{"id":2160,"date":"2013-07-19T07:06:51","date_gmt":"2013-07-18T22:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/?p=2160"},"modified":"2013-07-19T07:06:51","modified_gmt":"2013-07-18T22:06:51","slug":"bloomberg-july-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/?p=2160","title":{"rendered":"Bloomberg (July 18)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japan needs to mend relationships with its neighbors. After the upper house Diet elections, \u201cLDP leaders would be wise to focus their resources on overcoming opposition to the most difficult structural reforms. That doesn\u2019t mean Japan can\u2019t take measures it deems necessary to bolster its defenses, such as increasing its military budget, or even making cosmetic changes such as renaming its military the \u2018National Defense Forces.\u2019 Such decisions should be based on strategic concerns, not a desire to fire up patriotic fervor. They should be communicated to Beijing quietly but transparently, well in advance.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan needs to mend relationships with its neighbors. After the upper house Diet elections, \u201cLDP leaders would be wise to focus their resources on overcoming opposition to the most difficult structural reforms. That doesn\u2019t mean Japan can\u2019t take measures it deems necessary to bolster its defenses, such as increasing its military budget, or even making [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[131,6,2335,873,790,1018,4,1830,446,1245,929,2302],"class_list":["post-2160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-news","tag-asia","tag-china","tag-communication","tag-defense","tag-diet","tag-elections","tag-japan","tag-ldp","tag-military","tag-relationships","tag-resources","tag-structural-reforms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}