{"id":3463,"date":"2013-09-13T09:19:01","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T13:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/?p=3463"},"modified":"2013-09-13T09:19:01","modified_gmt":"2013-09-13T13:19:01","slug":"japan-does-not-have-a-vigorous-tradition-of-satire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2013\/09\/13\/japan-does-not-have-a-vigorous-tradition-of-satire\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;&#8230;Japan does not have a vigorous tradition of satire.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>France has made Japan angry <a href=\"http:\/\/newsonjapan.com\/html\/newsdesk\/article\/99008.php\">again<\/a>, this time with insensitive <a href=\"http:\/\/au.news.yahoo.com\/world\/a\/-\/world\/18898828\/lighten-up-french-mag-tells-japan-in-fukushima-row\/\">political cartoons<\/a> about Fukushima.<br \/>\nWith radiation levels still <a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2013\/09\/04\/world\/asia\/japan-fukushima-crisis\/index.html\">spiking<\/a>, and the government only reticently admitting to constant leaks, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.japancrush.com\/2013\/stories\/did-abe-lie-to-olympic-committee-about-fukushima-safety.html\">some<\/a> are questioning the legitimacy of PM Abe&#8217;s insistence that Tokyo is safe. With decisions not to <a href=\"http:\/\/enformable.com\/2013\/09\/japan-elects-prosecute-former-tepco-executives-government-officials-handling-fukushima-disaster\/\">prosecute<\/a> anyone involved in the disaster, it seems that <a href=\"http:\/\/thediplomat.com\/a-new-japan\/2011\/05\/23\/the-problem-with-amakudari\/\">amakudari<\/a> is, in Japan as in most other countries, still alive and well.<\/p>\n<div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Metafilter?a=TAjTYCXMvfQ:l6ApQGGn36c:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Metafilter?i=TAjTYCXMvfQ:l6ApQGGn36c:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>via MetaFilter http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/131904\/Japan-does-not-have-a-vigorous-tradition-of-satire<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>France has made Japan angry again, this time with insensitive political cartoons about Fukushima. With radiation levels still spiking, and the government only reticently admitting to constant leaks, some are questioning the legitimacy of PM Abe&#8217;s insistence that Tokyo is safe. With decisions not to prosecute anyone involved in the disaster, it seems that amakudari &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2013\/09\/13\/japan-does-not-have-a-vigorous-tradition-of-satire\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;&#8230;Japan does not have a vigorous tradition of satire.&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[1031,6,1032,1033],"class_list":["post-3463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-feedly","tag-ifttt","tag-recently-read","tag-saved-for-later"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2skW4-TR","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}