{"id":10008,"date":"2023-02-15T18:34:24","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T18:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=10008"},"modified":"2023-02-15T18:34:24","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T18:34:24","slug":"japans-plan-to-ramp-up-military-spending-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=10008","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s plan to ramp up military spending, explained"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n\n&#8220;Japan\u2019s new security posture will increase the nation\u2019s military budget by 56 percent, from about 27.47 trillion yen&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/Spotlight\/Comment\/Why-a-record-budget-is-just-the-first-step-to-boost-Japan-s-defense\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">over five years<\/a>&nbsp;to about 43 trillion yen (an increase fromabout $215 billion to $324 billion as of market close on Friday). Historically, Japan has kept security spending low due to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/08\/29\/world\/asia\/korea-missile-japan-pacifism.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">its constitutional commitment to avoid war<\/a>, but the country does have a defense budget and has maintained the Self-Defense Forces since 1954.&#8221;<br>&#8230;<br>&#8220;doubts remain as to whether Kishida can convince the Japanese people to agree to commit both the financial and human capital that his proposed scale-up would require.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/world\/2023\/1\/15\/23555805\/japans-military-buildup-us-china-north-korea\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/world\/2023\/1\/15\/23555805\/japans-military-buildup-us-china-north-korea<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Japan\u2019s new security posture will increase the nation\u2019s military budget by 56 percent, from about 27.47 trillion yen over five years to about 43 trillion yen (an increase from about $215 billion to $324 billion as of market close on Friday). Historically, Japan has kept security spending low due to its constitutional commitment to avoid war, but the country does have a defense budget and has maintained the Self-Defense Forces since 1954.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;doubts remain as to whether Kishida can convince the Japanese people to agree to commit both the financial and human capital that his proposed scale-up would require.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[314,420,259],"class_list":["post-10008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-international-relations","tag-japan","tag-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10009,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10008\/revisions\/10009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}