{"id":39433,"date":"2021-12-03T03:07:28","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T18:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/02\/russia-sends-defence-missiles-to-pacific-islands-claimed-by-japan"},"modified":"2021-12-03T03:07:28","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T18:07:28","slug":"russia-sends-defence-missiles-to-pacific-islands-claimed-by-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39433","title":{"rendered":"Russia sends defence missiles to Pacific islands claimed by Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Moscow defence ministry posts video of missile system arriving on Matua in Kuril island chain<\/p>\n<p>Russia has deployed coastal defence missile systems near Pacific islands also claimed by Japan, a move intended to underline Moscow\u2019s firm stance in the dispute.<\/p>\n<p>The Bastion missile systems were moved to Matua, a deserted volcanic island in the middle of the Kuril island chain. Japan claims four of the southernmost islands.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/02\/russia-sends-defence-missiles-to-pacific-islands-claimed-by-japan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moscow defence ministry posts video of missile system arriving on Matua in Kuril island chainRussia has deployed coastal defence missile systems near Pacific islands also claimed by Japan, a move intended to underline Moscow\u2019s firm stance in the disput&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2147,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,221,88,874,419,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-europe","category-japan","category-pacific-islands","category-russia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2147"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39434,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39433\/revisions\/39434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}