{"id":3900,"date":"2020-11-26T14:45:06","date_gmt":"2020-11-26T14:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=3900"},"modified":"2020-11-26T14:45:06","modified_gmt":"2020-11-26T14:45:06","slug":"japans-new-prime-minister-has-just-one-year-to-save-the-country-from-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=3900","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s new prime minister has just one year to save the country from crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“As of October 21, Japan \u2014 a country of around 127 million people \u2014 had more than 90,000 confirmed cases of the coronavirus and 1,600 deaths<\/a>. That\u2019s not bad compared to much of the world, but the pandemic caused the nation\u2019s economy to shrink by around 28 percent<\/a> between April and June, the largest contraction since the country started keeping records in 1980.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s bad news on its own, but Japan was already dealing with a years-long economic slump due in part to an aging workforce<\/a>. It\u2019s a trend Suga\u2019s keenly aware he must reverse, and doing so starts with minimizing the virus\u2019s spread. \u201cReviving the economy remains the top priority of the administration,\u201d Suga told reporters<\/a> just after becoming prime minister on September 16.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/21525743\/japan-suga-yoshihide-prime-minister-coronavirus-economy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“As of October 21, Japan \u2014 a country of around 127 million people \u2014 had more than 90,000 confirmed cases of the coronavirus and 1,600 deaths. That\u2019s not bad compared to much of the world, but the pandemic caused the nation\u2019s economy to shrink by around 28 percent between April and June, the largest contraction since the country started keeping records in 1980.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s bad news on its own, but Japan was already dealing with a years-long economic slump due in part to an aging workforce. It\u2019s a trend Suga\u2019s keenly aware he must reverse, and doing so starts with minimizing the virus\u2019s spread. \u201cReviving the economy remains the top priority of the administration,\u201d Suga told reporters just after becoming prime minister on September 16.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[588,409,483,420],"class_list":["post-3900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-corona","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-japan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3900","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=3900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3901,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3900\/revisions\/3901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}