{"id":153686,"date":"2025-12-16T16:57:43","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T23:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=153686"},"modified":"2025-12-16T16:57:43","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T23:57:43","slug":"japan-to-give-2-5-million-in-emergency-aid-to-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2025\/12\/16\/japan-to-give-2-5-million-in-emergency-aid-to-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan to give $2.5 million in emergency aid to Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Japanese government decided to extend an emergency grant of $2.5 million to cyclone-hit Sri Lanka, Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi said Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The emergency grant will be used to provide humanitarian assistance through international aid agencies, including food and other daily necessities.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Landslides and floods caused by a cyclone that hit the island nation in late November have killed more than 600 people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Motegi told a press conference that Japan intends to continue providing seamless support to our long-time friend, Sri Lanka, to ensure the earliest possible recovery and reconstruction of the affected areas.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The minister also said a disaster relief medical team returned from Sri Lanka earlier Tuesday after handling 1,250 treatments in about two weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source: KYODO NEWS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8211;Agencies<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The Japanese government decided to extend an emergency grant of $2.5 million to cyclone-hit Sri Lanka, Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi said Tuesday. The emergency grant will be used to provide humanitarian assistance through international aid agencies, including food and other daily necessities.&nbsp; Landslides and floods caused by a cyclone that hit the island [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153687,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153686\/revisions\/153687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}