months ago Japan was plunged into chaos after a cataclysmic earthquake sent a merciless tsunami crashing through towns and cities up and down the east coast.<\/p>\n<p>The unforgiving tide of water obliterated tens of thousands of buildings, devouring almost anything in its path. Thousands of people died and hundreds of bodies have never been recovered.<\/p>\n<p>The heart-breaking images of families desperately searching for loved ones amid the rubble of their homes sent shockwaves around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Now, three months on, these images show the Japanese people remain undaunted by the havoc nature has wreaked on their homeland as step by step they rebuild their nation.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2001984\/Japan-tsunami-earthquake-Pictures-recovery-3-months-later.html\" > <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2001984\/Japan-tsunami-earthquake-Pictures-recovery-3-months-later.html\" >PLEASE CLICK TO SEE THE PICTURES IN THE ORIGINAL \u2013 dailymail.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three months on, these images show the Japanese people remain undaunted by the havoc nature has wreaked on their homeland as step by step they rebuild their nation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}