{"id":3431,"date":"2014-12-02T11:10:48","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T02:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/?p=3431"},"modified":"2014-12-02T11:10:48","modified_gmt":"2014-12-02T02:10:48","slug":"south-china-morning-post-december-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/?p=3431","title":{"rendered":"South China Morning Post (December 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em;\">Moody\u2019s downgraded Japan&#8217;s credit rating by one notch from Aa3 for to A1. \u201cDespite the rating cut, Moody&#8217;s noted that Japan was not in a disastrous situation.\u201d The Post explains that \u201cJapan, which once led the world in innovation, is facing stiff competition from emerging nations including China, while a falling number of working-age people is shrinking its tax base even as soaring ranks of seniors strain the public purse.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moody\u2019s downgraded Japan&#8217;s credit rating by one notch from Aa3 for to A1. \u201cDespite the rating cut, Moody&#8217;s noted that Japan was not in a disastrous situation.\u201d The Post explains that \u201cJapan, which once led the world in innovation, is facing stiff competition from emerging nations including China, while a falling number of working-age people [&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":[6,420,95,776,4319,324,4,67,3593,4320],"class_list":["post-3431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-news","tag-china","tag-competition","tag-credit-rating","tag-downgrade","tag-emerging-nations","tag-innovation","tag-japan","tag-moodys","tag-seniors","tag-tax-base"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3432,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3431\/revisions\/3432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}