{"id":44986,"date":"2022-05-30T09:00:13","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T00:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/30\/japan-china-defence-ukraine-war-russia"},"modified":"2022-05-30T09:00:13","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T00:00:13","slug":"china-in-mind-japan-mulls-beefing-up-military-as-ukraine-war-rings-alarm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=44986","title":{"rendered":"\u2018China in mind\u2019: Japan mulls beefing up military as Ukraine war rings alarm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Country could double spending and acquire \u2018first-strike\u2019 capability in shift away from defensive postwar posture<\/p>\n<p>Weeks after he became Japan\u2019s prime minister last year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/29\/fumio-kishida-safe-pair-of-hands-for-japan-ruling-party\">Fumio Kishida<\/a> pulled on a dark green bomber jacket, the hinomaru flag emblazoned on his sleeve, and climbed into a tank.<\/p>\n<p>Official photos show him displaying an awkward smile for his audience at Camp Asaka \u2013 the men and women of the the country\u2019s Self-Defence Forces \u2013 an indication, perhaps, that postwar Japanese leaders and military hardware have not always been easy bedfellows.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/30\/japan-china-defence-ukraine-war-russia\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Country could double spending and acquire \u2018first-strike\u2019 capability in shift away from defensive postwar postureWeeks after he became Japan\u2019s prime minister last year, Fumio Kishida pulled on a dark green bomber jacket, the hinomaru flag emblazoned on &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"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":[41,50,88,74,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-japan","category-taiwan","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\/44986","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\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44987,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44986\/revisions\/44987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}