{"id":51850,"date":"2023-01-14T07:15:47","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T22:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/13\/japans-pm-vows-to-modernise-military-for-new-era-of-threats"},"modified":"2023-01-14T07:15:47","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T22:15:47","slug":"japans-pm-vows-to-modernise-military-for-new-era-of-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=51850","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s PM vows to modernise military for new era of threats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fumio Kishida outlines step change in US-Japan security alliance after White House meeting with Joe Biden<\/p>\n<p>Japan\u2019s prime minister, Fumio Kishida, has pledged to modernise his country\u2019s military alongside US president Joe Biden, warning that Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine had opened a dangerous new era and could embolden China.<\/p>\n<p>Welcoming Kishida at the White House, Biden hailed the Japanese government\u2019s announcement last month that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/16\/japan-approves-biggest-military-buildup-since-second-world-war-amid-china-fears\">it will double defence spending<\/a> over the next five years and develop new capabilities.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/13\/japans-pm-vows-to-modernise-military-for-new-era-of-threats\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fumio Kishida outlines step change in US-Japan security alliance after White House meeting with Joe BidenJapan\u2019s prime minister, Fumio Kishida, has pledged to modernise his country\u2019s military alongside US president Joe Biden, warning that Russia\u2019s inva&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1256,"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":[41,50,88,419,45,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-japan","category-russia","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-news","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\/51850","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\/1256"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51851,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51850\/revisions\/51851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}