{"id":5996,"date":"2010-06-17T16:10:14","date_gmt":"2010-06-17T21:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=5996"},"modified":"2011-01-20T14:05:24","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T19:05:24","slug":"japans-ruling-party-calls-for-austerity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2010\/06\/17\/japans-ruling-party-calls-for-austerity\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s ruling party calls for austerity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-5997\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/06\/Japan-PM-Naoto-Kan-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Japan PM Naoto Kan\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>The newly elected Japanese ruling <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dpj.or.jp\/english\/\">Democratic Party<\/a> led by Prime Minister Naoto Kan (l.) has\u00a0<a title=\"pledged\" href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/news\/2010-06-17\/japan-ruling-party-shifts-focus-to-debt-cuts-as-election-looms.html\" target=\"_blank\">pledged<\/a> to rein that nation&#8217;s huge debt, the world&#8217;s largest, calling for drastic tax reform including a hiking the sales tax.\u00a0 Public opinion polls show Japanese citizens prepared for tax increases and budget cuts if they can reduce the risk of a Greek-style economic meltdown.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ir\/\">International relations<\/a> Professor <a title=\"Thomas Berger\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ir\/faculty\/alphabetical\/berger\/\" target=\"_blank\">Thomas Berger<\/a>, an authority on East Asian political culture, says the contrast between the Japanese public and its willingness to sacrifice to solve economic problems and\u00a0people in other advanced industrial countries &#8212; notably France &#8212; is striking.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThere are, of course, many challenges that lie ahead in the months to come.\u00a0 Still, while it may be too early to say it is \u2018morning in Japan,\u2019 there may be some glimmerings on the horizon.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact Thomas Berger, 617-353-5351, <a href=\"mailto:tuberger@bu.edu\">tuberger@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The newly elected Japanese ruling Democratic Party led by Prime Minister Naoto Kan (l.) has\u00a0pledged to rein that nation&#8217;s huge debt, the world&#8217;s largest, calling for drastic tax reform including a hiking the sales tax.\u00a0 Public opinion polls show Japanese citizens prepared for tax increases and budget cuts if they can reduce the risk of [&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":[176,3000,3195,3196,648,202,3084,3030,3193,3192,3194,2943],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5996"}],"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=5996"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7699,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5996\/revisions\/7699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}