{"id":1327,"date":"2007-08-05T23:37:39","date_gmt":"2007-08-05T15:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1327"},"modified":"2009-04-25T20:07:32","modified_gmt":"2009-04-25T12:07:32","slug":"1322-of-lesson-from-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1327","title":{"rendered":"[1322] Of lesson from Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The recent Turkish election, which saw the conservative AKP gaining control of the Turkish legislature with a strong majority, taught the world the <a href=\"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1312\">importance of a healthy economy<\/a>. The recent Japanese upper house election unmistakably rings the same bell:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The vote was a rejection of Mr Abe&#8217;s priorities, which emphasise ideological issues of nationhood, such as instilling patriotic education, rewriting the pacifist constitution and expanding the role of the Japanese armed forces. Many Japanese are not opposed to such measures, but they rate them far below pocketbook concerns: a shortage of decent jobs for the young; stagnant wages; rising health-care costs; uncertain pensions; and swathes of the depopulated countryside missing out on the economic recovery that has taken hold in Tokyo and other big cities. Mr Abe&#8217;s blunder, contend Richard Katz and Peter Ennis from the Oriental Economist, a newsletter, was to think that the recovery would take care of these concerns by itself. [<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/world\/asia\/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9587749\" target=\"_blank\">Keeping his head just above water<\/a><\/em>. The  Economist.  August 2 2007]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What lesson do you think the upcoming Malaysian election will teach us?<\/p>\n<p>Parties like DAP and PKR better memorize this lesson to heart before it is too late.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recent Turkish election, which saw the conservative AKP gaining control of the Turkish legislature with a strong majority, taught the world the importance of a healthy economy. The recent Japanese upper house election unmistakably rings the same bell: The vote was a rejection of Mr Abe&#8217;s priorities, which emphasise ideological issues of nationhood, such [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[584,321],"class_list":["post-1327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-politics-government","tag-japan","tag-turkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1327"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3810,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327\/revisions\/3810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}