{"id":53651,"date":"2026-05-31T11:08:51","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T11:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/japans-defence-minister-denies-militarism-and-criticises-chinas-huge-arsenal\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T11:08:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T11:08:51","slug":"japans-defence-minister-denies-militarism-and-criticises-chinas-huge-arsenal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/japans-defence-minister-denies-militarism-and-criticises-chinas-huge-arsenal\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s defence minister denies militarism and criticises China&#8217;s &#8216;huge arsenal&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 HooNV\">Japan has been steadily increasing its defence budget, setting spending records for 12 consecutive years. Its latest budget, approved in December by its cabinet, is for more than 9 trillion yen ($57bn, \u00a342bn) &#8211; moving the country closer to its target of spending 2% of its GDP on the military.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cp8p4ejy8ppo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan has been steadily increasing its defence budget, setting spending records for 12 consecutive years. Its latest budget, approved in December by its cabinet, is for more than 9 trillion yen ($57bn, \u00a342bn) &#8211; moving the country closer to its target of spending 2% of its GDP on the military. Source link<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53652,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53653,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53651\/revisions\/53653"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}