{"id":35567,"date":"2026-05-15T23:13:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T20:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/?p=35567"},"modified":"2026-05-15T23:13:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T20:13:06","slug":"rearming-japan-ambition-constraints-and-limits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/?p=35567","title":{"rendered":"Rearming Japan: ambition, constraints, and limits"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"573\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/aa-Cover-etpj06s4dta1er2lth78ip8d77-20221220205201.Medi_.jpeg?fit=1024%2C573&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-rss-image-size size-rss-image-size wp-post-image\" alt=\"\"><\/figure>\n<p>Originally published by Pacific Forum, this article is republished with permission. In barely half a year, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has\u00a0pushed\u00a0Japan\u2019s defense policy into unfamiliar territory. The FY2026 main defense budget has\u00a0reached\u00a09.04 trillion yen (approximately US$58 billion), with total security-related spending at roughly 10.6 trillion yen,\u00a0at about\u00a01.9% of GDP. The 2% threshold, long treated as [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/asiatimes.com\/2026\/05\/rearming-japan-ambition-constraints-and-limits\/\">Rearming Japan: ambition, constraints, and limits<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/asiatimes.com\/\">Asia Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published by Pacific Forum, this article is republished with permission. In barely half a year, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has\u00a0pushed\u00a0Japan\u2019s defense policy into unfamiliar territory. The FY2026 main defense&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35568,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-without-rubric"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}