{"id":191918,"date":"2009-06-07T05:26:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-07T10:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/06\/07\/japan-continues-moves-back-toward-militarism\/"},"modified":"2009-06-07T05:26:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-07T10:26:00","slug":"japan-continues-moves-back-toward-militarism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/06\/07\/japan-continues-moves-back-toward-militarism\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan Continues Moves Back Toward Militarism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They have been ramping up their defense spending, continue to be tin-eared toward considerations of their atrocities in Asia in WWII, have a growing, and increasingly violent, militarist movement,  a move toward a first strike &#8220;defensive&#8221; posture, and now they are <a href=\"http:\/\/web02.aviationweek.com\/publication\/awst\/loggedin\/AvnowStoryDisplay.do?fromChannel=awst&amp;pubKey=awst&amp;channel=awst&amp;issueDate=2009-06-01&amp;story=xml\/awst_xml\/2009\/06\/01\/AW_06_01_2009_p25-143916.xml&amp;headline=Japan+Plans+to+Abandon+Arms+Export+Ban\">looking to rescind their ban on exporting weapons<\/a> (<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">paid subscription required<\/span>), which would mean growth for their defense industry, and it was the juxtaposition of the weapon making industrial conglomerates and politics that to a large degree pushed their militarism in the 1930s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They have been ramping up their defense spending, continue to be tin-eared toward considerations of their atrocities in Asia in WWII, have a growing, and increasingly violent, militarist movement, a move toward a first strike &#8220;defensive&#8221; posture, and now they are looking to rescind their ban on exporting weapons (paid subscription required), which would mean &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1005,1008,964],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-defense-procurement","category-foreign-relations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191918"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}