{"id":2755,"date":"2014-03-22T00:53:32","date_gmt":"2014-03-21T15:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/?p=2755"},"modified":"2014-03-24T10:34:03","modified_gmt":"2014-03-24T01:34:03","slug":"financial-times-march-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/?p=2755","title":{"rendered":"Financial Times (March 20)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThe Japanese government is trying to encourage the country\u2019s companies to increase the amount they invest. This is like trying to push water uphill. Japan as a whole and in terms of business already invests too much.\u201d As a percentage of GDP, Japan already invests more than the \u00a0U.S., Britain, France or Germany, but \u201cthe massive inefficiency of Japan\u2019s capital investment has meant that the return on capital has also been extremely poor,\u201d indeed the lowest of the G5 countries.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Japan, Government, Investment, U.S., Britain, France, Germany, Inefficiency, Capital, Return, G5<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe Japanese government is trying to encourage the country\u2019s companies to increase the amount they invest. This is like trying to push water uphill. Japan as a whole and in terms of business already invests too much.\u201d As a percentage of GDP, Japan already invests more than the \u00a0U.S., Britain, France or Germany, but \u201cthe [&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":[],"class_list":["post-2755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2755","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=2755"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2761,"href":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2755\/revisions\/2761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}