{"id":82168,"date":"2013-01-08T15:34:04","date_gmt":"2013-01-08T06:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=32098"},"modified":"2016-04-01T03:01:47","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T18:01:47","slug":"nokonoshima-may-be-recognized-as-a-remote-island","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/nokonoshima-may-be-recognized-as-a-remote-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Nokonoshima May be Recognized as a Remote Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nokonoshima, in Hakata Bay, is one of 23 islands in Japan that could become officially recognised as a remote island if current registration criteria are changed. The federal government will come to a decision on changes by summer. Japan currently has 254 registered remote islands. The criteria for authorizing remote islands has not changed since 1964: distance from the mainland to the island must be over 5km (inland sea) or 10km (open sea), the island must have a population over 100, and less than 3 ferries visiting per day. However this criteria will be reviewed, to combat decreasing population on small islands. Once authorized as a remote island, inhabitants of Nokonoshima will receive a subsidy, and public enterprises will be reevaluated.  Source: Nishinippon Shimbun Jan 7.  (Similar story here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nishinippon.co.jp\/nnp\/item\/341998\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.nishinippon.co.jp\/nnp\/item\/341998<\/a>) <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/1_005_03.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/1_005_03-e1357626828343.jpg?resize=638%2C401\" alt=\"\" title=\"1_005_03\" width=\"638\" height=\"401\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-32099\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nokonoshima, in Hakata Bay, is one of 23 islands in Japan that could become officially recognised as a remote island if current registration criteria are changed. The federal government will come to a decision on changes by summer. Japan currently has 254 registered remote islands. The criteria for authorizing remote islands has not changed since 1964: distance from the mainland to the island must be over 5km (inland sea) or 10km (open sea), the island must have a population over 100, and less than 3 ferries visiting per day. However this criteria will be reviewed, to combat decreasing population on small islands. Once authorized as a remote island, inhabitants of Nokonoshima will receive a subsidy, and public enterprises will be reevaluated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6391,"featured_media":32099,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-82168","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-category-society","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/82168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6391"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82168"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}