{"id":49707,"date":"2022-10-28T14:13:17","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T05:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/28\/japan-considering-buying-us-tomahawk-cruise-missiles"},"modified":"2022-10-28T14:13:17","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T05:13:17","slug":"japan-considering-buying-us-tomahawk-cruise-missiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=49707","title":{"rendered":"Japan considering buying US Tomahawk cruise missiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Purchase likely to prove controversial, as Tokyo seeks to counter growing regional threats<\/p>\n<p>Japan is looking into buying US-developed Tomahawk cruise missiles as it seeks to counter growing regional threats, including from North Korea, the government has said.<\/p>\n<p>Any purchase would probably prove to be controversial, in a nation whose military is not officially recognised under its post-second world war constitution.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/28\/japan-considering-buying-us-tomahawk-cruise-missiles\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Purchase likely to prove controversial, as Tokyo seeks to counter growing regional threatsJapan is looking into buying US-developed Tomahawk cruise missiles as it seeks to counter growing regional threats, including from North Korea, the government has&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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":[41,88,40,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-north-korea","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49707","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49708,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49707\/revisions\/49708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}