{"id":5827,"date":"2010-06-02T17:29:01","date_gmt":"2010-06-02T22:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=5827"},"modified":"2011-01-20T14:07:43","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T19:07:43","slug":"new-japanese-p-m-quits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2010\/06\/02\/new-japanese-p-m-quits\/","title":{"rendered":"New Japanese P.M. quits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-5828\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/06\/Japanese-flag-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Japanese flag\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>Japan&#8217;s new prime minister, Yjkio Hatoyama, squandered a historic electoral mandate in only nine months and <a title=\"resigned\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601101&amp;sid=ado8bEJ7RFcA\" target=\"_blank\">resigned<\/a> &#8212; sparking a scramble by his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dpj.or.jp\/english\/\">Democratic Party of Japan<\/a> to find a new leader before July&#8217;s election.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ir\/\">International relations<\/a> Professor <a title=\"William Grimes\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ir\/faculty\/alphabetical\/grimes\/\" target=\"_blank\">William Grimes<\/a>, director of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/asian\/\">Center for the Study of Asia<\/a>, says Hatoyama was not prepared to create the new era of party-led politics that his party has promised when they finally ousted the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jimin.jp\/jimin\/english\/\">Liberal Democratic Party of Japan<\/a> which had been in power a half century with near-unbroken rule.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe best that we can hope is that this episode proves to be another step toward the creation of a new centrist party or coalition that can tackle Japan&#8217;s problems pragmatically and without pandering.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact William Grimes, 617-353-9420, <a href=\"mailto:wgrimes@bu.edu\">wgrimes@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan&#8217;s new prime minister, Yjkio Hatoyama, squandered a historic electoral mandate in only nine months and resigned &#8212; sparking a scramble by his Democratic Party of Japan to find a new leader before July&#8217;s election.\u00a0 International relations Professor William Grimes, director of the Center for the Study of Asia, says Hatoyama was not prepared to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491],"tags":[176,3011,3000,3001,202,2998,3002,3012,2999],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5827"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5827"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7721,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5827\/revisions\/7721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}